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Tuesday gloomsday (54/365)
Feb. 23rd, 2021 06:50 pmTuesdays definitely seem to be the worst day of the week at the moment. I think it's probably because I've managed to preserve a chunk of meeting-free time most Tuesday afternoons which I currently spend contemplating all the things I really need to do and feeling so exhausted that I can't even work out which one to attempt first. (I can function fine in meetings. I've always been good at appearing better than I am. It's just that outside of meetings I have absolutely no reserves left to draw on.)
I'm not actually sure I have an opinion on Boris Johnson's "roadmap" out of lockdown. It's probably too fast, but I also can't help feeling that it probably isn't all going to happen. (Though of course, it might, and then we all end up back in lockdown six weeks later...) I can't actually see that it's going to change my life much anyway; I'm not going to be rushing out to shops*, pubs or restaurants, or going into crowded places (I never liked crowds anyway), and at the moment the guidance on universities is "students on practical courses will go back from 8 March, we'll decide about all the rest sometime after Easter and give you a week's notice when we decide they can return". This is Not Entirely Helpful, but in any case we'd already decided that lecturing (as opposed to class teaching) will be online all year, and we don't have any class teaching in Trinity Term, so it doesn't make much difference and isn't really going to change much about the way we operate.
The only bits that really make a difference to me are (a) finding out when I can meet more than one person in public, so I can swim with both my swimming friends again (29 March, which feels like a long time away still**) and (b) having it confirmed that we definitely can't go on the holiday to the Yorkshire Dales we booked for last March and deferred for a year*** to this March. Not that I'd really expected it to be possible, and we'd pretty much decided that even if it was allowed we didn't think it would be a good idea, so at least this way we get a refund, but it still feels rather grim.
*though I do miss bookshops
**and is also the day outdoor pools can open, so we could be walking past the open open-air pool on our way to the lake.
***we were due to go three days before the lockdown started, so at the point where we deferred, a few days before, we could still technically have gone and refunds weren't an option.
I'm not actually sure I have an opinion on Boris Johnson's "roadmap" out of lockdown. It's probably too fast, but I also can't help feeling that it probably isn't all going to happen. (Though of course, it might, and then we all end up back in lockdown six weeks later...) I can't actually see that it's going to change my life much anyway; I'm not going to be rushing out to shops*, pubs or restaurants, or going into crowded places (I never liked crowds anyway), and at the moment the guidance on universities is "students on practical courses will go back from 8 March, we'll decide about all the rest sometime after Easter and give you a week's notice when we decide they can return". This is Not Entirely Helpful, but in any case we'd already decided that lecturing (as opposed to class teaching) will be online all year, and we don't have any class teaching in Trinity Term, so it doesn't make much difference and isn't really going to change much about the way we operate.
The only bits that really make a difference to me are (a) finding out when I can meet more than one person in public, so I can swim with both my swimming friends again (29 March, which feels like a long time away still**) and (b) having it confirmed that we definitely can't go on the holiday to the Yorkshire Dales we booked for last March and deferred for a year*** to this March. Not that I'd really expected it to be possible, and we'd pretty much decided that even if it was allowed we didn't think it would be a good idea, so at least this way we get a refund, but it still feels rather grim.
*though I do miss bookshops
**and is also the day outdoor pools can open, so we could be walking past the open open-air pool on our way to the lake.
***we were due to go three days before the lockdown started, so at the point where we deferred, a few days before, we could still technically have gone and refunds weren't an option.
