I will be in next week to work one on one with faculty who literally need me to drive their zoom sessions with students (like operate the mouse and be an emotional support panda). I am hoping after one or two they will be OK with me hosting and manning chat and breakout rooms from home. We are a team of four half people (we have other assignments than online education). I have Diabetes, our lead has Rheumatoid Arthritis, and another person is diagnosed with pneumonia!
Oh dear! I hope your faculty get their shit together.
My mother was trying to tell me they worked from home during the blizzard of 78, but I can't figure out how, with no computers/access to any files/etc. I mean, some could have been writing out of her head, I guess, but not much, given what the actually work was.
She's at the very end of Lafayette, in Clifton.
I'm in Clifton very near the elementary school. I don't know if you remember when we found out your grandparents knew mine - your grandmother passed along an anecdote about my father, a toddler, being frightened that lions were going to get him at his new house. Eventually my grandmother realized he'd been hearing them say they "bought the Lyons house"...
We're doing really well, safe, and mostly able to work, and getting paid, and we have enough computers for everyone, and a strong internet signal, and the kids are cooperating. And I feel terribly guilty. I left work yesterday (after sitting alone in an office all day monitoring a phone and answering emails and making sure payroll was good to go) and it was pouring rain and there were 8-10 people under the overhang in front of another part of the building, getting out of the rain. They were not practicing social distancing. We have an enormous building that is closed to the public, for their and our safety, and yet... our customers are gathering in the rain, because they have no place to go.
Jess I am so sorry. Love to you and your whole family.
I'm worried about the homeless people in so many places. Boston is putting together special housing for the ones who need to be quarantined.
But a lot of people have their routines, which includes go out to the library for a couple lazy hours, or hang out in a Starbucks getting work done, and without places to go, they're bereft.
We have one resident who at 99 years old, is remarkably hale and hearty. A couple times a week she totters on over to the Marshalls via a bus line and shops her way through the store for a couple hours. At least she's not doing that now, but it's a great source of fun for her, and at that age she deserves it.
Also Marshall's is shutting down for a while, so at least she's not going to be tempted.
I really think we're going to see over 50% unemployment before this is over.
I'm setting up my new TiVo I got in last week. Setting it up in the upstairs office/2nd living room. I may just be streaming while WFH at a real desk set up. YAY.
I also remembered to get out recycling tonight which got several extra show and small item boxes out of the house. YAY.
I am going to try to ride this wave of productivity for another 30 minutes and then go to bed since this near constant hum of stress that is way way way out of my control seems to be taking a toll on me that makes me want to sleep.
My mother was trying to tell me they worked from home during the blizzard of 78, but I can't figure out how, with no computers/access to any files/etc.
My master's comprehensive was scheduled for three days after the blizzard hit, so I just hunkered down and studied. That was my plan for the week anyway, so I already had everything I needed. I had to walk to school to take the exam, about a mile, but uphill all the way on semi-plowed roads. Fun times.
I'm sorry, Jessica. May your grandmother go peacefully and in comfort.
I'm sending good thoughts your way, Jess.
