Day 24 of Governor Newsom’s “Blueprint for a Safer Economy”

Sunday. 9/21/20

9:00- 12:00 - a bird wakes me up, but it’s better than the dog. B. and I lay in the tent until around 10:00, then I emerge and make us coffee since I brought my Keurig from home. I take a shower and B. watches a documentary that I assigned my students [A Class Apart]. Dressed and light make-up, we have our coffee at his patio table and gaze at his golf-course backyard.

12:00 - 1:00 - We watch the first episode of Ratched - prequel to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. So far so good - highly recommend at this point.

1:00 - 4:00 - I leave and once home I set about assembling the majority of the exterior Halloween decorations. I use the ladder for a lot of it and when I’m done, it looks pretty good. L. will come behind and put the lights in the bushes and assemble our animal graveyard.

4:00 - 5:00 - I eat a turkey burger left over from last night and some chips that B. gave me. I read An Only Child and Her Sister

5:00-5:30 - I unpack a few items that I brought to B.’s house.

5:30-7:00 - I prepare my notes for tomorrow’s lecture, update my PP slides, and select audio clips.

7:00-9:00 - I do extensive yard work. The yard was looking extremely shabby, what with the tons of leaves scattered all over the place. Now it’s back to normal, only to be destroyed in a couple of days by leaves. Autumn.

9:00-9:30 - I take the dog for a walk.

L. returns home from Irvine after visiting her friend, C. She relays that the malls are open in Orange County and she was able to purchase a product from Bath and Body Works, a store that happens to be closed in our neighborhood, two streets over, because OUR mall is shuttered. This is so weird - none of this makes any sense.

9:30 - 10:00 - I really need to get a workout in, so I start the app and watch the workout, hoping I will feel more motivated to begin. Nope. I read Money Diaries instead.

10:00-11:00 - I do more packing for my upcoming trip.

11:00-12:00 - I do a 1-hr Full Body Circuit app with 5-pound weights.

12:00 - 2:30 - L. says that she is leaving before 10:00 a.m. tomorrow and will be in and out of the house on account of Door Dash. Class starts at 2:30 tomorrow and I really need to finish recording and post this to Canvas so I can accommodate L.’s schedule. I finalize my lecture notes, PP slides, and audio clips, and record lecture.

2:30 - 3:30 - I tend to a few college maintenance items.

3:30-4:30 - Night time routine. Bed.