Not quite one full week and ... counting?
Mar. 21st, 2020 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maeve66Our third quarter ended yesterday and our grades for it are due by March 31st. Here is my terrible, fraught situation with regard to that:
(God, CAN'T Dreamwidth fucking manage to let us just directly import photos? Photobucket is giving me attitude these days, like my storage is overfull, when I haven't uploaded shit for months, possibly almost years... certainly only a few photos in that time) Well, I'll add the picture in Livejournal, I guess. I mean, I am trying to log in to photobucket right now, and even that is not working. Stupid photohosting.
The photo is my cat, Devlin, happily sleeping on part of a spilled pile of Weekly Warm-ups to be graded.
ANYWAY.
I hate grading. I far prefer lesson planning, even with this weird twist of doing it long-distance and relatively low tech (nothing synchronous, at least not so far; Google Classrooms and as far as possible not requiring internet -- which is already bullshit, once the hard copy packets were handed out last Thursday, because now if kids have to access new work two weeks from now, it will have to be via Google Classroom, so where's your equity NOW, motherfucker?).
It's really hard not to go open my work Outlook, and see whatever email I am getting on this weekend. I know kids and parents will email me now, on the weekend. But if I cave and do that, I will be on it all day and ugh, no. So I will try to stay strong and avoid it until 7:45 Monday morning or maybe a bit earlier, because I know we have some Google hangout meeting at 8 AM sharp.
I got to see my nieces briefly today, as they came in to deliver me a crucial piece of mail that got delivered (with no notification to ME) to a local FedEx Walgreens instead of my door... and some greatly appreciated tea and half and half, which are the only supplies I was really worrying about.
They stayed six feet away from me and didn't stay long, but it was so good to see them. Ruby, my older niece, thinks she should be good to actually hang out about another week from now -- it was possible she was exposed to a guy with symptoms, the boyfriend of the roommate of her best college buddy. But she's been on lockdown for more than a week now.
So. I'm finding that my dad's OCD sort of grows in me, bit by bit. One way I am reacting to this whole Shelter-in-place/Stay-at-home thing is by listing. A LOT of listing.
I'll save the worst for last, but here are some samples:
a list of people I am getting in touch with/staying regularly in touch with via internet and phone
a list of students I've successfully contacted; students I have not been able to contact yet; and students who seem not to have internet access (still incomplete)
a list of To Dos, both work and personal (this already takes up two full pages of the notebook I am using to contain these lists)
a list of groceries that I worry about running out of (really, that's tea and half and half, I swear)
a series of recipes I want to make, including one I've made -- lentils and fennel and sausage stew. It would probably be great without the sausage, for those who don't eat animals. I liked it a lot, and it had a great effect on my blood sugar.
a list of media I want to watch (not read, yet, because I have lots and lots of books I am reading on my Kindle app)
Here's that list, in case anyone wants to critique or, better, ADD ideas:
The Devil Wears Prada (bold = I've watched it)
Who Killed Malcolm X? on Netflix, apparently
Hidden Figures
Downton Abbey: the Movie... I started this a few weeks ago and trailed off...
Mary, Queen of Scots
Anne with an "E" despite the way it veers outside of any universe L. M. Montgomery would recognize, even during season 1 (but I love the casting of Anne and Marilla and Matthew so much!)
Series 3 of Babylon Berlin, this Netflix German-produced noir set in Weimar Republic Berlin... SO GOOD. Well, the first two series were. Actually, I am also (first) going to rewatch the original series, with a friend.
possibly a re-watch of The Wire
Get Out, except I really need my nieces for that; I am not good at watching horror movies alone
Jo Jo Rabbit when it becomes available
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Belles of St. Trinians, though I don't know if that is available...
Dreamgirls
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
The English Game... dunno much about this, but it's upcoming on Netflix.
The Breadwinner, if I can find it -- an animated movie of the Deborah Ellis story about a girl passing as a boy in war torn Kabul.
Influenza 1918, an American Experience documentary, 51 minutes long, from PBS, and streaming free on their website.
The Repair Shop a Netflix show just hyped by a friend on FB
Star Trek: Discovery
Picard
That's it so far. I am watching fairly slowly, really.
So. The worst thing of my listing is that I am morbidly interested in the rate of coronavirus infections... which is really more accurately stated as the rate of coronavirus positive tests, so not at all reflective of reality. But there's a website which updates frequently. A commenter on FB said that it was very likely a shitty racist right-wing site, because it also has a population counter. I am trying to ignore that knowledge. It's just so fascinating to watch the numbers a few times a day, to watch exponential growth in almost real time. And to marvel at the countries where the numbers are even more bullshit than the rest of the numbers. Russia and India, for example.
