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Monday monday
1. I got my progressives on Friday, and adjusting to them has not been as difficult as I feared. I can see so much better for driving. I haven't quite gotten the hang of looking at things close up when I'm holding them in my hands, but sitting at a desk and reading and writing, everything's in the right spot.
Annoyingly, though, I didn't realize that the lenses were scratched when I picked them up. I didn't wear them home on Friday because I didn't want to adjust to new lenses while driving; by the time I got home and realized, they were closed. I had to drive up there again today and show them, but they were super cool about it and ordered me replacement ones.
2. I wrote one of my pens dry and filled it with my new Monteverde brown sugar ink, and it is glorious. Oh, the shading! It is making me extremely happy to write with this ink.
3. Josh feels so much better. At this point he's mostly just tired. We go back to work tomorrow, and I expect it to kick his ass. He'll be in the office from 7:30 to 3:15. Cross your fingers for him.
4. I am going to experiment with being in the office more for a little while. In the fall, I set up my office hours to avoid campus as much as possible, but I literally had zero students come to my office the entire semester, I never saw any of my colleagues, and the only person I had any interaction with (masked/distanced) is a colleague in our bubble. So, I'm not worried about being in my office as a possible COVID issue anymore.
I still technically only have to be on campus the two days I'm teaching in person, but I'm going to go on campus the other days and see how that goes. I'm starting to wonder if the whole being here all the time is affecting my mental health. I mean, I like it and have decided I would happily work from home for forever, but I'm wondering if it's not as good for me as I think it is. I'm also wondering if part of my tiredness and listlessness is related; sometimes when I start feeling like I have no energy, it's because I've been laying around too much not doing anything. So we'll see what happens.
5. My brother got diagnosed with COVID today. He's okay so far. He is convinced he had it back in March; he had an inexplicable nine day fever back then. He didn't get tested at the time. Not sure if he just didn't want to or if tests weren't available. He says this time is much better than the first. Prayers and good vibes appreciated here as well.
Annoyingly, though, I didn't realize that the lenses were scratched when I picked them up. I didn't wear them home on Friday because I didn't want to adjust to new lenses while driving; by the time I got home and realized, they were closed. I had to drive up there again today and show them, but they were super cool about it and ordered me replacement ones.
2. I wrote one of my pens dry and filled it with my new Monteverde brown sugar ink, and it is glorious. Oh, the shading! It is making me extremely happy to write with this ink.
3. Josh feels so much better. At this point he's mostly just tired. We go back to work tomorrow, and I expect it to kick his ass. He'll be in the office from 7:30 to 3:15. Cross your fingers for him.
4. I am going to experiment with being in the office more for a little while. In the fall, I set up my office hours to avoid campus as much as possible, but I literally had zero students come to my office the entire semester, I never saw any of my colleagues, and the only person I had any interaction with (masked/distanced) is a colleague in our bubble. So, I'm not worried about being in my office as a possible COVID issue anymore.
I still technically only have to be on campus the two days I'm teaching in person, but I'm going to go on campus the other days and see how that goes. I'm starting to wonder if the whole being here all the time is affecting my mental health. I mean, I like it and have decided I would happily work from home for forever, but I'm wondering if it's not as good for me as I think it is. I'm also wondering if part of my tiredness and listlessness is related; sometimes when I start feeling like I have no energy, it's because I've been laying around too much not doing anything. So we'll see what happens.
5. My brother got diagnosed with COVID today. He's okay so far. He is convinced he had it back in March; he had an inexplicable nine day fever back then. He didn't get tested at the time. Not sure if he just didn't want to or if tests weren't available. He says this time is much better than the first. Prayers and good vibes appreciated here as well.