Too soon?
As you may recall from last week’s post, I had expected to be busy with work events all day yesterday and most of today. Then we had our first couple of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rochester.
Bam. Everything cancelled.
To be honest, I’m more concerned about the repercussions if I pick it up and then spread it than I am the consequences of getting sick myself. But after the last few months in which I was sick for a significant period of time in December, then again in January, and then again in February, catching every single bug that made its way through, I am feeling a bit fatalistic about the fact that I likely will catch this. My theory is that working from home for nearly 20 years lowered my immune system and now that I’ve been “released to the wild” with this new job, around boatloads of people every week, my body doesn’t know what to do with itself. And, frankly, I’m just sick of being sick. So I’m doin’ it hermit-style.
I also have one staffperson with a compromised immune system and a second one with 5 kids under 10 at home so, after the school system in the suburb in which our offices are located announced their closure for the next two weeks, I told the staff to work from home for the foreseeable future. They’re both very grateful. I’ll probably still go into my office on occasion because heck, I’ll be the only one there, and I’m taking advantage of all this “found time” to work on finally getting my filing system into shape.
In any case, yesterday (Saturday) I mostly read. I was oddly sleepy all day. I finished The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan. It’s a cute enough chick-lit book. Although it’s partially a romance, it focuses more on the main character herself, her relationship with her son and other children who come into her care, and her friendships. The romance almost an afterthought, which I prefer. Good characters, fun writing. It’s a sequel of sorts to The Bookshop on the Corner, also cute. Both are good reads for when you just want to relax, enjoy, and not be challenged.
I also read most of this morning. I’m still reading Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi. I actually hope to finish that this afternoon. So good! As soon as I finish that, the next book on my library stack is Amazing Grace: William Wilbeforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, by Eric Metaxas. This one has been on my to-read list ever since I read Metaxas’ Martin Luther last summer. He writes a great biography. I actually wasn’t all that interested in Luther until someone recommended the book to me so I thought, “What the heck.” And I ended up thoroughly enjoying it. I’m also about halfway through The Bat by Jo Nesbo. This is a highly reviewed mystery series with a Norwegian main character, detective Harry Hole (pronounced Ho-lay). Since I’m really into wonderfully noir TV mystery series from various Scandinavian countries available on Acorn TV, I thought it would be fun. I’m having a little difficulty really getting into it, though. Fortunately I got it through my local library (using Libby) onto my Kindle so I don’t have any money invested in it. We’ll see how it ends. If it ends well, I’ll probably read the second book in the series to see if character development brings it up a notch or two.
And did I sew? Yes, I got about an hour in this afternoon. I’m not as sleepy-tired as I was yesterday so I thought I’d be able to get a solid session in.
I got month 4 of the way-overdue BOTM done.
I know—as a block on its own it’s fairly wild. But I think I can imagine how some pieces may come together in the end. I like doing a BOTM this way rather than other ones I’ve done where you do four of one block one month, 2 of another one another month…this has me intrigued. “How is that weird-butt piece going to fit in?”
I then got started on month 5. But my husband came in to talk to me partway through and after I finished piecing the second step, I realized I’d done it backwards. And immediately it stopped being fun for me. So, abiding by my new rules, I put it down and walked away.
After all, I’m going to be home all week now…