Not a bad gig. No lesson plans or waking up at 5:15 and driving to work in the dark. No teaching. No formal observation. I could get very used to this.
I read in the newspaper this morning that the government, after giving all their attention to the recommendations of the public health experts, was now starting to listen to the economists.
My new job responsibility is to call students and make sure they're ok and then put their answer on a google doc.
I just have to put my notes online. Since my notes are pretty detailed, and are all already written, 'cause I basically just continuously recycle and update the notes of my past classes, it has been a cinch.
I read in the newspaper this morning that the government, after giving all their attention to the recommendations of the public health experts, was now starting to listen to the economists.
I think this will all tie into the war analogy. We must save the economy! The enemy is the virus. The soldiers are the workers. Workers who are unable to work from home will be sent to the front (back to trains, buses, subways, offices, schools). There will be many casualties, but that's war.
And if the testing remains as limited as it is now, we can keep the number of virus casualties at a reasonably low number.
And another thing - If our dictator decides to kill the postal service, mail-in ballots become much more problematic.
I should be trying to learn the next guitar lesson...or exercising.
I sold a bunch of expensive stuff today, which is nice in general but combined with the last month I had, also pretty much insures that I'll have a job indefinitely.
My company is emphatic about not laying people off from my division right now. But with the way things are going in the economy, it seems like a good idea to make sure that if they make lists later in the year that I end up on the good list.
I'm hypersensitive about job security because of how clear it has become to me that my job is fake and if no one ever did it again starting tomorrow the world would be essentially unchanged.
We couldn't get rid of him for being a Russian stooge and breaking the law to cover it up. How would we get rid of him for simply being bad at his job?
Warren says she would agree to be Biden's running mate. That plus a little presidential succession and we could still come out of this with a good president.
S___ works for the public library system. Lately all she had been doing was recording reading time videos for kids here in the house. This week though the library 'volunteered' their employees to help out at MIFA, delivering meals where they are needed. Yesterday she had to take a whole bunch of meals to an old folks home in Raleigh (black folk) and she said there was nobody working the desk, no attendant of any kind so she and her co-worker had to go inside and hand everything out. She was understandably freaked out. And I'm a little pissed that she's being made to volunteer.
He's such a straight-down-the-middle candidate, I feel sure that he'll go with conventional wisdom and pick a veep from the south or west. But hey, I'll be very happy if he does pick Liz.
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I thought "Oh dear, we're fucked!"
Regulators have given banks the green light to use stimulus funds to pay off debts that individuals owe them.
And if the testing remains as limited as it is now, we can keep the number of virus casualties at a reasonably low number.
And another thing -
If our dictator decides to kill the postal service, mail-in ballots become much more problematic.
I should be trying to learn the next guitar lesson...or exercising.
Just don't associate work with self-worth. Work is something we have to do to pay the bills and that's it.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Trump supporters.
Different people have different levels of anxiety about being out, that is some bullshit to force it.