Thursday 31 December 2020

Pandemic Parenting: Dec 2020

Week 128

-Little one 12:30-1:30am; dreamt^ to 3am. Awake with little one 5:40am; trade off as she wakes up an hour later. Took some time to organize my day, brief family time 8am then over an hour Dad time. Shopping after 9:30am, which took 1.5 hrs; put items away, all had yogurts, then Dad time downstairs. Lunch after 12:00, Mom handles snooze as I attempt reference letter, other school, and then snooze itself after an hour of goofing. From 2-3pm I do NaNo, because. Then Dad time for not quite an hour and actual school work on 3M for an hour. Phone home. Dad time, then cooking and plotting out some 3M. Bed by 10:30pm.
-Up 5am; handle 3M test and quiz. Some NaNo, then 6:30am with little one. Mom time after 7am, some emails. School to tidy up the first of the 3Ms; finish the unit. Then monitor a 3C test in another room, creating solution sets. Lunch by 2pm, finalize items, run, then pickup in rain. Home, some emails. Play downstairs, some tidying before dinner. Nail clipping, dinner, finalize ref letter then NaNo crawl. More writing. Bed before 11:30pm.
-Up a bit in night, then from 6:15am. Prep/scan letter, help with dressing, eventually out. Run; forget mask in car. Teach 3M lessons with new set of 16. Emails, quick lunch, quiz correcting, staff meeting. Runs to after 4pm, quick pickup. Home, send letter, then almost 1.5 hr little one as Mom head hurts. Losing my mind before 7pm, eventually back in to handle missing quizzes and other emails. Finish quizzes after 10:15pm (brief break for RDA), then prep. Briefly cook.
-Bed 12:30am. Up by 6am, sled in circles in light snow before departing. First 3M test, many questions. Try to prep remote lesson. Trig continues, then grading quizzes and answering emails. NO staff mtg, brief relax including at home. Dad time 45 min involves cleaning. After 8pm, with dinner, back into quiz corrections until after 10:30pm. Finish remote lesson; decompress.
-Some interruptions. Morning to check messages, share yogurts. 3M test again, set up regression solutions and files. Then into trig. Lunch is a book club for Ibram X (distanced). Emails and calculator disinfecting (needed 7), run, and home. Mixed time includes sadness over island cleaning. Cooking, break, don't get to work until near 10pm on lesson planning. Up later than I wanted.
-Mom up 6am, Dad time 6:30am, school prep and tidying after 7am. Back to a regular teaching day. Put together rest of quads unit. Shopping trip, then notified maybe preschool in a month. Home, Mom time, then Dad time for half an hour, pick up food then back and forth. Dishes. Break, then talk about Xmas. In bed before 10pm.
-Dreamt^^. With little one 6am, Mom takes over 6:30am; over an hour to finalize Alexandra's story translation/photos. Dad time 8-10am, including blowing up beachball and wearing boots. 10am, parent email and video creation. 11am, some grading; 11:30 soup for lunch. By 1pm Mom snoozing, TGIO NaNo wrap party online. After 2pm, grading. 3pm Dad time for an hour; 4pm some grading then nap. 5pm phoning; eventual bath and bed. Grading 8pm, assist with bed before 9pm. Buy gas, milk, bit more grading then classifying photos to 11:30pm.

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Item counts to Saturday (Dec 5):
Step Count 2016: About 51,200
-Trying to finish “Girl + Algebra” while baffled by darkness.

Step Count 2017: Over 62,300 (14 stars)
-Home life seems busier than work, wondering about my serotonin, RRL end.

Step Count 2018: Over 68,650 (10 stars)
-Tears in the night became cold too, MDM surveys, last "Time Untied" words for yr.

Step Count 2019: Over 75,850 (13 stars)
-Xmas lights, Santa photo, clear words, cut my finger; hospital, Jughead review.

