Pressing against my bones
Oct. 27th, 2020 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12I woke up this morning feeling a rumbling sense of anxiety, and the feeling didn't really dissipate for the entire day.
It doesn't help that cases here are rising sharply and we're probably on the verge of being moved into Tier 2 lockdown. This is incredibly frustrating: from March, when things locked down and the students were sent home, until the new academic year (with students in residence) began, cases here were so incredibly low, and it feels like all that was just thrown away in weeks. Unfortunately, the students are mostly to blame — they keep having illegal parties in their residences, and cases keep spreading. Apparently the rumour is that one college had a party, there were subsequent positive cases, and the entire college went into lockdown.
I still don't know any people here in Cambridge who have the virus, but a friend in Birmingham finally got diagnosed with 'long COVID' (she's had it for eight months), and two friends in Poznań in Poland also announced that they have it. Their experiences have been utterly wretched.
In slightly better news, I opened my work inbox yesterday to discover that the students had nominated me for a teaching award. These are entirely student-nominated, and the text they'd written in support of my nomination was so nice! It was a really lovely piece of news with which to start the week, and it felt fabulous to see my work recognised in this way.
I'll close this post out with some music — an absolutely beautiful live performance by Four Tet, in the Sydney Opera House, which was just about the only thing that made a dent in my anxiety today. Music, as always, is one of the few things that quietens my noisy mind, and soothes the sea inside.
It doesn't help that cases here are rising sharply and we're probably on the verge of being moved into Tier 2 lockdown. This is incredibly frustrating: from March, when things locked down and the students were sent home, until the new academic year (with students in residence) began, cases here were so incredibly low, and it feels like all that was just thrown away in weeks. Unfortunately, the students are mostly to blame — they keep having illegal parties in their residences, and cases keep spreading. Apparently the rumour is that one college had a party, there were subsequent positive cases, and the entire college went into lockdown.
I still don't know any people here in Cambridge who have the virus, but a friend in Birmingham finally got diagnosed with 'long COVID' (she's had it for eight months), and two friends in Poznań in Poland also announced that they have it. Their experiences have been utterly wretched.
In slightly better news, I opened my work inbox yesterday to discover that the students had nominated me for a teaching award. These are entirely student-nominated, and the text they'd written in support of my nomination was so nice! It was a really lovely piece of news with which to start the week, and it felt fabulous to see my work recognised in this way.
I'll close this post out with some music — an absolutely beautiful live performance by Four Tet, in the Sydney Opera House, which was just about the only thing that made a dent in my anxiety today. Music, as always, is one of the few things that quietens my noisy mind, and soothes the sea inside.
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