- I told my nail technician about the forest preserve where everyone is hiding rocks right now and she went there for a walk with her daughter and look at her rock haul! I was so excited she found all these, and that she text me about it. I didn’t have her number at the beginning of the pandemic and it really bugged me that I couldn’t directly check in with her. I’m glad I have it now and as someone who tends to be overbearing, I’m really proud of myself for not bugging her <– sad but true. I’ve really stepped back on reaching out to people because I’m a bit much but also…
- … I’m so burnt out from being in meetings and talking to people all day at work that I don’t feel like being social after work. Sorry if you’ve chatted with me lately and gotten deflated Kim in return.
- If you use gmail, do you have the “nudges” options turned on – where it brings emails to the top of your inbox that you haven’t responded to or gotten responses back on? I just turned it back on for responses back to emails I’ve sent because I couldn’t keep track of all the requests I’ve been sending out in my head anymore, and my calendar was full of reminders to follow up with people.
- When I found out my library card was expiring I requested hard copy books so I’d have things to read when I didn’t have a card, but now they’re all due and can’t be renewed and I feel very guilty that I still have them – even though there are not late fees and the only penalty to overdue books is you can’t take out more material (which I can’t anyway). I am such a rule follower, it really bothers me. But I haven’t taken them back yet <– insert cat making home alone face.
- I’m sad to say, when podcast listening, I haven’t prioritized my reading podcasts since I don’t have a library card anymore. Eek! I’ll get back to them (and Libby (our e-library) may still work – I haven’t checked).
- I haven’t talked about what we’ve been watching lately. Now that we have Discovery+ our lunch time show is Treehouse Masters which is a lot of fun, even though it’s incredibly formulaic (so far). The only bad part is that I can’t successfully paint and watch it – I really need to see what they’re doing to appreciate the show!
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Wow she found some fun ones! I think people are really stepping it up since you started doing such bomb ones!!!
Aww, thanks! I have seen so many great ones in the group lately!
Can’t you get a new library card? I’ve never heard of them expiring when people are using them.
Yes, I just have to start paying $154 a year for it. The library deserves that money but I am super salty my taxes don’t pay it so I am waiting a while before I renew.
I haven’t seen people in a year and I definitely feel the “social” fatigue from Video Calls… so weird.
Yes, I love the gmail “nudge” function…
Oh yeah. I remember in the beginning when everyone was doing them thinking right away “this is not gonna last!”
I am so glad they have those labs (or what used to be called labs). I love “undo send,” even though it just gives me a 30 second send delay.
KIM! I finally get caught up on Currently Reading and you’re not listening along with me?!?! WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ME GETTING CAUGHT UP?!?! I kid, I kid. I totally understand why you stepped away from reading podcasts for now. Too much temptation! Although I keep forgetting to tell you that I finally started listening to The Popcast! I decided to give them a second shot and I’m really enjoying it. (Do you subscribe to their Patreon? I’m debating if I should.)
KEEP THOSE LIBRARY BOOKS, GIRL. (But I understand. My library system still has fines and it keeps me in line, lol.)
I have the nudges option turned on, and I only remember that because I get aggravated when gmail sends me a nudge. It just reminds me that I’m a bad email responder! Ha.
Ha ha ha! I know! I thought of you when I wrote this! I will get back to it 🙂 I am glad you are liking The Popcast! I do support on Patreon and am a BFOT. I think it’s worth it – I don’t do the Bachelor stuff, but love the rest, and listen to it each week.
I am going to try to, but it’s making me feel so bad!
It aggravated me when it was telling me I didn’t respond to stuff too – that is why I turned it off! (I still left that part turned off LOL.)
Zoom fatigue. It’s real.
See if you can access this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/03/03/stanford-zoom-fatigue/
Their primary source for the article just published a paper on it, too. It’s apparently open-access if you feel like nerding out on this. 😉
https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/nonverbal-overload/release/1
(I hate video calls… although I will say that a lot of times I have “bandwidth issues” [which I often do!] that require me to turn off my video so my audio will work… don’t tell, okay?) Also, “self view” is the bane of my existence.
Ooo, thanks for the link! That all makes SO much sense for me. It was funny people rushed to video and way more meetings, when we weren’t really prepared for it. I am wondering if there will ever be a work backlash and cutback on it? There has definitely been socially, which I totally saw coming (it cracked me up that first week of pandemic when people rushed to set up Zoom calls). I will have to nerd out on the research later!
I used to legit have bandwidth issues!!! It made me nuts, cause I could not get audio to even worked, and even lost connection during a job interview. I actually don’t mind video when it’s useful though, and like seeing my coworkers. I am just in way too many meetings!!!