I worked on campus yesterday. And I’m feeling it today! It was the sort of day that makes me glad I went to college. It was a highly physical day. We moved furniture. I sweat a lot. I only hurt myself twice, and on two separate tables.
One, I was trying to flip over a table and dropped it squarely on both big toes. You walk that off, in time. The other time, we were moving tables, via under-sized hand trucks, from one building to the other. This was a half-mile odyssey upon which only one table was destroyed. It wasn’t mine, at least.
It was sunny early, and then turned gray by midday.
And when we left at around 4 p.m. we were heavily invested in dodging rain drops. And that’s probably the part that left me the most achy today.
Probably not, but let’s go with it!
Anyway, it was nice to see people, at least the part of them between their masks and hairlines. It was nice to pitch in on a big project and make some progress on it. We were replacing furniture in a computer lab and rebuilding some edit bays and the like. Later this week we’ll go make some videos. It will almost feel like normal, if that’s your sort of thing.
I visited the grocery store on the way back to the house yesterday. I mention this only because the sport of mask watching seems to be obligatory at this point. The only people I saw sans-face covering were young people.
College town! What could go wrong!?
The only people I saw wearing masks incorrectly were three older ladies whose noses were born to be free, dagnabbit. What could go wrong, indeed.
I picked up the five items I went in for, stuffed them all in my semi-impermanent fabric shopping bags, forgot to look for the sixth item I was considering and made my escape, through the continuing rain. I was in and out in five minutes, and avoided both the mask deficient utes and the mask inefficient oldz.
The nicest part of all of this is that I loaded up the car with new music today. And, considering how much time I’m not spending in the car right now, it could last a good long while.
I predict you’re going to see more about this story in the next week or two.
Experience is always the best teacher.
But, it doesn’t have to be our own experience.
Why do we refuse to learn from the experience of others? https://t.co/Rgkmjy5aL5— Arne Duncan (@arneduncan) August 4, 2020
The home state is also rocking the good personal decisions, I see.
"Just 15% of Alabama ICU beds are available and officials are concerned"https://t.co/hpzBTKu8pf
Also, "Alabama releases plan for when a student or teacher appears sick at school"https://t.co/f8OIwQheWV
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) August 4, 2020
That’s unfair, as generalizations go. Not everyone who is sick should be characterized as making poor choices. But a great many people seem to be intent on ill-informed decisions and it’s easy to sweep others into that group. To that subset of people, I apologize.
Perhaps you’ve already seen the instantly famous Axios interview. If not, you might. Either way, you might come away with some questions about what it contained. Seth Abramson put himself through the ringer to unpack the whole thing. It’s really something else. Do him a favor and reward his dedication to an unsavory job by reading about it.
It's a remarkable thread, really. Stupendous in its undertaking, offensive in its nature, and insulting in its every implication.
But you already knew that. https://t.co/LDIMtM6vCF
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) August 4, 2020
And do me a favor by checking out these other places. There’s a lot more on Twitter, and I hear Instagram is popular these days, as well. Also, you can catch up on the work podcast On Topic with IU as well.
