Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
I have no idea what to write about today as really nothing happened.
The day was filled with work and just I thought we had a great opportunity to develop a project I may have to kill it due to sponsor issues. We will dig deeper, but chances are the institution is untouchable, which would be a great shame as I found the CEO inspiring and very visionary. It is very likely that we will encounter similar issues with most of the entities in my latest focal country. Oh well, it is what it is.
Coping with all the eggs we dyed for EM’s Easter egg hunt, which the BF was too exhausted to join, I decided to make a mustard sauce. This combined with the boiled eggs and the left-over green beans from yesterday’s feast made for light lunch, appropriate to today’s warm weather.
We reached 24C! Not that I enjoyed much of that during the day, until I headed to the pool that is where I enjoyed a fifty-minute swim with EM as the lifeguard on duty. That was somewhat strange. Of course, she could not refrain from making faces at my backstroke and had a lot to say about my breaststroke too; seems I need to be more submerged than I am. I attribute the lack of emergence to my butt, after all fat floats!
I did get to enjoy the warm evening air at practice in the park today. Practice was all about up-down rather than forward up or forward down. After ten months in the park though we are all a little anxious about returning to open hand practice. If the weather holds, we may have our first beer wazza in a year after class next week.
She is still, after three weeks and countless emails, waiting for guidance from her math teacher on her internal assessment. She feels she needs to do more but is not sure what more. At this stage I am rather outraged, so have written to the math teacher and obviously received no response. I have then written to the grade level administrator and have not received a response. Today I finally wrote to the IB coordinator asking her for help. With her I am on good terms as we are helping her to organize the IB Diploma Graduation celebration, alas without the IA there shall be no celebration for us, so someone from the school had better respond and soon.
So, all in all just a very normal day in the life of Corona. Numbers in the USA are sadly on the rise again, with mainly younger people infected as most of the elderly have already been inoculated. The past twenty-four hours saw an increase of 79k, which is 10k more than the previous day, bringing the total to 31.5 million. There is less in the media these days about the spread and more forward looking information.
As we emerge from lock downs some encourage us to retain 20% of our energy levels and avoid overextending ourselves following the Confucian teaching hara hachi bu. Often translated as "eat until you're 80 percent full," for our purposes the idea might be better thought of as the "80 Percent Energy Rule."The people of Okinawa live by this rule and many turn 100 and older.
Not that I would ever want to get that old but applying it to use of my energy may not be a bad thing. For some reason I feel utterly exhausted today.