About two months ago, I started working on content for Toworia.com. I am going to really make a go at it. We will see how much I get done before life intervenes, but I’ve done more than I thought I would when I started.
Year: 2020
professional writing is rarely a burden, though i do a lot of it. between recent gradschool obligations and the impending policyageddon about to hit NYC schools, i am finding my brain stretched quite thin. in order to make sure i didn’t go over an assignment limit last week, i installed a word counter widget, which i then promptly forgot was running. this was last thursday.
tonight i realized the widget was running, and checked it. it clocked me at over 47k.
there are times i can’t get that far in nano in a month.
no wonder my brain feels like it is slowly leaking out of my ears, and onto my keyboard…
In answer to my past self, more than a month in, and it feels like it has been a year. I haven’t worked hours like the ones I am pulling since I started writing online, several lifetimes ago.
People are healthy, overall. My grandmother turned 99. We tore up a big chunk of backyard to start a garden. I aced my first semester of gradschool, pandemic included.
I have about four weeks to read everything for next semester, while I don’t have coursework. Unfortunately, in that time, we have to string together the logistics for a virtual gala, three end of year celebrations, an online art show, an online music night, and a graduation. In some ways, I think the end of the year is going to be harder virtually than analog, at least on resources taxed on my team.
Part of my brain lives 60-90 days in the future. I am trying to plan logistics for times with so many external variables – it makes it insanely complicated, given the huge number of unknowns COVID-19 has introduced to supply chains and labor allocation.
I just hope everything stays buckled down for the forseeable.
Happy St. Patrick’s day!
If only I had some sense of the outer bounds of the new normal, it would be less stressful. I cannot fathom how this is only the second day, and feels like it is already a month in. What is it going to feel like in a month?
