So, COVID-19 has happened. Are you having fun yet?
One of the reasons I’ve been so unsighted here recently is because, as even a part-time not-much-of-a teacher, I’m considered “essential” (if only they knew). I’ve been in the classroom teaching an increasingly small population of distracted, disinterested, and frightened children as their world behaves in ways they’ve never seen before. In addition, I’m following Education Department orders to transition everything I’m doing to a purely online environment, and plan for delivering the next term’s content across both in-person and online platforms.
In short, every teacher you know is currently pulling double duty as well as having to learn how to operate in a completely new environment that none of them have been trained for. Weeeeeee……..
The yippee point for me, of course, is that, having pulled off a million billion different types of workshops over the course of my writing career, I’m actually kind of used to delivering content in an online environment: I’ve done it for the Australian Writers Marketplace and the Brisbane Writers Festival among many others. So, I’m about thaaaaaaaat far ahead of some of my colleagues. It’s only the actually being some sort of teacher bit that I have to catch up on.
That said, I’ll be posting some longer diatribes about Karratha in COVID-time over the next couple of weeks. And I’ll also, as I’m going to do today, throw up a few of the silly things people are doing to keep themselves occupied while we deal with the impending (or, for many of my friends, already-arrived) periods of isolation and containment.
To whit, a little something started by my pal Toni Koller, back down in my old haunt of Rockingham. Enjoy. Copy. Play along.
Fun with Fours
Four names I go by:
1. Lee
2. Battboy
3. Tatterdemalion
4. Mister
Four Places I’ve lived:
1. Nottingham
2. Kambalda
3. Narrogin
4. Rockingham
Four things I love to watch on TV:
1. The Prisoner
2. The Good Place
3. Murder documentaries
4. Battlestar Galactica (the reboot)
Four places I have visited:
1. Bali
2. Singapore
3. Brisbane
4. Phuket
Four things I love to eat:
1. Lasagne
2. Licorice bullets
3. Chicken Caesar salad
4. Pea and ham soup
Four of my favorite beverages:
1. Pepsi Max
2. Vanilla malt thickshakes
3. Mango beer
4. Lemon, lime, and bitters
How about you?