Yup, 25 minutes is good!

My teen has been productive but I never seen her until around noon.

Same here. The 7th grader in my house is the sole early riser (he wakes up at like 5:30 without an alarm) and has usually eaten breakfast and gone back to his room before anyone else is up and about. He's getting his work done, though so I'm not complaining!

I'm incredibly grateful to the director of our local community theater who pivoted on a dime when we went into lockdown the week before Puffs rehearsals were due to start and began working with the Company to create a devised theater piece instead. They've been meeting weekly over Zoom and will be performing this weekend over a private Facebook live channel. Our schools only started holding virtual synchronous classes this week, so these rehearsals have really helped tremendously to keep him connected to his classmates.

I was reading about a Quaker meeting that was having online/Zoom meetings and one person asked another if they were meditating or if their computer froze up.

In the meetings I grew up in, you probably wouldn't be able to know until the designated end.

Sara (16) has two modus operandum (di? whichever). She's either up at like 6:30 and doing all her stuff, and taking a hugely long afternoon nap, or she sleeps till 11 am or so and then does schoolwork and sort of lounges till dinner.

I will say, though, that with any teen, sleep is a real need. Their bodies are doing so much inside, and lots of sleep isn't always an indication something is wrong. That said, Matilda's been under an enormous amount of stress and personal emotional upheaval, so I would cut her some slack, for now.

I was reading about a Quaker meeting that was having online/Zoom meetings and one person asked another if they were meditating or if their computer froze up.I was reading about a Quaker meeting that was having online/Zoom meetings and one person asked another if they were meditating or if their computer froze up.

Bwah! My mother's school, West Chester Friends, is doing all kinds of Zoom stuff with students, including morning meeting with singing, and afternoon reflection, which ... I'm not sure what that is. But it's been going pretty well for them, even with the littles (my mom is an asst. teacher in pre-K).

Quaker meetings ... you sit there until someone feels the spirit move them to speak ... and there are days when the spirit isn't moving ANYONE.

I bailed on going into the office today. Am still managing to get more of the GD telework things done. Tomorrow I will have to go in again and then Thursday I have an all day online training.

They should take a page from the Pentecostal book. If a poisonous snake is thrown down on the floor, the spirit moves a lot of people REAL FAST!

We just got told we have to take a week of furlough sometime in May/June. We can take it unpaid or use vacation time, which is whatever, fine, I am trying to look at it as being allowed to take vacation time because I was feeling like I wouldn't be able to ask for time off at all. My boss put up a spreadsheet for everyone to put their time into minutes before I had a call with a customer, so by the time I even got to look at it there was no way for me to take 5 days off in a row. There are 8 days for me to choose my 5 days in. One Monday, 4 Tuesdays, 1 Wednesday, and 2 Thursdays. That is some bullshit.

Wow, that really is some bullshit!

I was reading about a Quaker meeting that was having online/Zoom meetings and one person asked another if they were meditating or if their computer froze up.

Heh.