Oh, 2021 what a year you have been
Not a coworker or student to be seen
Lockdown loneliness sucks
Coffee shops are taking my bucks
Writing covid poetry is freeing.
I am going to self nominate for a poetry competition. Perhaps I can pip a few preppies at the local show. I do feel that in the midst of this lockdown I have lost some ability to articulate my thoughts. The words just don’t come as quickly. I frequently find myself trying to remember the word for this and the word that describes that. I cannot wait to be back among humanity and complaining in length about the traffic on the way to work. Oh to be in a traffic jam, those were the days.
I am excited about hearing what the kids at school have to say about their lockdown lives. What they’ve been watching, reading and they are probably looking forward to seeing people other than their immediate family too.
Book week 2021 was fun but in a very different way than usual. Our school made the award-winning books available to students as ebooks and we had a fun zoom book chat. Staff dressed up for the chat and while students were invited to dress up, they came, as I suspect they did for all classes, in the lockdown classic Oodie.
As library staff, we chose to dress up as characters from the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend. We came dressed as the retired cage fighting now head of housekeeping magnificat Fenestra and Jupiter North, Wundrous Society member, explorer and self-declared handsome ginger. My favourite Jupiter North quote is, “They’re looking at you because you’re with me and they’re looking at me because I’m very handsome.”
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