Musings Of A Socially Distanced Professor: New Habits

Here I sit at my house. Thanks to COVID-19, my town is pretty much locked down. Most places are closed, including the campus where I work. I am working from home for the rest of the semester. That doesn’t really bother me.

That said, I do see some problems looming ahead that I think we better address.

First, there’s the simple problem of getting fat(ter). No walking to the office from the car every day means less exercise. No walking around the classroom while I teach also means less exercise. Less exercise means weight gain.

I’m not looking forward to that; it’s bad enough being over 50 and dealing with that declining metabolism, and it’s going to be even harder to manage now.

People are going to develop some new and potentially bad habits during this time. If you’re working from home, wearing what you want, eating what you want, talking on the phone to your friends periodically during the day because you can—are you going to stop doing those things when it’s time to go back to the office? Probably not (and if you are, prepare for withdrawals!).