On Thursday, I had my last meeting ever of an executive committee that I’ve been on for almost 7 years, shared governance at the University. I’ve hit term limits, so couldn’t stand for re-election in the spring. Since it was my last meeting, at the end we went around the zoom and everyone said something … [Read more…]
So here we are again, another Sunday. Another week of plugged into online meetings all day – and sometimes in the evening too – and not doing much of anything creative, except maybe cooking dinner. And not taking very many pics of food or anything. Like today, I planned to make some more masks with … [Read more…]
And, I realize it’s incredibly privileged to be calling this pandemic year “weird”. Everyone in my family is working remotely, still getting paid, relatively safe. But in terms of cookie season in the pandemic year, it’s weird. I am vacillating between borderline depression, feeling like nothing’s coming out right, and moments of feeling happy and … [Read more…]
Sometimes negative is positive. Like Saturday morning when I got my most recent Covid test results back as negative – that’s good because it means I don’t have the virus, even after working the election almost 2 weeks ago. I waited to give it time to incubate. Sometimes positive is negative. Like this whole election … [Read more…]