Yay, I did it, I got up early: 6:30.
The sun rose at 6:17 this morning (sets at 8:06 p.m.) and is shining in my eyes right now as I type on the couch in the living room. I have the quiet house to myself for a couple hours. (HM sleeps in the finished half-story upstairs. It's got slanted walls so you can only stand up in the middle.)
The house isn't big enough for three separate adults to set up projects, and keep distance. HM's son is a nice guy, and I'm fine with him being here (not that I have a choice, but I am)--until June, I think.
He's an electrician--a necessary trade--so he's out at work on weekdays. But he's in the guest room across the hall from me, and I'd started to use that room as my sewing & sitting room.
I feel squeezed. We all are.
BUT... I woke up this morning thinking, why don't I take up editing Wikipedia again?
Happy! I'd loved doing that a few years ago, and had kind of forgotten...
Whew. I just needed to sink down into feeling useless, and then the current gently brought me up to the surface again:
"Here's a good thing."
It's useful work---most Wikipedia editors are men, and since everyone chooses to edit whatever they want, the entries reflect a lack of women's input. I just looked up Tove Jansson, for instance, and no one has yet added info from the new April New Yorker profile of her.
It's challenging work because the wiki has its own rules, which take some learning. Learning something is one of the most cheering things.
The rules aren't hard but they're finicky, if you're doing more than a simple correction/addition.
When I edited in the past, people were kind and helpful. Though the site has a reputation for rudely pouncing on mistake-makers, I didn't experience that.
(Wikipedia provides good guides for editors, and one of them says that a higher-than-average proportion of editors are on the autism spectrum, something for everyone to be aware of in social interactions. (--en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:High-functioning_autism_and_Asperger%27s_editors)
And the work takes no more space than my laptop. I can even do it outside.
If I run out of ideas, there's a list of Requested Articles.
The sun rose at 6:17 this morning (sets at 8:06 p.m.) and is shining in my eyes right now as I type on the couch in the living room. I have the quiet house to myself for a couple hours. (HM sleeps in the finished half-story upstairs. It's got slanted walls so you can only stand up in the middle.)
The house isn't big enough for three separate adults to set up projects, and keep distance. HM's son is a nice guy, and I'm fine with him being here (not that I have a choice, but I am)--until June, I think.
He's an electrician--a necessary trade--so he's out at work on weekdays. But he's in the guest room across the hall from me, and I'd started to use that room as my sewing & sitting room.
I feel squeezed. We all are.
BUT... I woke up this morning thinking, why don't I take up editing Wikipedia again?
Happy! I'd loved doing that a few years ago, and had kind of forgotten...
Whew. I just needed to sink down into feeling useless, and then the current gently brought me up to the surface again:
"Here's a good thing."
It's useful work---most Wikipedia editors are men, and since everyone chooses to edit whatever they want, the entries reflect a lack of women's input. I just looked up Tove Jansson, for instance, and no one has yet added info from the new April New Yorker profile of her.
It's challenging work because the wiki has its own rules, which take some learning. Learning something is one of the most cheering things.
The rules aren't hard but they're finicky, if you're doing more than a simple correction/addition.
When I edited in the past, people were kind and helpful. Though the site has a reputation for rudely pouncing on mistake-makers, I didn't experience that.
(Wikipedia provides good guides for editors, and one of them says that a higher-than-average proportion of editors are on the autism spectrum, something for everyone to be aware of in social interactions. (--en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:High-functioning_autism_and_Asperger%27s_editors)
And the work takes no more space than my laptop. I can even do it outside.
If I run out of ideas, there's a list of Requested Articles.
