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Been another while
Mar. 18th, 2020 10:23 pmI have been really bad about getting my blog posts in these days. It has been a time, no doubt. I was idly thinking recently about how these posts are ostensibly for me to keep track of myself, and maybe I should be more explicit about talking to myself in the future. Like...I write a lot of this stuff without any context, so maybe I'll be doing Future Me a disservice, assuming that I'll have any idea what's going on in Current Me's present. So...not much today about work tracking, except to say that this'll be the first time in I don't even know how long that I'm hitting my dailies (and even then I'm cheating a bit on the inbox just since it's so out of control). I basically did nothing on the work-work side of things, taking today as an administrative day to just try and catch up with my paperwork backlog and inbox and stuff. Which I did not do, by the way; I only worked like a half day today and spent the other half watching TV. In my defense, it was watching TV with T, but still.
Anyway. So what's going on in the world these days is the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak/pandemic/quarantine etc. I guess that's another thing about trying to write for a future audience; I don't know how things will come to be known. But anyway. I dunno...the last couple weeks have largely been a blur. Of note is that I visited C some days back (Friday?) as like a belated birthday trip. Yesterday (Tuesday) I visited MU, which might have been pushing my (or somebody's, anyway) luck a bit, but we really wanted to get together. Things are looking pretty serious, though; it may only be a matter of time before quarantine is mandated, but for now, voluntary self-isolation is looking like the thing. People are wilding around here trying to stock up. There's all kinds of shortages: toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bottled water. People are just in full on crisis mode. I'm trying not to panic, but I am basically living a life of constant low-grade stress these days, which really isn't helping me keep my head in the game.
Things are shutting down. NYC has already shut down restaurants and bars and all kinds of gathering places: gyms, theaters...stuff like that. We know shit is real because Broadway has gone dark...casinos have closed...I mean it takes a lot to shut down places like that. For now grocery stores are still open, and restaurants can still do takeout and delivery and such, so it's not, like...bunker time or anything. (Yet?) But therapy is out for a while. Also I found out today my storage place shut down, so that's annoying, since I finally started getting around to going through some stuff and clearing the place out. Oh, well. Kinda like jobhunting. I'm sure that's not exactly going to be facilitated by a global shutdown. But the bills remain. I dunno...shit is all fucked up.
So that's a lot of why I haven't been posting lately. I haven't been running at 100% for weeks now. I'll just note that Monday was hella productive. I put my head down and got a whole bunch of shit done that day. Sure, it was stuff I should have worked on over the weekend but didn't, so a lot of that is on me. I mean, having a long day, that was on me. But I did it, I did a bunch of work and I hit my deadlines, so I felt pretty good about that. I just gotta bring that energy over to long term stuff, I guess.
Anyway. So...half an admin day today, half goof-off. Should be better tomorrow.
OH! I forgot the important bit. T was home today. She's going into the office tomorrow, but after that will be home for weeks, probably, since they're shutting down grand jury activity for a while. So that's gonna be an interesting time for me for sure. Gonna have to adapt to new working conditions if T's gonna be hanging around the house during the day now. :) So anyway...T being home is why I spent half the day watching TV with her. Tomorrow I'm hoping to get some work done while she's back at the office, but I'm really going to have to work out a new routine so I can get stuff done while she's home all day, because that's gonna be the case for a while!
Anyway. Bed soon, which will be good. Gonna try and put a few things in motion tomorrow. I'm probably not going to finish any pod edits, but the goal is at least to get the initial stages done on two projects: ECB and NOF. Hopefully then I can also use time that day for admin stuff. I'm really gonna have to figure out this money situation soon. Onward.
Anyway. So what's going on in the world these days is the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak/pandemic/quarantine etc. I guess that's another thing about trying to write for a future audience; I don't know how things will come to be known. But anyway. I dunno...the last couple weeks have largely been a blur. Of note is that I visited C some days back (Friday?) as like a belated birthday trip. Yesterday (Tuesday) I visited MU, which might have been pushing my (or somebody's, anyway) luck a bit, but we really wanted to get together. Things are looking pretty serious, though; it may only be a matter of time before quarantine is mandated, but for now, voluntary self-isolation is looking like the thing. People are wilding around here trying to stock up. There's all kinds of shortages: toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bottled water. People are just in full on crisis mode. I'm trying not to panic, but I am basically living a life of constant low-grade stress these days, which really isn't helping me keep my head in the game.
Things are shutting down. NYC has already shut down restaurants and bars and all kinds of gathering places: gyms, theaters...stuff like that. We know shit is real because Broadway has gone dark...casinos have closed...I mean it takes a lot to shut down places like that. For now grocery stores are still open, and restaurants can still do takeout and delivery and such, so it's not, like...bunker time or anything. (Yet?) But therapy is out for a while. Also I found out today my storage place shut down, so that's annoying, since I finally started getting around to going through some stuff and clearing the place out. Oh, well. Kinda like jobhunting. I'm sure that's not exactly going to be facilitated by a global shutdown. But the bills remain. I dunno...shit is all fucked up.
So that's a lot of why I haven't been posting lately. I haven't been running at 100% for weeks now. I'll just note that Monday was hella productive. I put my head down and got a whole bunch of shit done that day. Sure, it was stuff I should have worked on over the weekend but didn't, so a lot of that is on me. I mean, having a long day, that was on me. But I did it, I did a bunch of work and I hit my deadlines, so I felt pretty good about that. I just gotta bring that energy over to long term stuff, I guess.
Anyway. So...half an admin day today, half goof-off. Should be better tomorrow.
OH! I forgot the important bit. T was home today. She's going into the office tomorrow, but after that will be home for weeks, probably, since they're shutting down grand jury activity for a while. So that's gonna be an interesting time for me for sure. Gonna have to adapt to new working conditions if T's gonna be hanging around the house during the day now. :) So anyway...T being home is why I spent half the day watching TV with her. Tomorrow I'm hoping to get some work done while she's back at the office, but I'm really going to have to work out a new routine so I can get stuff done while she's home all day, because that's gonna be the case for a while!
Anyway. Bed soon, which will be good. Gonna try and put a few things in motion tomorrow. I'm probably not going to finish any pod edits, but the goal is at least to get the initial stages done on two projects: ECB and NOF. Hopefully then I can also use time that day for admin stuff. I'm really gonna have to figure out this money situation soon. Onward.