Here we are at the beginning of #CoronaQuarantine week 2. I know I talked about this last week but what else is there to talk about? We can't go outside, those of us with kids have become homeschool teachers along with our full time jobs and teleconferencing has become all the rage.
Fear not though. This is not a doom and gloom post. I'm going to highlight a few of the good things that have come out of the last week.
Zoom/Skype/Facetime- I already joked about teleconferencing but it really has been great. I've been able to do a bunch of sessions with clients and at least keep my business going. Not only that, it's also been a social revelation. Over the last two nights I've had two different Zoom sessions with different sets of friends. It was awesome; it was like we were in a bar shooting the shit as though the world was not about to end. (My bad, no doom and gloom.)
Family Time- There have definitely been a number of times where Alli & I have imagined what this would be like without kids. That being said, it's been cool to hang out all of us together. We've watched movies, eaten dinner together and taken nice walks (obviously observing social distancing rules). Turns out my family is actually pretty cool to be around. Who knew?
Generosity- I spend a lot of time of Facebook and I'm in all sorts of Facebook groups (including my own). While there has been the typical amount of negativity that social media brings, I feel like there's been triple the amount of kind acts. I know one local parent group I'm in raised $6000 for medical supplies to donate to a local hospital. People are also donating time trying to figure out ways to buy groceries for seniors and other stuff. Good job people, keep it up.
Instagram Live Music- Last night legendary DJs DJ Premiere, Tony Touch and Lord Finesse were all doing live sets at the same time. (These names only mean something if you listen hip hop/rap and are at least 30 years old but still...) 15 years ago I would've have paid a large sum of money to be at a party where those 3 guys were playing. Last night I got it for free...on my couch. I like rap so that's what I'm clued into but I imagine this is happening with other genres also.
That's just a few of the good surprises that I noticed in the last week. And as I write this I'm realizing something else: social distancing may be making us more social. Weird.
