When Sis called Sunday, it had been nearly a month since we'd last talked, so a chunk of our conversation was about the contrast between what we'd thought we might get done during our confinement and how we're actually spending our time. She's doing more watching and less reading than she thought, but that doesn't surprise me because I always ( Read more... )

I see dead people ( Read more... )

There are a couple of reassuring memes aimed at folks in my position circulating on social media right now. One reads "It's okay not to be productive in the midst of a pandemic," the other "You're not 'working from home', you're sheltering at home while you try to get some work done." Viewing the situation that way does make me feel a bit better ( Read more... )

It is very odd living under a regime of self-imposed scarcity. I'm not forgoing eating out and making my leftovers stretch to four or more meals because I'm trying to save money or because of shortages or because I'm too weak to walk. There's a grocery a block away that fully stocked and staffed and working its usual hours, and I'm simply choosing ( Read more... )

Every day, I go to my favourite of the pandemic counter websites that have sprung up and look to see how the numbers have changed since the day or the morning before: Any big jumps? Is Illinois holding steady at sixth place among the Fifty States? Is the curve flattening at all? Now one of those anonymous numbers is a person I know ( Read more... )

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My reading feels like it's barely proceeding, mainly because I'm dividing my attention so much. I'm still reading Un nos ola leuad (having finally pushed through the central chapter in Literary Welsh), but I'm lucky to finish a couple of pages a night. I added my Hawai'ian textbook to my Goodreads to encourage me to work through it, but I seldom ( Read more... )

I want to remember yesterday as the day I pulled my head out of my ass regarding COVID-19. Up until then, I'd been following the news but not really assimilating it. I certainly hadn't come to terms with how much this will disrupt things going forward. Literally my biggest concern on Tuesday was whether the date I was planning with a cute boy for a ( Read more... )

Over a decade ago, I wrote a post detailing my competencies in foreign languages.
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So a funny thing happened at work this week ( Read more... )