I would like to join, too!
Living 'my life in fear' is basically what I've been doing all along, so I am well practiced at managing such awful uncertainty.
For historical reasons if anybody comes back to reread about us during the Pandemic and election, et cetera, I'd like to mention that yesterday Moderna announced their competing vaccine proved 94.5% effective in trials, so we have two good vaccines coming online in not all that long a time away, and also we're going to be getting rational national leadership installed on January 20th of this coming year, so two months off.
Managing fear is a lot easier when you know you can take effective steps yourself, and that external factors are moving to relieve the situation. I wonder how much of the "I won't live in FEAR!" reaction is jumping directly into hopelessness rather than dealing.
Clarified with my ER doc friend that our tday plan with my folks is to eat outside on their porch and she gave us the ok to do that.
I created a Doodle for The Nilly Zoom, but can anyone please confirm which hours they're seeing outside of Israel? (I can't change timezones to test that on work computer). [link]
I'm also interested in a Nilly Zoom.
Shir, your post is marked 5:03 a.m. PST. As I write this, it's a little after 8 a.m. in the Eastern U.S.
Thanks, Fred - I didn't mean the hours here on the board, I meant the times presented in Doodle (first option is set to 20:00 PM, Israel time). I wonder if they adjust automatically to where you are, or if I should change it an American timezone.
Apologies for the confusion. I've voted, and the Doodle shows 1:00 to 2:30 and 2:30 to 4:00 New York time.
So happy to hear the technology actually works. Thanks for confirming!
I would LOVE a Nilly Zoom!!
Good morning, by Buffistas. I have showered, had (having) coffee, and am getting ready for another day of virtual teaching.
I'm exhausted already. And with the Big Move to our new house happening in a few weeks and my side gig starting before the end of the month, I'm on a trajectory to never rest again.
Woke up two hours early, couldn't get back to sleep. Thanks, covid.
Being a hermit by nature and also dealing with trauma and anxiety etc definitely has become a plus . I am much better suited towards this than my more outgoing, better adjusted to normal life co workers.
It also means I have skills for this. One thing I learned in my DBT therapy is that a lot our bad coping skills that cause problems started out as useful ones. They served a purpose but then things changed and they became a negative. I'm starting to feel like some of this negative coping mechanisms are coming back around to useful ones.