STEP COUNT 2020: Over 56,400. 11 stars.
SCHOOL EMAIL 2020: 179 New (60 sent)
We have completed DAY 68. Now taught for 39 days vs. quarantine only nine. (3 overlap)

RH Stress Level: 9 (Blaster Mode, Full Power)

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Week 129
-Dreamt*. Up 5:30am, more photo sorting. With little one 6am for two hours (first 30 min asleep). After 8am, start calendar sorting and do more grading (including online course setup). After 11am, outside with Alexandra to park. Back noon, cook lunch; after 12:30pm head to snooze. Asleep after an hour; more grading (one set down). Nap myself for over 45 min. More grading after 3:30pm (near completion). Depart after 4:30pm with Tatie for Kanata Lights. (40 min wait from 5pm opening.) Home 6:30pm; little one out of sorts. Quick emails. Bed after 7:30pm; 8pm into prepping of Monday 3C Quiz/Review. Bed by midnight.
-With Alexandra before 6am. Break to queue up posts (and download images) at 6:30am. Regular day, two lessons and review, during which I can write out solutions. After lunch, put together finance assignment with solutions. Quickly out to buy card. Home with back and forth crashing until together after 6:30pm. Evening of trying to finalize finance and handle Geometry in a lesson. Breakdown. Bed by 11pm.
-Up from 5:30am, with little one from 6:15am. Regular day (cycled back to finance) with some missing students. Graded remote quizzes after lunch. Home, managed dishes then family time then Dad time; eventually take 10 min. Dinner, send emails about missing quizzes, prepare new quiz and geometry sheet. RDA while finalizing and queueing post, bed after 11:30pm.
-Up after 5:30am but all quiet. Finish sorting all photos, bit of sled in new snow. Test at school, finalize finance lesson, teach geometry (barely staying ahead). No quizzes?? Catch up with emails and some prep work, quick shopping trip. Home, and they read book online which lets me do one quiz and lie down. Then Dad time for 30+ minutes, her dinner 7pm which lasts a while. Start sending 'missing' emails before 8pm, takes half an hour. Time for dinner, eventually something in by 10pm; to bed by 10:30pm.
-Awake before 5:30am; trying to deal with emails. With Alexandra from 6:15 to 7am, then trying to complete quiz marking. Time outside, to work -- forget my drive. Anne-Lise emails me needed files. Alexandra sticker for going in the preschool door. Me two evaluations that day, won't see them again in 2020, exhausting. Finalize Friday tests. Run, home and an hour of grading probability quizzes; rejoin at 5:30pm for family and Father time. Bed after fall at 7pm; cook then 8pm Exec Social. Before 9pm, doing work, no energy to grade. To bed before 10:30pm.
-Up 5:30am. Do prep work for next week until 7am. Head out to another testing day, not as intense; have time to adjust Trig lessons. Then we start trig, and I find a video to show as things go fast. After lunch, draw up solutions and finalize more of next week; student doesn't show for Meet. Send emails about Assignment. Run, home, some back and forth and a half hour Dad time. After bed, I largely take the evening off; my bed after midnight.
-Up 6am. Start dealing with Holiday Parody. Dad time for 1.5 hrs from 6:40am; time away to figure out shopping. Tatie's after 9am, shopping to 10am, dealing with related items to 11am. Back to song parody. Drop-off at noon, more parody during snooze (with brief interruption to help); dishes once it's complete. Dad time half hour, then 2 hrs of grading along with some family time inserted; Dad time again 6:30pm. Bed after 7:30pm, dinner, wrapping gifts to mail, and more grading. Bed after 11:30pm.

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Item counts to Saturday (Dec 12):
Step Count 2016: About 58,600
-Groaned about holidays breaking routine, tried to get ahead.

Step Count 2017: Over 67,000 (14 stars)
-Too busy before the holidays, Cappies mentoring, tried new phone.

Step Count 2018: Over 76,000 (12 stars)
-6 hrs sleep decided as standard, Similac Stage 2 & solid food, laughter video.

Step Count 2019: Over 71,700 (14 stars)
-Alexandra bandaid, Cappies mentor show, to Aunt Alyssa's, breakdown.

