Write a weekly journal for the next ten weeks. That’s it. Write at least 300 words once a week.<\/strong> Keeping your privacy concerns in mind, choose a medium for a digital journal. You decide how public you want it to be. It can be an Instagram account, or a Tumblr, Blogger, or WordPress blog. It can be a collection of pdfs. You decide what makes the most sense for you. Once you have created your Pandemic Journal, if you wish to share it with us, please post the address as a comment below (on this post). <\/p>\n\n\n\n In his diary of plague in Oran, Algeria, Albert Camus’ character the good doctor Rieux describes himself in the first few pages of the novel The Plague<\/a><\/em> as a narrator with three kinds of data: “first, what he saw himself, secondly, the accounts of other eyewitnesses,” and third, “documents that subsequently came into his hands” (6). Through these, he will write the story of what happened and how plague tore through Oran and how it eventually subsided, only to bide its time until the day when again “for the bane and enlightenment of men, it would rouse up its rats and send them forth to die in a happy city” (308). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Like Camus through Dr. Rieux, many writers have used the form of the journal as a way to keep track of time, record events, and reflect on the human experience during outbreaks of pandemic disease such as HIV\/AIDS<\/a> or Bubonic Plague<\/a>. The journal is an inherently reflexive genre, so it encourages the spilling of guts, so to speak. The journal brings its reader into the intimate experience of the narrator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can use different forms of data, both experiential and archival to analyze the events unfolding in this pandemic. That is, you can draw information about the human experience during the current pandemic of COVID-19 from the ways it is affecting your life, how it’s affecting the lives of those around you, and from scholarly sources, as well as from the internet and mass media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keeping track of your experiences throughout the next ten weeks will help you stay in touch with your emotions, which is helpful to mental health<\/a>. It will also help you see patterns that may emerge that could be instructive or illuminating for you as you reflect on them later, and it can give you an outlet for your creativity, which is always good for your wellbeing<\/a>. Don’t forget to drop your URL below in the comments! Also, take a moment to read and comment on someone else’s Pandemic Journal. In ten weeks, we will have a substantial human archive of this plague. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NOTE: Both classes will do this assignment. Folks taking the “Humans & Non-Humans” class, please pay special attention to how this pandemic is affecting non-human animals, landscapes, and the environment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Write your story of this moment Write a weekly journal for the next ten weeks. That’s it. Write at least 300 words once a week. Keeping your privacy concerns in mind, choose a medium for a digital journal. You decide how public you want it to be. It can be an Instagram account, or a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,12],"tags":[15,18,16,17],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/adrianagarrigalopez.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hurt-as-rieux-300x222.png\")