Dear everyone,
It’s about an hour before my Zoomed Tai Chi lecture from Master Liao, which I wouldn’t normally
be able to go to ( it’s a drag to go to Oak Park, I’m not one of his ‘advanced’
students, and also, I don’t want to pay the Tai Chi center dues). His last session probably had at least 50
people. I’m not sure, since I do zoom on
my cell phone instead of a computer, and you can only see a few people at a
time at most. I have also been doing
zoom aikido, which is mostly stretching, some individual movement exercises,
and some sword work (I think a staff is too long for people to do in their
homes - - there has already been some sword-caused ceiling damage at someone’s
house (granted, that guy is about 6’4”…)).
I’m trying to convince an aikido friend of mine to run a yoga class, and
my Tai Chi instructor to run a class on the computer as well.
Things at work are very slow. We have a temperature check to get into the
hospital, and have to wear masks in public spaces. It’s hardly necessary in the pathologists’
offices - - virtually all of us became positive in the last month.
Normally, there are 7-9 pathologists every day from 8-5:30,
and we look at about 100 cases in surgical pathology. We average 10-15 frozen sections, and 6-10
fine needle aspirations daily. The
combined surgical schedule, between the outpatient center and the inpatient
surgery is usually 15-20 pages long. Now we have 4-5 pathologists in each day from
9-3, there are maybe 20 cases per day, and 1-2 frozen sections and FNAs in a
day. The surgical schedule is only 2
pages long. It’s nice to only work three
days per week, but my income is clearly going to take a big hit! At least I have a job. Also, there will be a lot of pent-up demand
when the immediate crisis is over, so I expect to be overly busy later in the
year. Maybe we will shove it all on our
new hires. We have three starting from
May to July.
After a week of albuterol and benzonatate, my cough is
pretty much gone, but now I am taking Allegra since the trees are
pollenating. I went to work-out at Jami’s
house. We did about 70 minutes, but I
only lifted about 80% of what I normally do.
Since I am off Monday, I plan on going there for a work out. At home I have been practicing my tai chi,
aikido weapons kata, walking about 1.5 – 2 miles, and maybe 15 minutes of
calisthenics (burpees, sit-ups, etc.).
Not every day!
We have been eating well.
Jasper and Vivian cook dinner a couple of times per week, and many
lunches. They’ve made mung beans with tapioca, pad siew, Chinese hot pot,
fettuccini
Alfredo, chicken parmesan, pizza, and of course Korean Ram-Don.
Cindy and I have done some home-chefs, sour cream pancakes, rack of lamb with
pierogis, shepherd’s pie, stuffed peppers, skirt steak, etc. We have also
gotten take out, most notably from the Aviary (osso bucco with polenta,
ratatouille and panna cotta with raspberry coulis).
Clearly, I need more exercise.
We have been playing some board games: Wingspan, Sagrada, and Suburbia. Jasper has a lot more for us to try. I have
been reading a bit faster than my usual pace, but I have also been playing
games on my cell phone. I don’t think I’ve
read anything particularly memorable. We
have been watching some TV, one show called Dark, a German
science-fiction thriller, and another called Ragnorak, a Norwegian fantasy
thriller. Maybe we will try Kingdom, a show that takes
place in 16th century South Korea where a plague is gripping the
land. And maybe I will try to watch the
second season of Happy. I would be willing to give The Wire a go, but
I don’t know I have a way to get that (I can get it through the public library,
which is shuttered right now …)
Happy Easter and Pesach to all who celebrated.
Love,
H.
Ready for anything
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