Greetings, fellow Deep-into-COVID-and-Definitely-Not-Loving-House-Arrest types. So are you slouching in your chair, trying to make the remote magically produce a better show? Or even laying propped up on pillows with your phone, iPad or a book in front of you?
The world spiraled out of control awhile ago. You can’t make your own toilet paper. Making your own mask requires that you remember how to use a needle or even the sewing machine in the attic. You might have to take up your first needle while watching a YouTube video. But for all the little frayed snippets of daily life, you can always improve your posture.
Many teachers are trying to manage remote meetings, prepare lessons for students — who may or may not bother to go on Google Classroom — and even create grades inside all this craziness. Other professionals are struggling to learn Zoom and older communication apps. For some, virtual life might as well have Mario fireballs falling down onto us as we try to avoid leaping onto the poisonous mushrooms.
But for all the exploding clouds in the landscape, you can always improve your posture. Readers, how is that chair you are using to connect to the outside world? Do you have a pillow behind you or a footrest in front of you? You don’t want a backache. Those neck twinges can be worse trouble. With urgent care and doctor’s offices only slightly more appealing than the average nuclear waste site, ducking trouble is your best option. I’d even go so far as to say you should avoid unfamiliar yoga postures. One of them once put me on Oxycontin for more than a month.
The clunky piece of gray plastic above is maybe ten years old and was made by Rubbermaid. You can raise and lower the platform to three different settings, and the platform tilts forward and backward, letting me shift my feet up and down while working. I completely love this thing and I strongly recommend it to anyone who sits for much of the day. Try a search under Rubbermaid footrest.
Hugs and love to readers. Couch surfing works to kill the time, but there are sharks in these waters, not all of them swirling around like obvious Sharknados.
Zombie phrase for the day: Don’t say maybe if you want to say no. Duhhhhhdddddayyyy ayyyyeee ihhhbb oo ahhdooo dayy dohhhh.
