Monthly Archive: March 2020

21
Mar
2020

LIFE IN THE TIME OF CORONA

I could get used to this working from home thing, even if the social distancing will prove difficult in the long run. I suspect it makes rather a huge difference that my children are grown and (pretty much) gone and it’s just the two of us rattling around in here. There are plenty of weekends that I spend, to all intents and purposes, alone, as it is. This isn’t that much different. We started a rotating work-from-home schedule on Thursday, splitting our entire department into two groups and each of our teams into two as well. The idea is that...

07
Mar
2020

ALL OF THE ABOVE, APPROXIMATELY

It’s 6:09 am on a Saturday morning as I start typing this. I’ve been awake since 4:44 am, god knows why. I woke up abruptly, padded to the bathroom, had a drink of water and laid back down, expecting to fall back asleep without a problem, but no. Tossing and turning didn’t help and then I started doing layouts in my head and that was it…I was wide awake by 5:30. It’s been ages since this has happened. I honestly think that there is so much anxiety swirling around everything right now and this is where it’s affecting me today....