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The end of quiet time in the home.

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Title (Dublin Core)

The end of quiet time in the home.

Description (Dublin Core)

I am very lucky. I have a job that allows me to work 12-hour shifts, which means I have three or four days off a week. I used to have the time while my daughter was at school and my wife (a teacher) was at work to relax or work on my master's classes. These classes take concentration and time to read and write, and noise is very distracting to me. I should also mention that we purposely bought a small house, less than 1300 sq. feet. Suddenly in March, 2020, my world (at the risk of sounding selfish) was changed. My wife was teaching from home, juggling rooms back and forth with me for computer usage etc., while my daughter was asking for help with school. The voice mail attached is a memory I have of my comfortable little environment changing. This particular voicemail surely caused stress and anxiety to the parents of 16,000 students in one district. Even today listening to it feels ominous. Ironically, today I dropped my daughter off for the first time at in-person school, and I was sad to see her go.

*Voicemail sound file from my child's school district announcing school closures.

Date (Dublin Core)

October 13, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kyrene School District Administration (March 30th, 2020)

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Jason Inskeep

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story
audio file

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Community & Community Organizations
English Education--K12
English Emotion
English Health & Wellness
English Cities & Suburbs
English Home & Family Life
English Labor

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

voicemail
noise
working from home
wife
child
father
distraction

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Sensory History
school
voicemail
introvert

Collection (Dublin Core)

K-12

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive
Jason Inskeep Biography Sheet

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/13/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/13/2020
04/16/2021
05/25/2022

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on October 13, 2020 by Jason Inskeep using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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