Here I am at the end of my 10 day quarantine, thankfully with no symptoms of COVID-19 still. I have been teaching from home since April 8, and it has gone about as well as I could expect. I couldn't teach any labs of course, so that is the biggest disappointment for me but the students have not complained much about it.
The first day I returned to my attic "office" I decided I had had enough of the card table I used as a work surface all last year. I bought a writing desk from Target and it arrived Tuesday. It is one of those flat-pack things and I was really amazed at how efficiently all the parts were packed together in the box. It took me a day or so to put it together but I'm already thrilled with it. It is sturdy, looks nice in the space, and even has a little drawer for my pens and other little items. It's slightly taller than the card table so I am working at a more comfortable height.
I have to have a negative COVID-19 test before I am allowed to return to campus, so I drove over to the Walgreens yesterday morning for that. They do drive-thru tests, which actually means they send the swab through the little drawer in the drive-thru window and one has to do it oneself in the car and send it back through the drawer. It was a PCR test and sent out to a contractor for processing (and a weekend) so I have no idea how long it will take to get the results. The pharmacist said I should call if I haven't heard anything in 72 hours, which will be Tuesday. If the results don't show up by this evening I will have to teach Monday's classes from home again, which is fine but I don't like the uncertainty. Will I be here? Will I need to pack things up and go to campus? Do I have everything I need in the same place? Besides that, I kind of need to know if my non-majors class will be able to have lab on Wednesday or not, and it would be helpful to be able to tell them in class tomorrow.
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