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Let's blog about some mundane stuff
Feb. 19th, 2021 06:04 pmI've been encouraging myself to do some healthy choices by putting stickers on cards when I do the thing I'm supposed to do. One card is for when I brush my teeth, one is for when I meditate, etc. This is working pretty well. Another win is that I discovered this gorgeous trail walk in the Hopkins park just a couple of blocks from home. It's next to a large stream and it's a perfect two miles round-trip, and has lots of little fairy ponds and moss and stuff. I decided the first time that I was going to try to do this walk every day. In a week, I've gone five times. Yay!
Yesterday I ended up on a three hour zoom call where my cohort tried to explain to an increasingly-defensive professor that he's ACTUALLY killing us with too much homework. It was horrible and frustrating and he handled it so poorly. I hate everything.
Today I have done very little. I had a 90 minute meeting with my internship committee and I'm trying to summon the focus to do some work. I have some pastoral care calls to make.
I think I'll read a little bit too transition into focus. There's a book I'm screening for the youth group as an alternative to Harry Potter and it's amazing so far! It's called Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor and it's a young adult book about a young girl in Nigeria. Highly recommend it for those trying to fill that JK TERFling hole in your life.
On the media front, I've been watching Modern Family by day (not really a recommendation but I like the gay husband representation). By night, Spouse and I have been watching Twin Peaks. It's such an overblown soap opera! Very entertaining, even if lacking the dark supernatural eeriness i had been led to expect.
This last bit has a bit of a content warning, in terms of it being pandemic-related despair fuel:
I'm having a hard time coming to terms with having heard that things are probably never going back to how they used to be with social space and contact. Sure everything changes, but I'm still overwhelmed with grief at everything I may not ever enjoy again, like social dancing. (For context it's not likely I can get the vaccine safely).
Additionally, it seems like everyone's COVID fatigue has hitched on to the minor improvements and resulted in a lot of giving up on any safety. People who have held out until now are doing risky things. There's less mask compliance. My congregation is starting in-person activities (!??!!?!?!?) And my graduation is BEING HELD IN PERSON (?!?!?!?!?) And I only feel all the more isolated as I continue to sit at home, waiting to see if there is a future at all.
Blergh.
Yesterday I ended up on a three hour zoom call where my cohort tried to explain to an increasingly-defensive professor that he's ACTUALLY killing us with too much homework. It was horrible and frustrating and he handled it so poorly. I hate everything.
Today I have done very little. I had a 90 minute meeting with my internship committee and I'm trying to summon the focus to do some work. I have some pastoral care calls to make.
I think I'll read a little bit too transition into focus. There's a book I'm screening for the youth group as an alternative to Harry Potter and it's amazing so far! It's called Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor and it's a young adult book about a young girl in Nigeria. Highly recommend it for those trying to fill that JK TERFling hole in your life.
On the media front, I've been watching Modern Family by day (not really a recommendation but I like the gay husband representation). By night, Spouse and I have been watching Twin Peaks. It's such an overblown soap opera! Very entertaining, even if lacking the dark supernatural eeriness i had been led to expect.
This last bit has a bit of a content warning, in terms of it being pandemic-related despair fuel:
I'm having a hard time coming to terms with having heard that things are probably never going back to how they used to be with social space and contact. Sure everything changes, but I'm still overwhelmed with grief at everything I may not ever enjoy again, like social dancing. (For context it's not likely I can get the vaccine safely).
Additionally, it seems like everyone's COVID fatigue has hitched on to the minor improvements and resulted in a lot of giving up on any safety. People who have held out until now are doing risky things. There's less mask compliance. My congregation is starting in-person activities (!??!!?!?!?) And my graduation is BEING HELD IN PERSON (?!?!?!?!?) And I only feel all the more isolated as I continue to sit at home, waiting to see if there is a future at all.
Blergh.
