Coronavirus Lockdown Spanish Edition - Day 3 - "back" to work

3rd day... let's see how long I can keep this up, shall we? 😉

First day working from home. Set up the home office (take over half the dining room table), start making a list of all the work pending from the various projects and priorities. Contact partners in other countries and see what the situation is over there. Compare notes (and exchange photos of working conditions) with colleagues and with other friends who are working from home. Commiserate or be jealous of the few friends who still "have to" or "get to" physically go in to work. Continue with coronavirus-related memes on WhatsApp, but at a much lower rate than over the weekend - you can tell we're all at least trying to work. 😜

Happy I brought the big screen and keyboard from the office and not stuck working on a 13'' laptop for 2+ weeks!

Not setting a foot outdoors. Haven't followed any of the "shut in" recommendations to set up some kind of daily routine (getting up, meals, work, physical activity of some kind, housework, R&R), must put that on my "to do list". Maybe. I'm not very good establishing routines...

We're lucky. By "we" I mean most of my colleagues and myself. Our work on international projects means we pretty much live on our laptops anyway, and do so whenever we travel to random places around the world. So working from home or from the office? Same deal. Just with a lower workload since we aren't planning any trips. Or events. Or face-to-face meetings. In fact we spent most of last week wondering if that was the day we'd be sent home to work, but the government of the Valencia Community didn't decide to close down educational institutions until Thursday evening, and that starting just today. Many of our partners in other countries are also working from home due to closed universities (some, like my colleagues in Vietnam, since the coronavirus crisis started during the Lunar New Year festivities -  never reopened!). Working more or less because if you've got kids at home, good luck! So all this means a lower volume of e-mails... And that sure makes a difference on your workload!

So we're just trying to set new targets for ourselves. Start to figure out the best way to have the brainstorming sessions that we had planned for this week. And when. And wondering how long this will last.

The group messages to cheer on the population are still circulating. But it's more confusing that on Saturday. Yesterday there were suggestions for 3 different actions in the evening, two of them the same but at different times! They included banging pots and pans to cheer on the staff keeping the supermarkets running. Another was to put on some party music and dance on your balcony while having a drink. Apparently yet another suggested playing the national anthem! I just listen, and when I hear noise head out to the balcony to see what's going on and join in or not. Tonight there was another round of applause and cheering (shifted to 8pm from Saturday's 10pm so kids could join in). I'm guessing one of our neighbors is a healthcare professional 'cause the cheers got louder as he was entering the building and he started thanking people...

#stayhome #quedateencasa #yomequedoencasa #restecheztoi