(God, CAN'T Dreamwidth fucking manage to let us just directly import photos? Photobucket is giving me attitude these days, like my storage is overfull, when I haven't uploaded shit for months, possibly almost years... certainly only a few photos in that time) Well, I'll add the picture in Livejournal, I guess. I mean, I am trying to log in to photobucket right now, and even that is not working. Stupid photohosting.
The photo is my cat, Devlin, happily sleeping on part of a spilled pile of Weekly Warm-ups to be graded.
ANYWAY.
I hate grading. I far prefer lesson planning, even with this weird twist of doing it long-distance and relatively low tech (nothing synchronous, at least not so far; Google Classrooms and as far as possible not requiring internet -- which is already bullshit, once the hard copy packets were handed out last Thursday, because now if kids have to access new work two weeks from now, it will have to be via Google Classroom, so where's your equity NOW, motherfucker?).
It's really hard not to go open my work Outlook, and see whatever email I am getting on this weekend. I know kids and parents will email me now, on the weekend. But if I cave and do that, I will be on it all day and ugh, no. So I will try to stay strong and avoid it until 7:45 Monday morning or maybe a bit earlier, because I know we have some Google hangout meeting at 8 AM sharp.
I got to see my nieces briefly today, as they came in to deliver me a crucial piece of mail that got delivered (with no notification to ME) to a local FedEx Walgreens instead of my door... and some greatly appreciated tea and half and half, which are the only supplies I was really worrying about.
They stayed six feet away from me and didn't stay long, but it was so good to see them. Ruby, my older niece, thinks she should be good to actually hang out about another week from now -- it was possible she was exposed to a guy with symptoms, the boyfriend of the roommate of her best college buddy. But she's been on lockdown for more than a week now.
So. I'm finding that my dad's OCD sort of grows in me, bit by bit. One way I am reacting to this whole Shelter-in-place/Stay-at-home thing is by listing. A LOT of listing.
I'll save the worst for last, but here are some samples:
a list of people I am getting in touch with/staying regularly in touch with via internet and phone
a list of students I've successfully contacted; students I have not been able to contact yet; and students who seem not to have internet access (still incomplete)
a list of To Dos, both work and personal (this already takes up two full pages of the notebook I am using to contain these lists)
a list of groceries that I worry about running out of (really, that's tea and half and half, I swear)
a series of recipes I want to make, including one I've made -- lentils and fennel and sausage stew. It would probably be great without the sausage, for those who don't eat animals. I liked it a lot, and it had a great effect on my blood sugar.
a list of media I want to watch (not read, yet, because I have lots and lots of books I am reading on my Kindle app)
Here's that list, in case anyone wants to critique or, better, ADD ideas:
The Devil Wears Prada (bold = I've watched it)
Who Killed Malcolm X? on Netflix, apparently
Hidden Figures
Downton Abbey: the Movie... I started this a few weeks ago and trailed off...
Mary, Queen of Scots
Anne with an "E" despite the way it veers outside of any universe L. M. Montgomery would recognize, even during season 1 (but I love the casting of Anne and Marilla and Matthew so much!)
Series 3 of Babylon Berlin, this Netflix German-produced noir set in Weimar Republic Berlin... SO GOOD. Well, the first two series were. Actually, I am also (first) going to rewatch the original series, with a friend.
possibly a re-watch of The Wire
Get Out, except I really need my nieces for that; I am not good at watching horror movies alone
Jo Jo Rabbit when it becomes available
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Belles of St. Trinians, though I don't know if that is available...
Dreamgirls
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
The English Game... dunno much about this, but it's upcoming on Netflix.
The Breadwinner, if I can find it -- an animated movie of the Deborah Ellis story about a girl passing as a boy in war torn Kabul.
Influenza 1918, an American Experience documentary, 51 minutes long, from PBS, and streaming free on their website.
The Repair Shop a Netflix show just hyped by a friend on FB
Star Trek: Discovery
Picard
That's it so far. I am watching fairly slowly, really.
So. The worst thing of my listing is that I am morbidly interested in the rate of coronavirus infections... which is really more accurately stated as the rate of coronavirus positive tests, so not at all reflective of reality. But there's a website which updates frequently. A commenter on FB said that it was very likely a shitty racist right-wing site, because it also has a population counter. I am trying to ignore that knowledge. It's just so fascinating to watch the numbers a few times a day, to watch exponential growth in almost real time. And to marvel at the countries where the numbers are even more bullshit than the rest of the numbers. Russia and India, for example.
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Date: 2020-03-22 11:16 pm (UTC)Also Hidden Figures is good. My boss adored Jo Jo Rabbit. Get Out reminded me a great deal of The Stepford Wives - it's really good, but not scary so much as satirical.
And, I want your cat. But alas, allergic. Sigh. Glad you are safe.