Well, it's been 5 weeks? 7? Time doesn't feel like it's got much meaning anymore. It sure is weird to live in bookmarkable places in a history book. So not only things are dire with this new virus, but the economy has crashed to depression era levels, oil is somehow negative $40 a barrow, yet I can locally brewed beer and locally roasted coffee delivered to my door while I work in pj's.
The kids are handling zero school, daycare, and friends somewhat okay. Alice said something along the lines of "There's no point being at home if you guys are working all the time". That stung a bit. I'm going to book of chunks of my day to not working. It'll be hard to tell the difference from my output, but I'll sure feel less guilty. I think that the kids are feeling the "stay at home because of the pandemic" because of the behaviour. They all slept in the same room for... a week? 2? Again, it's hard to track the passage of time.
It's challenging. Everyone has a heightened level of stress, being on edge, as well as super conscience level of trying to be nice. It's odd, but feels right.
Work wise April has been shit. Things are being taxed to the limit and then failures that might be a once in a 6 months to 3 years events are happening like every day. Things are exhausting. I love the idea of working from home, but for some things it's a bit much while people try to copy how you work in an office 1:1 with remotely. It just doesn't work well like that. Especially with people with kids, or other obligations in their home. I think that this is going to be a long term thing, so it will slowly get better. Hopefully.
I worry about Laura. I'm extremely happy that she's able to work from home some of the time and limit her exposure to people, but I know that this makes things so much harder to do. There is a benefit to being in person.
I feel really lucky with our situation. But this isn't easy. I wonder what the ripple effects will be.
I hope that we're all able to get through this in good health.
But I worry.
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