STEP COUNT 2020: Over 56,950. 11 stars.
SCHOOL EMAIL 2020: 137 New (60 sent)
We have completed DAY 73. Now taught for 44 days vs. quarantine only nine. (3 overlap)

RH Stress Level: 9 (Blaster Mode, Full Power)

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Week 130
-Up 6:30am. Sort photos, check messages. Family time 8:15am, getting out the tree and assorted garland, ladder, etc. Dad time 9:15am, then before 10am dealing with wrapping gifts and sorting boxes. Breakdown by 11am. Out to post office before 11:30; drop by store to look for replacement bottle (broke at Sat snooze). Home by 12:30pm, doing snooze before lunch. She's asleep after an hour, before 2pm... trying not to freak over still no grading today. Also considering ppt creation. Finally to work 3:45pm for 1.5 hrs, then phoning home, family time and dinner. Bath, cooking, back to work 8:30pm. Finish that after 10:30pm; dinner and put together powerpoint. Sleep after 12:30am.
-Dreamt*. With Alexandra from 6:45am; dresses with Mom after 7am. Teaching is back to 3M, the quieter class(?). Quads and Sins, then grading remains of 3C, emails, and handling probability. Home for more emails and grading; Dad time outside before 6pm for over half an hour, pulling sled in new snow. After dinner, the cooking and finish grading then getting midterm marks into the system during RDA; finish about 10:30pm. Then aim to record Holiday Song after 11pm. Trial run; attempt #1 slides do not advance; attempt #2 my computer shuts off despite power; attempt #3 the chromebook glitches audio; attempt #4 is hopefully fine, to bed before 12:30am.
-Up by 5:30am with little one. 6:30am, verify the vid audio and fix remote attendance. Then family, and head out. Teach the class I've seen 3 times; manage to grade a quiz on break. Once done, quick lunch, then Meet a student for 15 min, then enter all the Low Grades data (~45 min) then finalize and copy test. Now after 3pm, still need to start quizzes; send apology to stream. Quick shopping. Then emails & quizzes for over 1.5 hrs at home; Dad time before 6:30pm (Mom tapped out). Still more quizzes after she's asleep before 8pm, finally done 10pm. Consider dinner. Bit of prep, in bed by 11:30pm.
-Up after 6am. Dad time including her out of sack by herself; to work, still cold yet do my run early again. Hand out OSSTF magazines. Test (for finalizing next review), then finish quadratics. Handle parent emails (absences, midterms), student emails, quiz feedbacks, photocopying, attendance, probably more things; leave after 3:30pm (oops). Home for more quizzes and emails. Dad time for 45 min before 6pm, dinner, then lie down 15 min. After bed, quizzes and doing dishes. More emails. Bed by 11:30pm at least.
-Asleep after 1am; dreams included watching a small plane crash and I have no phone. Up 6:30am. Pull together Daycare articles, handle remote attendance. Needed 7:15am to dress in PJs. Morning announcements have my song; second test day, after review. Parent email, then Book Club. Quick lunch, then quiz corrections. Pickup after 4pm, home as Mom arrives. Brief staff gather 5pm (whoever's left from 4pm), then more quizzes. Dad time 6-7pm, quick break. More quizzes/emails before 8pm. Cooking, then printing at 9:30pm. Dinner 10pm, then de-stressing, then need to prep final lesson; bed after midnight.
-Awake by 6am; dreamt^. Dad time, and she likes the elastic with the Santa on it. To work, last test of 2020, I manage to sort my emails. Intro trig. Get Daycare message/photo about Santa's visit, despite my internal stress it didn't go well anyway. ("Gone.") By 1pm, 50/50 draw then contact tracing binders in, lunch (and I'm the Holiday poet from trivia?). Email student who was away and the one not returning in Jan. Write down the road map for both courses before I forget. Depart 3pm, do shopping, run, pickup. Start laundry, realize we need diapers so run out again before 5:30pm (also get printer ink). Dad time for 45 min after 6pm, then sushis. Asleep by 8pm, I square away some things, BNL live concert at 9pm. I'm wiped out by 10pm, bed.
-Decent night, up by 6:30am, start Epsilon story work and sort photos. Family after 8am, Dad time for an hour including sticker art from 8:30am; lie down for half an hour. Couple items, then outside 10:45am for family time. Small car to park with slides and swing; home solo after 11:30am. Lunch, then Mom takes snooze while I deal with Xmas lights; the extension cord has one prong too wide so need to deal with duct tape around door, takes an hour. Run, wake others 3pm to start laundry and do measure - she's ~93 cm. Dad time for an hour, then I need to deal with pedometer, check messages, lie down for half an hour. Back in and it's Dad time for almost an hour (including downstairs), then dinner on my lap. Vector to sleep is almost 8pm, then cooking and decompressing and I forgot to deal with photos and dishes and still have a list a mile long, fml bed 10pm.

