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corona diary

Corona Diary: Work

written by Jana April 30, 2020

SIP Day 41, wearing a green striped top and tan linen crops, writing from the living room couch; 73 degrees outside today

It is very rare that I’ve ever written about work on my blog and I am not sure that I plan to change that in the future. But it seemed right to mention a few things today.

I enjoy my work as an IT Director for Chapman University and I take it very seriously. I wouldn’t say that I am a workaholic but others sometimes observe to me that I work a lot. My work is not hard, but it is consuming and I like to do it well. Also, I feel what I do is important and that I can make a difference and that drives some of my persistence about work-related tasks.

My role in the past six weeks has been particularly challenging due to moving the faculty from teaching face-to-face to teaching online. It has given me more than enough to do to fill the days at home and has caused the days to slide by incredibly quickly. I start the day on camera with a Teams meeting in my home office and often find myself sitting in that same chair eight hours later after back-to-back meetings. Many weekends I am also sitting in that same chair doing grading, class prep, or solving work-related problems.

During S-I-P Stijn has also been working while at home and the two of us are generally on opposite ends of the house in Zoom/Teams calls. We meet for lunch and occasionally bump into each other while using the restroom or getting a drink of water. It’s great to get to eat in the garden together nearly everyday, but this also means that work is an ever-present part of nearly every waking hour because work happens in my own living space. So as much as I enjoy the short commute and lunch hour with my spouse, I will relish the moment when I can, once, again, leave my work “at the office” and come home.

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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