Hello, villagers ~
Checking in ==
Thursday at work was insanely busy because we were still trying to get caught up after holiday closures. Enough said.
From yesterday 11:00AM until today 10:30AM I attended what was supposed to be a 25-hour webinar marathon of sewing classes. (I attended this same online event a year ago.) Yes, I stayed awake over 24 hours, in spite of still having a cold. It was mostly fun and I have many pages of notes with instructions for small projects and tips to make sewing easier. It was organized as livestream of instructors teaching a variety of topics, 10 minute breaks between each class, and constant live chat window (text only) for asking questions and general conversation with other attendees.
I say mostly fun because
(1) Even in something like this, there are a few mean-spirited people who cause stress for everyone else. Whenever one of them in the chat started complaining, I tried to change the subject by asking a question or making a positive comment about a class topic.
(2) The live stream abruptly stopped 1 1/2 hours early with an error message, "This meeting has been ended by the host." I don't know if they lost power or lost internet or what. The bad thing is that at the very end is when they were supposed to tell the information about prizes for people who attended the whole thing, special sales, and coupon codes that are only for the class attendees. I've been watching for an email explanation but nothing so far, which again leads me to wonder about power or internet outage. I do know they were having some construction done on their building; maybe the contractors made an oopsie?
The best thing about an online class like this is that I don't have a camera on my computer, so I could be here at home in my messy house and dressed in my old comfy pajamas with no makeup. I could chat with other people, be friendly and sociable without actually having to be WITH other people. I could run to the kitchen or bathroom whenever I wanted. I didn't have to worry about disturbing other attendees when I coughed or blew my nose
(stupid cold). I could stand up, stretch, and walk around without bothering anyone else in class. I made a point of getting up and walking around for the full time of every break (10 minutes between classes, plus the 2 meal breaks of 30 minutes each).
After I gave up on the class re-starting today, I went upstairs to fall into bed and slept about 4 hours. Since then I've been doing little chores around the house but generally feeling discombobulated. I finally asked DH a little bit ago what had happened in the real world while I was online in class. He said he didn't know because he had been online most of the night and day, too.
No wonder we've been married so long, we are a matched pair.
I have an extremely busy week coming up, meetings Friday & Saturday with lots of prep work to do, volunteer work Tuesday taking down Christmas decorations at the library, and in general trying to get back to some kind of normal post-holiday routine. Dark winter days of January & February.