The Weekly Wrap-Up: April 13-17, 2020
I had a conversation with one of my coworkers today. (In person, from a safe distance, not online. We're some of the few but proud in the office.) Anyway, she was talking about reading people's letters and feeling jealous at the many mentions of how much time people have now to spend time with God and enjoy the silence.
I could empathize. Silence and time are not things I have to spare right now. I was able to write a prayer letter of my own this week, which will hopefully be out to you soon. I also created the style templates for Vietnamese, so as soon as the transfiles come in, we can start formatting that language. I also finished another group of English F. We had a prayer rally on Wednesday, which was nice because I got to see a lot of people I haven't, but I'm getting Zoombified. And it's not going to stop anytime soon.
Next week, we have four days of testing for the ECC Zoominar. Then the week after, we have the actual Zoominar. Somewhere in between all of that, I have new booklets to format for Mizo Chin and two versions of Spanish. We didn't get them done in the normal flow of things since they weren't written yet. I also got a new assignment for editing VCP lessons. Time management is definitely the current buzzword.
It feels dumb to talk about how busy I am right now. There are people who are certainly busier and doing more dangerous work than I. All I have to do is walk a few minutes to my warm office and wear something halfway decent for video chats. It's not like I had an active social life before all of this began, so I'm definitely not missing much. Now that it's warm-ish outside, I can walk through the neighborhood and smell some literal roses every once in a while.
But it's draining. All of this is so draining, physically, mentally, emotionally... My social media is such an odd dichotomy of people. There are those who talk about how bored they are. They've caught up on all of their shows, they've read until their eyes bleed, they sleep until noon and then take an afternoon nap, and they are learning fifty thousand new skills. Then, there are those who are exhausted from looking after their kids, or haven't seen their kids in weeks because they don't want to risk infecting them, or they are trying to figure out how to pay their bills and file for unemployment.
And I'm just ... somewhere in the middle. I'm thankful for what I have, please don't misunderstand me. My paycheck is assured for the moment, I am definitely not bored, and I'm taking the precautions necessary to stay relatively healthy. But I'm jealous of the people who can take the time to relax and spend extra time with God. And I'm feeling guilty for feeling relieved at having so little change from my daily life.
So yeah. That's how things are going right now.
I feel like I need to prove that I do still smile every once in a while, so here's a picture of me and my new purple hair.
Bye!
I could empathize. Silence and time are not things I have to spare right now. I was able to write a prayer letter of my own this week, which will hopefully be out to you soon. I also created the style templates for Vietnamese, so as soon as the transfiles come in, we can start formatting that language. I also finished another group of English F. We had a prayer rally on Wednesday, which was nice because I got to see a lot of people I haven't, but I'm getting Zoombified. And it's not going to stop anytime soon.
Next week, we have four days of testing for the ECC Zoominar. Then the week after, we have the actual Zoominar. Somewhere in between all of that, I have new booklets to format for Mizo Chin and two versions of Spanish. We didn't get them done in the normal flow of things since they weren't written yet. I also got a new assignment for editing VCP lessons. Time management is definitely the current buzzword.
It feels dumb to talk about how busy I am right now. There are people who are certainly busier and doing more dangerous work than I. All I have to do is walk a few minutes to my warm office and wear something halfway decent for video chats. It's not like I had an active social life before all of this began, so I'm definitely not missing much. Now that it's warm-ish outside, I can walk through the neighborhood and smell some literal roses every once in a while.
But it's draining. All of this is so draining, physically, mentally, emotionally... My social media is such an odd dichotomy of people. There are those who talk about how bored they are. They've caught up on all of their shows, they've read until their eyes bleed, they sleep until noon and then take an afternoon nap, and they are learning fifty thousand new skills. Then, there are those who are exhausted from looking after their kids, or haven't seen their kids in weeks because they don't want to risk infecting them, or they are trying to figure out how to pay their bills and file for unemployment.
And I'm just ... somewhere in the middle. I'm thankful for what I have, please don't misunderstand me. My paycheck is assured for the moment, I am definitely not bored, and I'm taking the precautions necessary to stay relatively healthy. But I'm jealous of the people who can take the time to relax and spend extra time with God. And I'm feeling guilty for feeling relieved at having so little change from my daily life.
So yeah. That's how things are going right now.
I feel like I need to prove that I do still smile every once in a while, so here's a picture of me and my new purple hair.
Bye!