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For many people, the pandemic put travel plans on pause. What about you? Are you traveling, or planning to travel, again? If so, when, where, and under what conditions?
Since my husband is undergoing cancer treatments, and is awaiting (hopefully) a chance to get a second booster, we're not traveling in person. Instead, we've established a pandemic-induced routine of reading aloud to each other. We've explored China at the time of Mao's Revolution, explored Orwell's British countryside and home, and are about to go to Chicago's World Fair via Erik Larson. We treasure this daily ritual, and it's something we wouldn't have thought of doing, were it not for the pandemic.
February 4, 2022
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Talk about how the events of recent months have affected either your work or your ability to work.
I am a graduate student taking courses remotely from China. We are 13 hours ahead of EST which means we have to take courses at midnight if we want to have the live version. I have kept the "bat lady" kind of lifestyle for 2 months and I decided to change it for the rest of the semester and go back to my normal rhythm. Staying up late for a long period makes me feel difficult to pay attention to studies and feel tired more frequently than before. I think the pandemic has emphasized enough about how important health is. So I decide to make some changes!
November 10, 2020