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excellente Well. A week was a week was a week. If last week things felt like they'd changed rapidly, this week even more so. On Monday the Prime Minister had a press conference to announce our Alert Level status (something introduced on the Saturday - 1 being the lowest, 4 being the highest, we'd been at 2 since then). We pretty much all knew it would be going up, since typically the head of the Ministry of Health would touch on it during his briefing, but he'd deferred it to her.
We didn't expect it to go up as much as it did. We immediately went up to a level 3: public institutions would close, affected schools would close, people should work from home if possible. Then, she announced, as of 11:59PM Wednesday the country would be at Alert Level 4 for at least 4 weeks. All non-essential (eg supermarkets, pharmacies etc) would close. People are allowed out of their houses for the necessities, or for a walk, but aren't supposed to leave their neighbourhoods (if possible) and cannot be within 2 metres of people outside of their household "bubble".
We're in lockdown. It was intense. All this and I still didn't have my test results. I didn't actually get them until Wednesday afternoon (negative!) and got immediately called in to help at my family pharmacy. I was there the whole next day as well. Friday I had to stay home and try and get through some of the work from my actual job that I hadn't managed to get through earlier in the week due to being a mess due to well. All of the above.
I'm including all of this because it's the context for my writing this past week, and also my plans for next week.
I managed to do 400+ words on 5/7 days which given everything, I'm happy with. It was definitely a struggle though. Now that my March challenge is over, I'm going into april trying to be really aware of the fact that everything is wild and I'm going to be unbearably busy (still have my regular job - part time) and will now also be working as a trainee pharmacy tech part time. fun) and need to work with that.
I'm not having daily word goals other than 'any' to begin with. I need to set the bar lower for a couple of reasons:
For my nano it's much the same. I've finally reached a point in the story I was really excited to right that needs to be done well and I would rather wait until I can give it the attention it needs. There's also the fact that I just really need to put the effort into fake marriage!au if I'm going to keep updating regularly.
We didn't expect it to go up as much as it did. We immediately went up to a level 3: public institutions would close, affected schools would close, people should work from home if possible. Then, she announced, as of 11:59PM Wednesday the country would be at Alert Level 4 for at least 4 weeks. All non-essential (eg supermarkets, pharmacies etc) would close. People are allowed out of their houses for the necessities, or for a walk, but aren't supposed to leave their neighbourhoods (if possible) and cannot be within 2 metres of people outside of their household "bubble".
We're in lockdown. It was intense. All this and I still didn't have my test results. I didn't actually get them until Wednesday afternoon (negative!) and got immediately called in to help at my family pharmacy. I was there the whole next day as well. Friday I had to stay home and try and get through some of the work from my actual job that I hadn't managed to get through earlier in the week due to being a mess due to well. All of the above.
I'm including all of this because it's the context for my writing this past week, and also my plans for next week.
- Mon 23/3 473
- Tue 24/3 400
- Wed 25/3 410
- Thu 26/3 178
- Fri 27/3 431
- Sat 28/3 189
- Sun 29/3 435
I managed to do 400+ words on 5/7 days which given everything, I'm happy with. It was definitely a struggle though. Now that my March challenge is over, I'm going into april trying to be really aware of the fact that everything is wild and I'm going to be unbearably busy (still have my regular job - part time) and will now also be working as a trainee pharmacy tech part time. fun) and need to work with that.
I'm not having daily word goals other than 'any' to begin with. I need to set the bar lower for a couple of reasons:
- I just don't have faith that I'll have the energy for it
- I also don't have the mental space for doing the thinking and planning that allows that - though I am hoping to take more walks and do thinking on those
- I'm already a week late for my fake marriage!au update, and the next chapter to post needs a lot of editing (as do six and seven lmao) which means I won't have as much time to write)
For my nano it's much the same. I've finally reached a point in the story I was really excited to right that needs to be done well and I would rather wait until I can give it the attention it needs. There's also the fact that I just really need to put the effort into fake marriage!au if I'm going to keep updating regularly.
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