The Dichotomy of Scenery This Week - Trying To Catch Up on a Friday Night, Simply Made Me Want to Go Back to the Scenery of the Week.

Chitunga and I ate late. He took a break for the gym and I ordered food. While he took off, I got online to read updates of the universe and realized I can't process the information, because it impedes on getting the work done that needs to be done. I signed on to a professional obligation and I have to stick to that. Nose to the grind. Ram horns forward. 

When he returned, he showered, and we ate, sharing our work stories of the week, as he too is on an international account that requires his every second and as much as his colleagues around the world wanted to talk about what they were seeing, it was quickly squashed because the work needed to get done. 

This, of course, is a privilege. Commitments give us opportunity to be paid, to be distracted, and to have an excuse not to process.  

Scrolling through my photos from the week for a post this morning, I found this one. A sandwich bag, yogurt, & a banana. They were my friends for the day and the company I was able to keep. Actually, I was online with others and piles and piles of papers, but we were professional enough to turn out the world so we could commit ourselves to the work.

2020 was about Covid-19 and crazy, but 2021 is about the continued crazy, and I can't help but think how this impacts economies, including those of higher education, normal life in the United States, and the future of it all. The optimist in me hopes for healing sooner rather than later. The cynic in me simply says, "This has been coming for a long, long time." The thinker and analytical researcher in me wants to find answers on why any of this is possible. To make it stop.  

There's a relationship to ignorance and stupidity that I've discussed before. I have no problem being ignorant, because I don't know better. But when I do know better, I should make change. If I don't, then I deserve to be called stupid. Sadly, ignorance can't be stopped. The teacher in me says this is an educational issue.

The stupidity is everywhere right now...or is it just ignorance to the billionth degree. I have to check myself, because I know that reading books, spending time finding answers, asking questions, and doubting myself is what I've been trained to do. That is abnormal. The exception to the rule, when so many have opinions, platforms, but no accountability.

So that's where I am this morning. I'm not in a cave, but if I want to get on top of my own world (a new semester around the corner) I need to put myself back into one. I'll dip into reality here and there and I know I'm lucky to have this option.

In the meantime, I hope my actions, like always, speak louder than words.

It was peanut butter and jelly, by the way....in the sandwich bag.