WTF week six - like really?

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April 20

Emails, and emails, and a walk and a nap for lunch and then more emails Did the sheets and had baked potato for dinner. Spoke to MW for a bit, to ask about a student and get some advice.
I don't have the energy to think much, except for short bursts of insight - like how it would be nice with god because it is so helpful with someone who can take it all in, for whom my issues are not a bother, someone who takes the long perspective on things. The rest is spent not panicking and nesting and dealing with the details of everything that is changing.

World: 2,476,916 - 170,297
US: 786,968 - 42,308 dead
Sweden: 14,777 - 1,580 dead
Florida: 27,058 - 823 (266,225 tested)
Texas 20,083 - 520 dead  (190,394 tested)


April 21

Last episode of George Gently. Holocaust Remembrance Day. So little to say about anything.

I figured something out about aging, and why we end up thinking that things are changing and different and more dangerous than before because when we are young we can read what is going on and understand the signals and what they mean and how to respond, but as you age you get out less and cannot read the interactions as well and they get threatening.

Also, we took a walk and it is fascinating to see how we are learning to communicate with distancing rules - we have to translate the new rules.

World: 2,564,038 - 177,424
US: 824,889 - 45,042 dead
Sweden: 1,322 - 1,765 dead
Florida: 27,869 - 867 (277,059 tested)
Texas 20,921 - 545 dead  (205,399 tested)


April 22

Long day - admin meeting, grad meeting, track meeting, and students. Working on a letter to the translation student and cleaning up the degree plans. My box of salt licorice came in. Will have to put in small packages and hide the rest. Benson gave a town hall and said we haven't yet looked at furlowing or firing .... meaning it is out there. Apparently some people want a discount if the fall classes are online and they want a refund on the parking fee. I understand when people are hard up, but that is a way to long term support the buildings and features so that there is something to come back to.


World: 2,647,512 - 184,372
US: 842,624 -  46,785 dead
Sweden: 16,004 - 1,927 dead
Florida: 28,586 - 927 (288,627 tested)
Texas 21,774 - 569 dead  (216,783 tested)


April 23

Went to the store, pretty well stocked. Good supply of toilet paper. Short walk for lunch and then some stress - not sure why, don't think it was mine.


World: 2,708,885 - 190,858
US: 869,170 -  49,954 dead
Sweden: 16,755 - 2,021 dead
Florida: 29,648 - 987 (x tested)
Texas 22,650 - 604 dead  (x tested)

April 24

The student who now wishes we had not give them a degree. The faculty who insist on reading information in a very particular manner that has only a parting likeness to reality. If only I could just do my job.

Oh Oh, the orange man had suggested we might find a way to put like Lysol on the inside and clean the lungs ... or just sunlight, yanno. And I am thinking I really, really want to figure out how to deal with folks reaction to cognitive dissonance. How to help us break free from remaining committed to the ideas we have attached to ourselves.

World: 2,790,986 - 195,920
US: 890,524 -  51,017 dead
Sweden: 17,567 - 2,152 dead
Florida: 30,174 - 1,012 (301,147 tested)
Texas 22,842 - 608 dead  (225,078 tested)


April 25

Called Annika and then tried my godmother and then talked with David. Was going to sit outside, but a bird is nesting in the planter so we are staying away. Had breakfast and took a nap together and went out and went for lunch at Kearn's something or other and got stuff to make negroni's and a new waterfilter for the fridge and did something else useful and watched JCS and I cried and cried like always. John Legend such an impressive range - and whoever did Judas, did really good.

World: 2,896,746 - 202,880
US: 939,053 -  53,755 dead
Sweden: 18,177 - 2,192 dead
Florida: 30,839 - 1,055 (333,099 tested)
Texas 24,153 - 638 dead  (225,078 tested)


April 26

Made my necklace - and now I know how to make Negroni's too.

World: 2,971,669 - 206,549
US: 965,942 -  54,883 dead
Sweden: 18,640 - 2,194 dead
Florida: 31,532 - 1,075 (344,613 tested)
Texas 24,967 - 651 dead  (276,021 tested)