Day 54 - Routine day in lockdown

This morning I headed out for my run while chatting to Fiona through headphones, as is usual most days at the moment. On our plan was something called a “cut down” workout. The reps got shorter, but their intensity got higher. I really enjoyed it, and I had most of the Lee Road to myself, given that the day was cool and overcast.

I had to time my run carefully though, as I had almost no time to spare when I got home, before I had to go on Zoom for a staff meeting. I put a fleece on over my running T-shirt to make myself look more dressed up for the meeting! The meeting was to do with our exam timetable for the start of June. We finalised the dates for our online exams in the meeting, and the students will be told by the end of this week.

Most of the rest of today was spent trying to finish my Chemistry revision booklet. It’s a slow-going, and sometimes tiresome, process but it’ll be worth it in the end, when hopefully lots of teachers buy it!

We had our weekly, semi-private Zoom class at 6pm today. I wore the lederhosen dri-fit that I bought at the Munich marathon last year, and it somehow lifted my mood loads. Whatever works I guess! John popped into the background of Lisa Banahan’s camera at the start and was like “what are you wearing?!” Haha, brilliant!

At 8pm, we had our weekly Crusaders table quiz and Georgina was the quiz master. The questions were great, but I got my lowest score yet at 11.5! Georgina is out of a job at the moment, so she said that the quiz gave her a lovely focus for the week. I found that too when I was quiz master a few weeks ago. She had clearly put a lot of effort into the quiz, as evidenced by both a picture round and a music round. Her “Crusaders” round was on the theme of “people who acted as crusaders in their field.” Numbers for the quiz tonight were a bit down on previous weeks - I wonder did Brendan’s speed quiz last week scare them off?!

After the quiz, the usual suspects, me, Mum, Susan, Mairéad and Paul Kelly stayed on Zoom to chat, as we always do. Susan ended up demonstrating some knee exercises for Mum, while standing on a kitchen chair, having had a few glasses of wine. It was funny! I left the Zoom conversation at about 10.30pm to go off and watch the new RTÉ series called “Normal People.” It’s great! Such a nostalgic and relatable drama. The next episode gives me something to look forward to for next week. It’s all these small little things in our lives that put some sort of structure on the expanse of time and uncertainty that lies before us.Läs mer