A mini-autoethnography re: #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid
Started #selfisolating Mar16, d/t travel followed by respiratory symptoms; tested -ve for #Covid19 {WhooHoo!}
Now #workingfromhome, #physicaldistancing & #socialconnecting via Zoom, Hangouts, etc. Earworm:
Yst'day was rough. Mood swings, easily demoralized by small things: colleagues not getting a strategy; more wafer-thin slices from my autonomy in my work. Saved by a long walk. I could handle #PlankTheCurve if Ab's attack on universities wasn't co-occuring. #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid
Sunshine, a bike ride in wind so strong it pushed me up out of the river valley = good medicine; met 1.5 of today's 3 productivity goals. Calling it enough. #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid

#Earworm: @KateTempest's "Hold Your Own"

youtube.com/playlist?list=…
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid Past the glorying-in freedom-from-daily-office-trips & applauding-as-meetings-are-cancelled stage; now @ the begging-people-to-NOT-reply-all & wishing-for-2-monitors-instead-of-my-tiny-laptop subsidising the new normal of #workingfromhome. Small pleasures: Image
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid Local #COVID19Ab testing has us on the upward slope of the epi curve, but slope isn't as steep as it might be. Maybe we'll #FlattenTheCurve yet. Not 1 to waste a crisis, our Premier is still cutting jobs.

#Earworm by @propagandhi
Been a hectic week, with good excitement (#facemasking focus group recruitment started!), but also real disillusionment (politicos trolling scientists for models not being 100% perfect predictions; more people fired by @jkenney & Far.Too.Many.Zoom.Meetings). Starting fresh today: Image
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid It's only Tues, but already feel far behind @ work; so much to do to prep for summer's workshops, research project, & more. 😵
Sunshine, river trails & my summer bike = super de-stressors Image
Ordered dinner from @Filistix.
#Ariel himself delivered! Great chat, and then Chicken adobo & nasi goreng for a delicious dinner.
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid #yeglife Image
Cycling river valley trails is my main way to decompress from #screenfatigue. And, I'm learning new things about my city. Eg: this place exists!
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid
#YorathHouse #yeglife
edmonton.ca/activities_par… ImageImageImage
So, today I rode the easy flats of the northside. 36km. Irritating disconnected bikelanes (argh). #Yeg has some really ugly urban landscape.

Sky is good though. Image
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid:
This week I have broken 1 plate & 2 glasses (1 full of @blindmanbrewery, Ichorus) nearly set my flat on fire with an easter egg, & melted a J-cloth onto my glass cooktop. Clutziness seems the standard this week. Also: insomnia, still (@Sleepisthenews1)
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid:
Under a UCP gov't,

To surveil or not to surveil? Aye, there's the rub.

#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid:

Letting Charlie Haden soothe the soul🎶
charliehaden.bandcamp.com/track/lonely-w…
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid
Wrangling e-class (tedious!!); adding @zoom_us pro (is this the best app, really?); loading resources via @googledrive (c-l-u-n-k-y, crappy sort/file).

Coping by fantasizing about being with in Melbourne, 2017 soundcloud.com/user-521820182… Image
Tiny accomplishments (like fixing my espresso maker), small pleasures (coffe) help with the computer world of #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid.
Even while mourning Florian Schneider (@kraftwerk)
Earworm1:


+ sweet antidote (#RIPMillie):

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The 1st really helpful txt I've received from @GoAHealth's #txt4hope
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it's the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~ M. Radmacher"
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid Image
Day _?_ of #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid (Lost track). A tech-challenges day; lame work laptop now in IT hospital, receiving a marrow-transfusion; personal laptop bluetoothing again, post housecall by @Nerds2You. Now only 72 hrs behind sched.
🎶Antidote: @bjork:
The time when u share some ideas that give u strategies & hope for how our future jobs might actually #BeBetter, & your colleague points out that since our #UCP_cuts-required demotions, & leader-vacuum @UAlberta, nobody is hearing our smart ideas anymore 😤 #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid
In accordance with Canadian May Long Weekend tradition, putting the garden in.
Not, done, but it's a start. #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid Image
Usually, I grow veggies & salad on my balcony, but I decided this summer, what with #COVID19AB & all, I need colour & fragrance for a happy lanai. Visiting the garden centre = 1st #excursion since self-isolation in mid-March. I was excited, curious & a leetle anxious...[1\2] Image
Greenland Garden Centre was super organized, with clear signage, sanitizer stations, & friendly staff providing direction. People *mostly* tried to #physicaldistance; sort of. The toilet signage & supplies are a sign of the new normal for #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid ImageImageImage
Getting there....
#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid Image
Already, my lanai is a happier place.

Also, I am glad I kept my Nanny's and mother's fine bone china.

#LifeInTheTimeOfCovid ImageImage
More happy lanai & grandmaman heirlooms, because little pleasures are therapeutic. #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid. Image
Online teaching, aka 5 weeks of @SSHRC_CRSH / @CRSH_SSHRC grant-crafting boot camp starts with cohort 1 today. Feeling underprepared/pre-performance anxiety re: @zoom_us & other tools, adding an extra layer of complexity to thinking about #research.
Errand fails: @ShopprsDrugMart layout actually streams people to not-#physicaldistance😬; tried #Loblaws in @OCLYEG where a tall flabby bermuda-wearing hipster told me to "Fuck right off" when I pointed to the floor arrows he was ignoring.🤔 Phase2 sucks #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid
I was wearing my #facemask (thanks @AmyKaler), but apparently the message "face mask = keep your distance" wasn't being received by swearing-hipster-dude, despite @xkcdComic's best intentions:

xkcd.com/2290/
When I'm feeling very unproductive, or I'm preoccupied with thinking about @UCPCaucus' drastic cuts to the #universities & #Covid19, I'm finding weeding at the community garden to be really helpful. Especially on rainy days. 3 plots done. #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid. Image
🎼'Dance & laugh & play. Ignore the msg we convey....we’re only here to entertain? A rebellion cut-to-fit? You won’t like this but...we strive for more than a faded sticker on a skateboard; we'll defeat this soapbox u made'🎸#CoronaMusic
Thnx @propagandhi propagandhi.bandcamp.com/track/anti-man…
PS:
*Actual* lyrics for Anti-Manifesto, as written & sung by Chris Hannah & @propagandhi, here: propagandhi.com/lyrics/album/h…

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