Back from a five year break... it's Corona Quarantine blogging time!
I read an article about how journaling about our experiences during the Corona-induced Quarantine could be a valuable exercise for us and for future people who wonder how things were day to day during this historically interesting period. So here we go.
Today is March 22nd. It's a Sunday. We've been under a statewide "stay-home" order since Thursday night. (It's a good thing the old fridge died last Tuesday instead of after the stay-home order.) It's a bit surreal for me, since tomorrow should have been the start of my spring break anyway, but the fear of leaving the house is real. I have to go out tomorrow to buy food to replace what we lost when the fridge died, and because we're starting to run low of some staples, and I'm more worried than I've ever been about potentially being in the airspace of someone who is asymptomatic but contagious.
We're usually homebodies around here, so the stay-home order has just intensified that tendency. Still, we've felt it disrupt our lives in big ways. We had to cancel our trip to Disneyland last Wednesday (it would have been during Rae's spring break). I spent a lot of yesterday (was that yesterday? I think it was...) video chatting with my closest friends when we would usually have just driven over to one of their houses.
I'm trying not to pressure myself to do too much all at once. I want to read, I want to get some writing done, but not going to push myself yet. This is still new. Today, for example, we moved the TV and the laundry baskets around so Rae could see the screen more easily. I organized my nightstand. I hung all of my fancy hats on the wall, which I've been meaning to do since we moved in five years ago. I ran a load of bedding through the wash. I cooked breakfast and dinner and made sure the dishwasher got run. I watched a class worth of voicethread presentations that my students had been working on before any of this started and figured out how to use Canvas to leave them a video comment so they remember what I look like and I humanize my course a bit now that we're all online until the end of the semester. I walked the dog. I took a shower. We watched the Disney Tangled series and Star Wars Clone Wars.
Tomorrow, barring another major appliance failure or other emergency, I'll brave the grocery stores, grade a few more presentations, and hopefully get to work on the projects I have gnawing on my brain.
Today is March 22nd. It's a Sunday. We've been under a statewide "stay-home" order since Thursday night. (It's a good thing the old fridge died last Tuesday instead of after the stay-home order.) It's a bit surreal for me, since tomorrow should have been the start of my spring break anyway, but the fear of leaving the house is real. I have to go out tomorrow to buy food to replace what we lost when the fridge died, and because we're starting to run low of some staples, and I'm more worried than I've ever been about potentially being in the airspace of someone who is asymptomatic but contagious.
We're usually homebodies around here, so the stay-home order has just intensified that tendency. Still, we've felt it disrupt our lives in big ways. We had to cancel our trip to Disneyland last Wednesday (it would have been during Rae's spring break). I spent a lot of yesterday (was that yesterday? I think it was...) video chatting with my closest friends when we would usually have just driven over to one of their houses.
I'm trying not to pressure myself to do too much all at once. I want to read, I want to get some writing done, but not going to push myself yet. This is still new. Today, for example, we moved the TV and the laundry baskets around so Rae could see the screen more easily. I organized my nightstand. I hung all of my fancy hats on the wall, which I've been meaning to do since we moved in five years ago. I ran a load of bedding through the wash. I cooked breakfast and dinner and made sure the dishwasher got run. I watched a class worth of voicethread presentations that my students had been working on before any of this started and figured out how to use Canvas to leave them a video comment so they remember what I look like and I humanize my course a bit now that we're all online until the end of the semester. I walked the dog. I took a shower. We watched the Disney Tangled series and Star Wars Clone Wars.
Tomorrow, barring another major appliance failure or other emergency, I'll brave the grocery stores, grade a few more presentations, and hopefully get to work on the projects I have gnawing on my brain.