Wednesday, August 11th, 2021AD
So it’s finally happened — a camper tested positive for coronavirus. We have to shut the camp for the rest of the week. Parents are (understandably) freaking out, and one even asked us to violate the law and give him the identity of the positive camper. Not on your life, buddy.
I’m more anxious about this than I expected, but I don’t have the luxury of not acting right now. I’m sure some of the campers guessed during camp that something wasn't right. I did my best to keep it under wraps, but I definitely went into 'crisis mode'.
Closing camp will let us clean and organize our materials, which is something we really need to do.
This feels like it did when I went on a spring break trip last year right at the start of all this — dynamic, anxious, rapid, tenuous — but this time I’m wearing a face mask and in charge of more than getting to boarding on time. And just like my final semester of college, the main part is over prematurely.
Mi bezonas trinkaĵon.
Some parents were freaked out, which is what I expected. One parent acted like one of the campers when he came to pick up his daughter. This guy was all muscly and looked like one of those youtube prank-channel dipshits. He said something along the lines of
All this is so stupid, ugh, my kid's not sick so why can't I send her to camp tomorrow 😤
I didn't feel bad for him.
I guess it's time to clean up the spaces we've used. Shorter hours and a massive change in what we do is gonna be weird, man. We have some staff leaving (one for grad school, one for undergrad I think) but we weren't able to give them a proper goodbye.
I caught Lagrange using ~40 gigabytes of memory on my machine after leaving it open for a few days. The application is snappy enough and remembers where I am very well so I don't need to keep it running. I guess I forgot to turn it off 😅.
I’ve been reading here and there from a few when I get a moment:
I found a beautiful French-language capsule run by a photographer. Check it out below
Photographe de Nature -- Ghislain Mary
More Byzantine music! This album is all music from the ancient masters of Byzantine music, and I like it a lot.
A Florilegium of Byzantine Meisters (Apple music!)
Lord of Spirits, mostly. It’s an excellent podcast that’s really informative. I’ve been noticing all kinds of things about the hymnography and texts we use at church!
(malgranda ŝanĝo: mi trinkis italan aperitivon, (nomiĝas Cocchi Americano), ke mi miksis kun mineralakvon kaj glacion)