work, church, technology, and Covid-19

Today I worked 10am-3pm (yes, that is an hour more than I intended to work; tasks have a tendency to slop over, alas!) during which period I took photos and video of four apartments and un-staged three of them. Either Awesome Temp or I will un-stage the fourth tomorrow or Thursday -- it was less urgent, since the incoming tenant doesn't plan to arrive until, I think, Friday.

I also answered some phone calls and updated our waitlist, which are useful tasks.

Then I headed out for a Board of Trustees listening circle to discuss our feelings about recent congregational events -- mostly our minister resigning, but also ancillary stuff. My general takeaway was that I am too goddamn tired to have much emotional reaction at this point, which is itself a valid trauma reaction, I suppose. *sigh*

Anyway, then I knocked the July 21 minutes into shape and posted them, with one section almost completely redacted because I don't think we have an official policy on how to handle confidentiality issues relating to Executive Session portions of Board meetings. I mean, I have all the data! It's nice and secure on my laptop! I just don't feel quite right putting it in a Google doc that I know people other than Board members have access to, and which will eventually be posted as a PDF on our website. *deeper sigh*

I really should have done that two weeks ago, but see above in re: too goddamn tired. Also normally I take minutes directly into Google docs, but our church wifi was glitchy as hell during the meeting so I just copy-pasted the template into Word and took minutes there. (Our wifi is from a simpler time, before we needed to support hybrid Zoom and in-person meetings on a regular basis. We are working to upgrade it, but for now... well, it's struggling, shall we say.)

We met outdoors this afternoon, at a pavilion in Cass Park. Finding that was a bit of an adventure, because I have lived in Ithaca for... uh... 21 years now (yeesh) but had never once been to Cass Park before today. So I drove around a lot of access roads until it occurred to me that the green space on the other side of Rt. 89 might also technically be part of Cass Park. And lo, after a minor detour around a soccer field, I did find the pavilion.

The reason for the outdoor meeting, btw, is that the Delta variant of Covid-19 is now running rampant in New York, so we're backing off indoor in-person gatherings again.

Also, on a more personal note, I learned this afternoon that my coworker Ms. Random Numbers has Covid-19. Apparently she got it from her husband (no idea where he got it) and started showing symptoms Friday night, though her husband didn't get a positive Covid test until Monday so she didn't even get tested until then. I have definitely been in the same room as Ms. Random Numbers on multiple occasions last week, mostly without a mask (we stopped wearing them in the office since we are all fully vaccinated), so, you know, that's not great.

I have scheduled a test for tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed...