Day 66 of Governor Newsom’s “Blueprint for a Safer Economy”
Highly recommend this series…
Sunday. 11/1/20.
11:00 - 12:00 - I don’t get out of bed until 11:00, especially since I’m at B.’s house and there is no dog to attend to. B. leaves for Starbucks and I take a shower. Covid-19 uniform. Light make-up.
12:00 - 2:00 - B. returns and I have coffee, a croissant, and fruit for “brunch.” B. has something??? We sit outside on his patio, talk politics, and look out over his golf-course backyard.
2:00-4:00 - B. suggests we watch Tehran, a new series that he recently binge-watched. I watch episodes 1 and 2 - the series is quite good! Highly recommend. I leave a short time later and stop off at Food 4 Less for some spinach. After I leave, I get caught in a “Trump caravan” on Soledad and I’m stuck there for 45 minutes. The trucks are filled with screaming white males carrying Mike Garcia and Trump signs. They are loud, aggressive, and frightening. Finally, I make it back to my own zip code - ‘NIMBY’ [not in my backyard] and it’s quiet again. Later, I will hear that a Trump caravan ran a Biden/Harris campaign bus off the road. This was encouraged by the president at one of his rallies. It’s called voter intimidation and it’s a felony.
4:30-5:30 - Home and I have leftovers from Portos that L. purchased for her and R. after yesterday’s hair appointment.
5:30 - 6:30 - Trash day tomorrow so I empty all of our indoor trash, then put the trash cans to the curb. Kitchen duty. I have tickets for the Huntington tomorrow so I make breakfast and lunch and pack my lunch bag.
7:00-8:30 - L. and I watch the next episode of Halloween Wars and she tells me how Halloween went last night.
8:30-10:00 - I have a morning class tomorrow, from 8:00-10:05, and Specialty Class No. 1 from 2:30-5:30. However, my Huntington tickets are for 12:30. I need to get everything ready, well in advance of the afternoon class, because I’m leaving at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. I field emails from College No. 2, then review my script and PP slides. I email my slides to L. so she can convert them to Google slides, then make adjustments to my script. I decide to add a podcast to lecture.
10:00-11:30 - I download audio clips from You Tube and ready them for recording. I edit my script a bit more.
11:30-1:30 - I record lecture. It’s one of my longest lectures to date - I’m covering Communism and Post-Communism.
1:30-2:00 a.m. - I check email and see that L. has converted my PP slides to Google slides. I’m not happy with the finished product so we’ll need to have a discussion. I shut everything down, take the dog outside, and see if L. is still awake so she can airdrop my lecture into Canvas. She’s not, so I guess we’ll do everything tomorrow.
2:00-3:00 a.m. - Nighttime routine. Bed.