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Item counts to Saturday (Dec 19):
Step Count 2016: About 46,500
-Was meeting deadlines amid chaos.

Step Count 2017: Over 70,900 (14 stars)
-Car repair issue, caught a cold, secret santa art sketches.

Step Count 2018: Over 79,800 (10 stars)
-Holiday gatherings, visited school, into size 2 diapers, Timeless movie.

Step Count 2019: Over 77,100 (12 stars)
-Craft show, put up tree, unwraps own book, school protests and upload of files.

STEP COUNT 2020: Over 60,350. 10 stars.
SCHOOL EMAIL 2020: 245 New (105 sent)
 Removed 57 sent Placemat exports
We have completed DAY 78. Now taught for 49 days vs. quarantine only nine. (3 overlap)

RH Stress Level: 10 (Barrier Burst)

 (I wonder if that's harsh then remember I broke down in front of the little one dealing with shipping and had to handle "midterm" marks and song recording and Jan work for a student and all the quizzes and theme days and Xmas light extension cord and fml.)

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Week 131
-Dreamt*. Up 6am to write, with little one from 6:45am to near 8am. Break to clear camera and write, then 9am shoot holiday video for family. Dad time before 9:30 for over an hour towards family time outside. Home 11am to cook and finalize her story. Family from 11:45 including lunch, then vector to snooze. Asleep by 1pm; then I sleep (dream of someone short driving my car who can't reach pedals, somehow I help from in back?). Mom time after 2:30pm, write. Depart after an hour to Piquards; depart there 5:30pm, phone grandparents. Dinner after 6:30pm, bath, asleep after 8pm. Discuss calendar photos. Dinner, then dishes, asleep after midnight.
-Awake 6am with little one; relieved by 6:45am, Mom's glasses missing. To Daycare and Back to start self-clean oven and finish Epsilon Entry. Buy new battery for pedometer (fails to update properly?) and scones. Card for ECEs. To mall for ornament and new camera card. Home for lunch as lockdown's delayed. Buy gift certificates en route, pick up and right to Chapel. Play there, home after 6pm picking up food, eventually she sleeps as I shift to Photo Issues, then Calendar Issues. School email says do the impossible about impending lockdown (mesh the class with cohorts in different places). Some RDA also. Bed by 11:30, moving so slow.
-Awake 5:20am for relief duties. After 6am, more calendar work. 6:45am Dad time, but Mom must dress so handle breakfast and recycling. Brief sled play, Daycare. Finish calendar from 8:30-11:30am. Return a call, deal with dishes. Quick shopping, then bookstore, run and haircut 3pm (appointment yesterday morn). Second bookstore and novelties store to complete shopping. Pickup, exterior lights on by 4:30pm return. Then go pick up calendars; 5pm quiet time. 5:30-6:30pm back and forth, little one lacks energy, dinner was included... bed routine before 7pm. Half hour reduce before 8pm. Then into Xmas video rendering. Also break time. Bed about 10:30pm.
-Up 2:30-4:30; allowed to sleep past 7am. Update photos, social media, family time 8am (Dad focussed). Nose runs a bit; cold? Depart before 10am to Chapel, Alexandra grandparent time; I finish video rendering and print her story. Then mail calendar to Mom (G'ma) and final shopping, slip and skin my knees on ice. Lunch, then upload to Taylor Xmas and do gift wrapping. (Also Toddler room switchover, but I still want songs.) Depart 4pm for pickup and tea, return 5:30pm. I deal with emails and full photo card. Dad time 6pm, dinner after 6:30pm, asleep by 8pm. Cooking, some videos, finish 'Adachi/Shimamura' then 9:15pm into sketches. Bed 11pm. She definitely has a cold.
-Up 6am, tidy these files; 6:35am Dad time for 1.5 hrs including holiday outfit. Break for 1.5 hrs includes inking sketches. Dad time as Mom cooks chocolate; eventual lunch. Snooze attempt, I do dishes, tidy, finish wrapping... need to help finish sleep. After 1:30pm I complete channel edits to 10th Annual Parody and some colouring of scans... snooze extended to 4pm. Some family time, then I lie down for 45 minutes. Arrivals start 5:30pm. Little one gifts after 6pm. Dinner 8pm with her in PJs (after stocking) and me spending time by mattress - as she doesn't want to miss out but is tired. Eventually she helps carry gifts to people. Actual sleep after 10:30pm (she insists on book again), alone after 11pm. I finish scan colouring and prep work, bed 12:30am.
-Awake after 7am; little one up 7:45am. Out for stocking 8:30am by which point my video is online. Santa stuff. Call parents but they have snow (we have rain), so breakfast. Called back before 11am, an hour of remote gifts. Lunch, snooze attempt before 1pm succeeds before 2pm. I get my blog post online (and research chocolate). Lie down half an hour, back up 3:30pm. Potty talk. Depart before 4:30pm to Chapel; family dinner there and cleaning supplies. Depart 7pm, bath, bed 8pm but I take over 9pm, no success until 9:45pm. Do my run, we tidy up living room. 11pm break time. Bed after midnight.
-Awake after 7am; Dad time from 7:30am. Starting to feel like a cold. Mom from 8:15am as I fold up rug for a potty train day. Then do dishes. Some back and forth, family time outside after 10am. Dad time in park, then she gets small shovel; back inside 11:30am. Take time for inking, lunch, then shopping. Home before 2pm, more Banner work. Dad time for 1.5 hrs from 3:45pm including floor accident. About 5:30pm lie down and finish banner colouring. Before 7pm dinner, then Mom finishes truffles; bed before 8pm. Needed before 9pm. Asleep before 9:30pm. Banner completed, goof off online to 1am.
-Lotus Prince "Dino Crisis 2" (from Nov) #1-5 & AT4W

