We just got an emergency alert via our mobile phones that the City of Chicago is closing down the lakefront, beaches etc, which I think is a good idea.
I’ve been pretty busy with shifting my teaching to online. Our community college district shifted pretty quickly as things turned, and faculty have really risen to the occasion. This week I’ve had video sessions with students, and I’ve been greatly inspired by students wanting to persist with the semester despite these difficult circumstances. What is worrisome is finding food and supplies. I haven’t been out in 10 days expect for a 30 minute walk in an empty park. I’m not that keen on going to the store, but I will have to in the next few days, and, of course, I will take precautions. Ordering online is great, but so much is out of stock and the wait times can sometimes be a bit long, but it just requires us to do a bit of rationing and be smart about how we use up supplies. A constant refrain in the house is “we’ll just have to make do,” which everyone around the world is saying. Also, we have some friends who are nurses, and I have some students whose mom’s are nurses, so we’re very worried about them. There are women everywhere in America sewing cotton face masks for hospitals. Maybe you’ve seen the calls for face masks on Facebook. I’d love to stitch some up since I have sewing skills, but my school work has my time pretty occupied. Maybe I can stitch some up week after next, since we will be on spring break. Christine > On Mar 23, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I’ve been pretty cautious about going out, about being in contact with > others. But today the governor of our state issued a strong Stay At Home > order effective through April 13. Still ok to go out for food and meds but > otherwise Stay Home. > > I’ve decided there is nothing else I can do, and so will try to ignore what > is happening elsewhere and start putting together some Blurb books, catching > up on travels I have done over the last 7 years. > > I do have a new camera arriving from Adorama tomorrow, a Ricoh WG-70, but I > am thinking I will not be anyplace to fully take advantage of its features… > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
