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August 2020 Update
5 years ago
What a crazy summer it's been.
Not in a busy sense, of course. I barely leave my apartment anymore. Despite living in a pretty rural college town, my county hasn't been the safest when it comes to the pandemic. It's only within the past couple weeks where people are finally STARTING to wear masks more often that not. It's aggravating.
Tomorrow marks the end of my lay off and return to work after five months. I have many opinions on whether we should be opening (we shouldn't), but I'm a lowly prep cook so my opinion is invalid. I'm worried for many reasons: I work at one of the few colleges I know of in Ohio that are opening for in-person classes. They "trust the students to social distance and be responsible," and yet my college has a rampant party/sex/drinking culture that's just unreal. Half of our downtown is all bars that every night are packs to the gills, so I'm honestly not anticipating being open for longer than a month. But I worry I may catch it as it tears through the campus like a match to tissue paper.
As for work itself: my personal job isn't going to change much. Many of the COVID cleaning procedures we're adopting I was already doing. The worst part is going to be the hours. They slashed the hours for almost every other venue except mine, which they extended by 5 and a half hours every day, so I'm going to be BUSY. Expect my art productivity to decline.
Speaking of: I feel like I haven't been as productive as I should have been while laid off. "Should have been" is a nasty way to put it. America instills productivity above all else into people early on, and we have been in the midst of a global pandemic, so perhaps I shouldn't be too harsh on myself. But when the lockdowns began, I was incredibly productive: 22 uploads in the first month, but in the four since then, I've only uploaded 38 pieces. Kind of a personal let down.
News on the Patreon front: I've been doing twice-a-week uploads during most of my lay off. Unfortunately that is going to return to the original "once a week" schedule uploads on Thursday. I still have some cool stuff lined up, so if you feel like it, check out my Patreon:
http://www.patreon.com/lordfenrir
I'm going to try to continue working on art and writing, but if it slows down I apologize. I'm probably exhausted. I've been exhausted for months. I miss my friends and family, I'm depressed there haven't been any conventions to hang out with people, I'm disappointed in my country for just failing to get a handle on this situation, I'm just tired.
Bleh, I should make some dinner and rest for tomorrow. I care about all of you, please be healthy and safe
Til next time, peace out.
~L.F.
Not in a busy sense, of course. I barely leave my apartment anymore. Despite living in a pretty rural college town, my county hasn't been the safest when it comes to the pandemic. It's only within the past couple weeks where people are finally STARTING to wear masks more often that not. It's aggravating.
Tomorrow marks the end of my lay off and return to work after five months. I have many opinions on whether we should be opening (we shouldn't), but I'm a lowly prep cook so my opinion is invalid. I'm worried for many reasons: I work at one of the few colleges I know of in Ohio that are opening for in-person classes. They "trust the students to social distance and be responsible," and yet my college has a rampant party/sex/drinking culture that's just unreal. Half of our downtown is all bars that every night are packs to the gills, so I'm honestly not anticipating being open for longer than a month. But I worry I may catch it as it tears through the campus like a match to tissue paper.
As for work itself: my personal job isn't going to change much. Many of the COVID cleaning procedures we're adopting I was already doing. The worst part is going to be the hours. They slashed the hours for almost every other venue except mine, which they extended by 5 and a half hours every day, so I'm going to be BUSY. Expect my art productivity to decline.
Speaking of: I feel like I haven't been as productive as I should have been while laid off. "Should have been" is a nasty way to put it. America instills productivity above all else into people early on, and we have been in the midst of a global pandemic, so perhaps I shouldn't be too harsh on myself. But when the lockdowns began, I was incredibly productive: 22 uploads in the first month, but in the four since then, I've only uploaded 38 pieces. Kind of a personal let down.
News on the Patreon front: I've been doing twice-a-week uploads during most of my lay off. Unfortunately that is going to return to the original "once a week" schedule uploads on Thursday. I still have some cool stuff lined up, so if you feel like it, check out my Patreon:
http://www.patreon.com/lordfenrir
I'm going to try to continue working on art and writing, but if it slows down I apologize. I'm probably exhausted. I've been exhausted for months. I miss my friends and family, I'm depressed there haven't been any conventions to hang out with people, I'm disappointed in my country for just failing to get a handle on this situation, I'm just tired.
Bleh, I should make some dinner and rest for tomorrow. I care about all of you, please be healthy and safe
Til next time, peace out.
~L.F.
- Xi Yao