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Item counts to Saturday (Dec 26):
Step Count 2016: About 36,000
-Was sick, but pleased by my writing of 2016.

Step Count 2017: Over 55,400 (19 stars)
-Getting over being sick, did art and writing, busy but not stressed.

Step Count 2018: Over 56,400 (10 stars)
-Dealing with gifts, long drive on Boxing Day, musical sleeps, 10 subs on Tapas.

Step Count 2019: Over 52,500 (7 stars)
-Sick, parody & calendar work, new car seat, driving and hospital (her then me).

STEP COUNT 2020: Over 58,150. 10 stars.
SCHOOL EMAIL 2020: 10 New (3 sent)
We are holding at DAY 78. Taught for 49 days vs. quarantine only 9. (3 overlap)

RH Stress Level: 8 (Starlight Breaker, Extension)

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Week 132
-Awake 6am after being up earlier; Mom takes over, me Tylenol, bit more sleep. Post banner, family time 8am. Dad centred from 8:30am; lie down again after 9:30 (one success and 10 min later one accident). Organize photos. Dad time reading by 10:15, then depart in car to get in-laws. 11-12:30am including brunch (and I email photos). Snooze attempt from 1pm, and I lie down, she's up after an hour. Rejoin 4pm, after another success. Phone grandparents 5pm, then videos. Lie down 6pm, back for dinner, aborted by shark in bath. Asleep after 8pm. Update some files, still sick, bed 10pm; actually read some Potty Train book chapter first to after 10:30pm.
-Awake 6:30am, Dad time 7am including paints. Outside with family after 8:15am for shovel and sled. I come in 9:15am to finish sorting photos. Rejoin 10:30am, Dad time until Mark H phones. Dad time again after laundry but losing patience; making lunch before noon. Grading from 12:30-4:30pm (during snooze and books), then back outside for 45 min. Family time, brief grading 6pm but then yoga. Health fading from 7pm, soon bed routine; cook, more grading, decompress (some RDA) and to bed 11pm.
-In A's room a lot with micro sleeps. (Like Reuben suddenly comes in says 'oh you're still here' then I'm awake.) Mom takes over 6:45am, micro sleeps. (Like we're setting up RP and I need to pick a bunny avatar; also we're around a table with a Gold account?) Join 8:15am, Dad centred time 8:30am. Family time before 9am, depart before 10am to Chapel. Once home, handle dishes and tidying, get online Archies, finish grading more tests, move humidifier. Drop-off 4pm, home for tallying tests. Chapel dinner after 6pm; depart before 7:30pm. Last things, I finish test tallies after 9pm. Bit more tidying, videos time. Bed after 10:30pm.
-Relief from 5:15am; awake 7:15am (micro sleeps). Dad time to 8am, grading 8:15am. Dad time 9:30am, cleaning begins 10am. Depart for store/bills (and book), return by 11:15am. Dad time, briefly outside (nice snow, but ice). Lunch, then snooze 12:30pm, goes quick. More book reading. Lie down 45 min, awakened 2:30pm. Resume grading, through another set by 4:15pm. Dad time including self-awareness and outside for 45 min; inside for rest after 6pm. Some grading before 6:30pm, rejoin 6:45pm. Dinner etc after 7pm; cook, bit more grading, sort photos, break, bed from 10pm.
