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Apr. 4th, 2020 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stresskittenIt is now officially 2 weeks of doing the 100 challenge.
I'm still at it. After 4 days of crunches to rest my spiky-pain abs, I switched back to full sit-ups.
Day 1:
50 push ups (sets of 10)
50 sit ups (sets of 10
Day 14:
100 push ups (sets of 15)
65 sit ups (sets of 13)
125 squats (sets of 25)
Okay... I'll admit it. It is definitely making a difference. Those numbers don't lie.
Speaking of other numbers that don't lie, the Covid numbers in BC are continuing to look good. We now have fewer active cases than we did before by a small handful. Barring people starting to be stupid again, it looks like we might possibly at the peak of the curve.
For the record: Dr. Bonnie Henry (our Provincial Health Officer) is one of the most amazing communicators I've ever had the privilege to witness. Not only is she thoroughly knowledgeable about the science and the reasoning behind the decisions she's making, but she also is able to fully and adequately answer questions asked of her, citing previous experiences in BC and ongoing, updating knowledge with no hesitation of speech and no talking around a point and not actually answering it.
Also, she kinda looks like she's recently had a good night's sleep, so I'm going to take that as a very positive sign. There was a week or so where she was looking exhausted and like there'd been a lot of long, stresseful nights. She looks carefully optimisitc, while constantly stressing that "IT COULD STILL ALL GO SIDEWAYS... SO STAY THE FUCK AT HOMW" in the nicest possible way. There is a chance it's in one of our prisons now, which will be something of a pain in the ass... oddly, despite their purpose of incarceration, prisons are not a great place to try and lock down a virus, so we could see another uptick in cases before the end.
Still think schools are probably closed for the year.
Setting up for online schooling has been... interesting. We had a staff meeting on Office 365... I knew a co-worker of mine, she of the hyperventilating tears, would be stressing out about connecting to that, so I texted her that morning about an hour and a half before our meeting was to start, to ask if she wanted to practice. Set up and sent an email to her inviting her to join the practice meeting. She connected pretty easily, and I was able to walk her through how to use her mic and her video. And then, because the meeting apparently goes live in the main TEAM chat, and it was titled "Practice Meeting", I started having other teachers logging in to the meeting. I ended up spending 45 minutes in that meeting as people logged in and out and practiced setting up their mics and cameras and seeing what to expect, continually walking people through it. I'm glad it was so useful to everyone's sanity. Both my vice-principal and principal thanked me for setting it up, which I found a little amusing since I'd done it completely accidentally.
There was something else I wanted to say, but I can't remember it now. Maybe tomorrow. :-) Hope you're all staying healthy and safe out there.
I'm still at it. After 4 days of crunches to rest my spiky-pain abs, I switched back to full sit-ups.
Day 1:
50 push ups (sets of 10)
50 sit ups (sets of 10
Day 14:
100 push ups (sets of 15)
65 sit ups (sets of 13)
125 squats (sets of 25)
Okay... I'll admit it. It is definitely making a difference. Those numbers don't lie.
Speaking of other numbers that don't lie, the Covid numbers in BC are continuing to look good. We now have fewer active cases than we did before by a small handful. Barring people starting to be stupid again, it looks like we might possibly at the peak of the curve.
For the record: Dr. Bonnie Henry (our Provincial Health Officer) is one of the most amazing communicators I've ever had the privilege to witness. Not only is she thoroughly knowledgeable about the science and the reasoning behind the decisions she's making, but she also is able to fully and adequately answer questions asked of her, citing previous experiences in BC and ongoing, updating knowledge with no hesitation of speech and no talking around a point and not actually answering it.
Also, she kinda looks like she's recently had a good night's sleep, so I'm going to take that as a very positive sign. There was a week or so where she was looking exhausted and like there'd been a lot of long, stresseful nights. She looks carefully optimisitc, while constantly stressing that "IT COULD STILL ALL GO SIDEWAYS... SO STAY THE FUCK AT HOMW" in the nicest possible way. There is a chance it's in one of our prisons now, which will be something of a pain in the ass... oddly, despite their purpose of incarceration, prisons are not a great place to try and lock down a virus, so we could see another uptick in cases before the end.
Still think schools are probably closed for the year.
Setting up for online schooling has been... interesting. We had a staff meeting on Office 365... I knew a co-worker of mine, she of the hyperventilating tears, would be stressing out about connecting to that, so I texted her that morning about an hour and a half before our meeting was to start, to ask if she wanted to practice. Set up and sent an email to her inviting her to join the practice meeting. She connected pretty easily, and I was able to walk her through how to use her mic and her video. And then, because the meeting apparently goes live in the main TEAM chat, and it was titled "Practice Meeting", I started having other teachers logging in to the meeting. I ended up spending 45 minutes in that meeting as people logged in and out and practiced setting up their mics and cameras and seeing what to expect, continually walking people through it. I'm glad it was so useful to everyone's sanity. Both my vice-principal and principal thanked me for setting it up, which I found a little amusing since I'd done it completely accidentally.
There was something else I wanted to say, but I can't remember it now. Maybe tomorrow. :-) Hope you're all staying healthy and safe out there.