To art class or not
Mar. 19th, 2020 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunn I am utterly overcome with indecision. Colin the Art emails to say that art class is still happening on Friday but will then go online.
I have been out a few times this week : picking up car from garage (the window STILL isn't working properly! Steve is now going to try to buy a replacement door on ebay for me.) Yesterday I went to the pet shop, to pick up cat food and dog treats, and (probably unwisely) popped into B&M to buy a new in-front-of-the-fire bed for Rosie. And on Monday, again, probably unwisely, I went to the evening art group and painted a live model.
We have to go to the post office with orders, to keep the business running, which is really essential. Will probably go to the butcher on Friday as usual, because after all one must eat. Is it that much more risk, to the village or to me, to go to a church hall and paint in the company of a handful of people for a couple of hours? If they show, which I suppose they might not. I imagine the loss of business for Colin of closure of all his classes will be pretty severe; he's not well-off, nor particularly tech-savvy, and probably not well positioned to move online: I suspect he will probably want advice from me about that. I feel that he may be in for a shock if he's hoping to get the same amount of money for online classes as in-person ones...
If I wasn't mildly asthmatic, I would definitely go. I have no hand sanitiser, and the hall has no hot water, so hand washing isn't great there, though there is a sink, I'm sure nobody will be disinfecting the place. arg.
I have been out a few times this week : picking up car from garage (the window STILL isn't working properly! Steve is now going to try to buy a replacement door on ebay for me.) Yesterday I went to the pet shop, to pick up cat food and dog treats, and (probably unwisely) popped into B&M to buy a new in-front-of-the-fire bed for Rosie. And on Monday, again, probably unwisely, I went to the evening art group and painted a live model.
We have to go to the post office with orders, to keep the business running, which is really essential. Will probably go to the butcher on Friday as usual, because after all one must eat. Is it that much more risk, to the village or to me, to go to a church hall and paint in the company of a handful of people for a couple of hours? If they show, which I suppose they might not. I imagine the loss of business for Colin of closure of all his classes will be pretty severe; he's not well-off, nor particularly tech-savvy, and probably not well positioned to move online: I suspect he will probably want advice from me about that. I feel that he may be in for a shock if he's hoping to get the same amount of money for online classes as in-person ones...
If I wasn't mildly asthmatic, I would definitely go. I have no hand sanitiser, and the hall has no hot water, so hand washing isn't great there, though there is a sink, I'm sure nobody will be disinfecting the place. arg.
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Date: 2020-03-19 09:55 am (UTC)I don't think the cold water thing is an issue and presumably you could take your own soap - I'm popping to my pottery tutor's studio today to pick things up for online classes and this is my plan. However, I am not asthmatic...
Two hours is probably risky to be honest. Could you pop in for a brief chat with him and not touch anything?
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Date: 2020-03-19 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-19 03:11 pm (UTC)If he wants advice on video conferencing software, I've been recommending Zoom to everyone, it's the best one I've used and you can register for a free account, you're just limited to 40 mins hosting at a time.
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Date: 2020-03-19 12:11 pm (UTC)I'm in the same boat with my mentor: he's moving soon and he wants to meet again early next week. And I don't know what to do.
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Date: 2020-03-19 02:44 pm (UTC)