-Dreams**. 7am deal with photos, finish grading tallies. 8am family time, Dad time for an hour after pants issue. Depart by 10am for Chapel. Home 10:45am, break, then grading online regressions. Still not done after 3pm; do run anyway. Pickup after 4pm, grading after 4:45pm. After 6pm DONE with 3M (3C remains). Dad time 40 min with much cleaning. Dinner, bed, record Daycare screen video. Family arrives before 9pm (watch little one videos); dinner after 10pm. Crackers at midnight. Bed after 12:30am.
-Awake before 7am, Dad time for 75 min including books. Sort through email then start grading. By 9:45am, back with others and Dad time to 11am. Family time, including call to Great Aunt. Dad time, then lunch. Then need to tidy kitchen, put things away; some grading before 2pm possible. 3pm Dad time, then depart for Chapel. Return before 4:30pm, grading (and Commencement view). Return 5:30pm for family dinner; arrive home 7:45pm (circled back for giraffe). Grading again after 8pm, needed to help sleep, grading after 9pm. Doctor Who special from 9:30pm, then 11pm needed potty (that was unexpected). Send emails, bed from midnight.
-Dreamt&. They're up 7:15am. I catch up with some non-school things. Join 8:15am, Dad time from 8:30am with lots of reading. Back to work 9:45am, also try to convert MOV to be visible by old FinalCut (VLC allows saving as wmv/asf but not without watermark?). After 11am out to shovel as family. Brief Dad time then noon potty including new book. Lunch after 12:30, snooze 1pm, asleep 2pm and I can read more on training (including Daycare section). Up 3:30pm, I attempt file render then off to Chapel for scheduled swim. Photos, mark tallies, back home for an hour of Dad time including tree ornaments. Break for email (and file render died), dinner and bath. Finish grading, then bath fault. Bed before 8pm; potty again before 9pm. After re-recording and cooking, quick run, read new yuri. Bed after 11pm.
-Lotus Prince "Dino Crisis 2" #6 (end) & Drakengard 3 pieces

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Item counts to Saturday (Jan 2):
Step Count 2017: 52,000
-Roundup posts, finally started tackling item backlog post-writing.

Step Count 2018: Over 56,300 (14 stars)
-Sick AGAIN, so was either moping or very busy doing things.

Step Count 2019: Over 64,750 (8 stars)
-"Doctor Who" special, movie, sorting "Time Untied", vaccinations & standing

Step Count 2020: Over 39,500 (5 stars)
-Hospital and driving, SO sick alone in basement, "Frozen II" & "Star Wars".

STEP COUNT 2020/21: Over 53,150. 11 stars.
SCHOOL EMAIL 2020/21: 15 New (3 sent)
We are holding at DAY 78. Taught for 49 days vs. quarantine only 9. (3 overlap)

RH Stress Level: 7 (Starlight Breaker)

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CONSTANT TO-DO LIST:
 -Sketches for 2019 holiday parody
 -Write a TANDQ article on Polling and Bias
 -Write a post about types of praise/encouragement
 -Catching up with web serials/comics (from ~August 2018)
 -Read some of the books sitting at my desk