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Liquor store coronavirus warning!

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March 18: Update 2

Today was very stressful. Much more stressful than I had anticipated. But a corollary to “I need to be doing stuff and feeling useful” is “if I worry I’d rather it be about normal stuff.” Work drama, etc. When I think about the virus itself I just freak the fuck out in a way that isn’t helpful. If I’m all caught up in the craziness of miscommunication and inter-office clashes, it’s basically just a normal week on speed.

I worked a long day today. I went into work as part of the day’s “skeleton crew,” tried to catch up on what I could that has to be done on site, and talked to the few other people that were there. There was a lot of drama pertaining to the mail, first because there was an erroneous message about campus deliveries stopping, and then later because a top level administrator came by and tried to assign the library tasks without talking to the director and basically--SUPER dumb, stressful, and annoying situation caused by miscommunication and exacerbated by heightened feelings. Some of these heightened feelings stem from pre-virus history re: the relation of the library to the school. I obsessed way too much. BUT I’m not coming in for another week so by then it should be worked out.

I was supposed to work until 1 but I honestly needed more time, and so did the circ staffer who came in with me so we ended up staying until almost 3. Then she dropped me off at home, and I had lunch, and then came back online at 3:40. I ended up working until 5:15 mostly so I could follow the latest mail related drama on Teams--that’s 8.5 hours of work so I’ll just stop working early tomorrow. I feel like tomorrow is my first real day of remote work. I was home on Tuesday but we had like an hour and a half of meetings, there was lots of Teams chatter, etc. Tomorrow is a test of what a “normal” at home day is.

One of the hardest parts is transitioning from work to home. As long as I’m “at work” I can focus on work tasks and that is helpful. But then when I have to completely take control of my own time again, and I don’t even have the buffer of a commute or change of location to help me transition to ‘me time,’ I just start to feel very lost. It’s easy to just slide into passivity or to start feeling scared.

I think tomorrow I’ll take another walk like I did on Tuesday and hopefully that will help. I also think having plans is a good idea--nothing I’d feel bad about breaking, and nothing strenuous, but just something there as a default so I don’t have to look around at 4, or whenever, and say “...okay what now?” Something like: wash all those stupid dishes, or try to write, or read a little.

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this c*rona shit really has me on edge and the way the president is handling shit is so fucking dumb.

like put us on fucking lockdown. quarantine us to our homes for now. stop all bill charging right now and just let the people figure out. a 2 week quarantine to see if people develop symptoms and if they do they call a number and go get tested and treated. simple. it’s really not that hard. he's putting us all at risk by not doing that.

also my boss is a fucking idiot and thinks that his small private family owned practice of veterinary medicine is an essential business to keep open. like no dude. the 24 hour emergency places are. your dumb small practice is not. do you understand how many vet places would be open. in my town alone their are 5 different ones. and it’s ridiculous. all we ever see are annual healths, vaccines and nail trims (maybe a spray or neuter at most). right now you can’t afford to lose your employees. it’s literally just me, my tech and a receptionist and my boss (the doctor). like I think you'd be more concerned about your employees with such a small amount of them but nope the mf is all about money and money only.

so yeah, I feel fine, but I heard you can have it and have no symptoms. if I feel the need to quarantine myself -- I will, even if that means I lose my job. im not risking my health or my boyfriend or my animals health for this shit.

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Officially working from home 4.5 days a week and all I want to do is REPLY TO EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE ON TEAMS.

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March 16: More Insanity

(Btw going to start tagging posts about covid 19 with “coronavirus warning” because I’m about this-close to blocking virus news on tumblr for my own well being, so--if anyone else needs to.)

Another batshit insane day. I missed the memo that no one wants to come to work anymore so I came in to immediate discussion of how we’re all going to telecommute now and how many people actually need to be in the library, etc., and my boss kinda freaking out. At least half the staff were not there... In the morning there were five of us, but by early afternoon only three. At least two people are going completely remote and the rest of us...who knows? Who knows what percentage of the time I’ll be there versus home?

We’re having a meeting tomorrow (by zoom so.... lol that’ll be fun) and I better get some answers or I’ll scream.

I want to write down all these nutty stories for posterity but I also want to stop thinking about it because I can’t think about it 24/7 or I’ll lose it.

In short: we had debates about circulation procedures, drama with our doors, a lot of confusion about the governor’s directive to “close to the public” as of noon, one person took her printer and a scanner home (the main library is literally taking their computers home like wtf), I reached out to several friends and they’re doing all right, and this is a very bad and ungrammatical sentence.

Went grocery shopping after work and tried to balance not being a hoarder with getting myself enough food to last for a little bit. I know the utter closing of the grocery stores is the last thing on the list of measures that could be taken but I am a scared little creature nevertheless. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t putting everything in my basked but I did about twice as much shopping as I would normally do. Where I could. It was very cleaned out, especially in the meat/eggs/bread department, and the cold and flu department. I bought some Nyquil even though I’ve never used Nyquil before so hopefully I don’t need it.

Literally no idea what tomorrow will bring but I’m not thinking any farther than this meeting. At this point it kind of has to be one day at a time and I’m not good at that but that’s just how it is.