Friday, September 4, 2020

Day two of the new normal

Woke up at 4am to drive to VT - not to quarantine from my guys, but because I was planning to anyway. I loaded the car and left with no one awake and no one much on the roads. It was a dark and rainy drive until just about halfway - the sunrise on my right and a full moon on my left - glorious!

Landed at the cabin in time to throw stuff in the fridge and do my work day: meetings, respond to email, meaningless crap mostly. I explained my lack of symptoms and the unfolding process to everyone, over and over, like a birth story or a death story or the story of his proposal, like getting COVID-19 is an exceptional life event. 

Discussed with my boss how this might be a huge victory for feminism. That the new normal requires operations to allow for everyone, including men, to experience the need to be out of the office for 2 weeks to 2 months, with no warning and no guarantees. Managing operations around parental leave will seem like a luxury after this - we may even become more humane about it.

I woke up very clear, recognizing that the day before I was more impaired than I had realized. By the time  I went to bed, I knew I was still missing some fairly important part of how I normally operate. I installed 6 pieces of wood, then went to bed and fell asleep like a dead person.

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