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cosmolinguist26 What activity makes you lose track of time?
Almost nothing any more. I'm having no trouble with things like what day it is, which social media and memes assure me is a problem for a lot of people in quarantimes. Maybe it helps that I'm working only two days a week (usually), spaced out so I'm never more than a couple days away from one. Last week I had the TV stuff (Skype bit Sunday morning, walking-around-being-filmed on Monday morning), a meeting with a uni careers advisor on Wednesday, work on Thursday and also unusually on Friday. Every week is different but every week has some structure to it, which I'm really grateful for.
And this is with me still ignoring the uni lecture on Monday and the seminar on Tuesday that one of my lecturers still wants to have happen at their appointed times. There were only 6 or 7 people in the in-person class, so I don't know what his online attendance looks like! I prefer the lectures that have just bee uploaded and don't expect me to sit through them at any particular time; one of my lecturers was even uploading them during Easter break so they're there whenever we're in a state to watch them.
Seems unfair to have to go to work tomorrow when it feels like I was just there. I've only had a "normal" amount of weekend after working Thursday and Friday. Making it to tomorrow morning's lecture before getting ready to walk to work seems ambitious indeed, but we'll see how it goes.
I'm off to bed now, having discharged my last duty by skyping my dad. It's his birthday today, and he doesn't even have my mom for company. She'll be away for a couple more weeks yet. I couldn't convince her that it's possible to get Skype on her phone (nor was I able to get my dad to download the app before she left; I think he could have managed that but I don't think he knows their username or password so it would've been a moot point anyway). I thought she at least had access to their shared email address on her phone, but Dad says not. This was at the beginning of an incredibly frustrating conversation I had with him that once again reminded me he doesn't understand the difference between an email address and an Apple ID and every time I try to explain it I just end up wanting to go live in a cave and never think about any of this stuff ever again.
So I'm sad I won't have any kind of contact with my mom for two and a half more weeks, not even email. But my parents are FaceTiming every evening, which they can manage because it doesn't need them to download any apps or know any passwords. Dad said the first time they tried it neither of them could figure out how to end the call but it went all right otherwise.
Almost nothing any more. I'm having no trouble with things like what day it is, which social media and memes assure me is a problem for a lot of people in quarantimes. Maybe it helps that I'm working only two days a week (usually), spaced out so I'm never more than a couple days away from one. Last week I had the TV stuff (Skype bit Sunday morning, walking-around-being-filmed on Monday morning), a meeting with a uni careers advisor on Wednesday, work on Thursday and also unusually on Friday. Every week is different but every week has some structure to it, which I'm really grateful for.
And this is with me still ignoring the uni lecture on Monday and the seminar on Tuesday that one of my lecturers still wants to have happen at their appointed times. There were only 6 or 7 people in the in-person class, so I don't know what his online attendance looks like! I prefer the lectures that have just bee uploaded and don't expect me to sit through them at any particular time; one of my lecturers was even uploading them during Easter break so they're there whenever we're in a state to watch them.
Seems unfair to have to go to work tomorrow when it feels like I was just there. I've only had a "normal" amount of weekend after working Thursday and Friday. Making it to tomorrow morning's lecture before getting ready to walk to work seems ambitious indeed, but we'll see how it goes.
I'm off to bed now, having discharged my last duty by skyping my dad. It's his birthday today, and he doesn't even have my mom for company. She'll be away for a couple more weeks yet. I couldn't convince her that it's possible to get Skype on her phone (nor was I able to get my dad to download the app before she left; I think he could have managed that but I don't think he knows their username or password so it would've been a moot point anyway). I thought she at least had access to their shared email address on her phone, but Dad says not. This was at the beginning of an incredibly frustrating conversation I had with him that once again reminded me he doesn't understand the difference between an email address and an Apple ID and every time I try to explain it I just end up wanting to go live in a cave and never think about any of this stuff ever again.
So I'm sad I won't have any kind of contact with my mom for two and a half more weeks, not even email. But my parents are FaceTiming every evening, which they can manage because it doesn't need them to download any apps or know any passwords. Dad said the first time they tried it neither of them could figure out how to end the call but it went all right otherwise.