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Via 
kirbyfest,
kass,
antisoppist, and others...
1. Are you an Essential Worker?
No.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?
1 bottle of chardonnay
5/6 bottle of Bordeaux
2 beers
1/3 bottle of Louisa's Liqueur ("Louisa Nelson was a woman of remarkable strength and character. . . .")
3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts? n/a
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?
There still aren't enough hours in the day.
5. How many grocery runs have you done?
5? If counting from around the Ides of March. We are down to one scant cup of soy sauce and no mirin, and I ate the last apple this morning, so I cannot put off donning the face mask much longer.
6. What are you spending your stimulus check on?
It will be split between part of a mortgage payment and the fee charged by our new estate lawyer to get our wills and directives updated. (See #15.)
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine?
The plans canceled so far through July would fill a whole entry.
My birthday is next month, and I hadn't planned to host a party anyhow (because of rehearsals for Grand Magnolia), but I'm still thinking of ordering an almond cake from Sweet 16th, even though I might end up freezing 3/4 of it.
8. Are you keeping your housework done?
I'm able to tackle more of it because I'm home all day (and because I'm less okay with all the dust and grime now that I am), but done? Cue fit of derisive laughter.
9a. What movie have you watched during this quarantine?
Saw You Gave Me a Song: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard Monday night, courtesy of the Southern Circuit Film Festival.
9b. What are you reading right now?
Good Omens and The Graham Kerr [aka the Galloping Gourmet] Cookbook
9c. What video game are you playing?
I consider Duolingo a video game. Diamond League, my dudes!
10. What are you streaming with?
YouTube/DailyMotion/Vevo, Spotify, and Hoopla (thank you, Nashville Public Library)
11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby? Oh hell no.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal?
Fried rice, with ketchup and a scrambled egg added to whatever odd tasty bits can be scrounged from the fridge and the yard.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid?
It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time?
It's periodically flaky, especially when I'm juggling both home and work connections.
15. What month do you predict this all ends?
"All" being the pandemic, or broad "safer at home" measures? Being deeply cynical, I suspect social restrictions here in the South might ease up by summer solstice or even earlier -- resulting in the curve roaring up three or four or even more times before people truly finally register (if indeed they ever do) that it's not going to end until enough of us cooperate with scientific realities and enough policymakers get their heads out of their asses for an effective vaccine not only to be developed but manufactured and distributed in sufficient quantity to inoculate the general population regardless of socioeconomic means. Which I'm guessing will be more than 18 months out, and given how such things often take far longer than hoped for, it would not surprise me if it takes 36.
All that said, I'm still mulling over whether to continue my membership at the Y. I'm leaning towards no, because I imagine that I will feel for a long time like I'm unnecessarily tempting fate every time I use the pool or sauna or shared equipment, and it's going to feel less safe walking alone across downtown given how many more people are now in dire straits. But I am so much better about pushing myself when I'm a regular at their classes. I am also admittedly reluctant to cancel since I would have to pay a new joining fee if I ever wanted to return, and I wouldn't get the discounted rate I have now, and who knows what their offerings will be once things get back to some pretense of normal. But that is bad math on my part -- the new fee would likely not exceed two months of what I pay now, and the full rate not exceed the total otherwise wasted on two or three years of minimal use. And moreover, pressuring myself to resume going to the Y before I truly feel safe there because it's paid for is the sort of daft thing my brain doesn't need to be doing to me.
(So, yay meme for nudging me into spelling all this out instead of the half-baked dithering I'd applied to the situation thus far.)
16. First thing you're gonna do when you get off quarantine?
Get a haircut and a massage. (Yes, there are people I miss, but it's not like I saw them every week or every month pre-pandemic, and I'm not a hug-my-colleagues gal.)
17. Where do you wish you were right now?
I was supposed to be sea-kayaking near Charleston right around now. (Though I'm also side-eyeing the hotel's email, sent last week: "We thought you would have rebooked by now...")
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?
Swimming laps and English country dancing and waltzing. And right now I don't know if I will return to any of those after the pandemic ends, although in English maybe it will become okay to wear gloves outside of formals.
(I mean, I probably will. I can be as stupid as many people when it comes to disregarding risk because the prospect of missing out becomes too much to bear. But I also don't lack for other diversions -- or, for that matter, obligations. And there's also working to help save the republic . . . )
(Not incidentally, my stats as of Monday: More than 1300 postcards sent since mid-2017, including 123 for Jill Karofsky (Wisconsin Supreme Court). Plus additional cards sent in response to recommendations from Americans of Conscience, plus some self-initiated messages and calls in reaction to other feeds and sources.)
19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer?
No, although the current stash of TP is on the scratchier side than what we usually keep on hand.
20. Do you have enough food to last a month?
No. I like fresh produce and meat (and general variety) too much (just ask my friends in Detroit who had to put up with me craving salad when we were hitting dive bars). Although I also have trouble resisting sales, which is ironically why we have a good supply of paper towels and wipes (both purchased pre-lockdowns), along with three boxes of Hamburger Helper, a huge bag of tulsi leaves, and other testaments to past bouts of impulsiveness and ridiculousness.
This entry was originally posted at https://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/163223.html.
kirbyfest,
kass,
antisoppist, and others...
1. Are you an Essential Worker?
No.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?
1 bottle of chardonnay
5/6 bottle of Bordeaux
2 beers
1/3 bottle of Louisa's Liqueur ("Louisa Nelson was a woman of remarkable strength and character. . . .")
3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts? n/a
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?
There still aren't enough hours in the day.
5. How many grocery runs have you done?
5? If counting from around the Ides of March. We are down to one scant cup of soy sauce and no mirin, and I ate the last apple this morning, so I cannot put off donning the face mask much longer.
6. What are you spending your stimulus check on?
It will be split between part of a mortgage payment and the fee charged by our new estate lawyer to get our wills and directives updated. (See #15.)
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine?
The plans canceled so far through July would fill a whole entry.
My birthday is next month, and I hadn't planned to host a party anyhow (because of rehearsals for Grand Magnolia), but I'm still thinking of ordering an almond cake from Sweet 16th, even though I might end up freezing 3/4 of it.
8. Are you keeping your housework done?
I'm able to tackle more of it because I'm home all day (and because I'm less okay with all the dust and grime now that I am), but done? Cue fit of derisive laughter.
9a. What movie have you watched during this quarantine?
Saw You Gave Me a Song: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard Monday night, courtesy of the Southern Circuit Film Festival.
9b. What are you reading right now?
Good Omens and The Graham Kerr [aka the Galloping Gourmet] Cookbook
9c. What video game are you playing?
I consider Duolingo a video game. Diamond League, my dudes!
10. What are you streaming with?
YouTube/DailyMotion/Vevo, Spotify, and Hoopla (thank you, Nashville Public Library)
11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby? Oh hell no.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal?
Fried rice, with ketchup and a scrambled egg added to whatever odd tasty bits can be scrounged from the fridge and the yard.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid?
It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time?
It's periodically flaky, especially when I'm juggling both home and work connections.
15. What month do you predict this all ends?
"All" being the pandemic, or broad "safer at home" measures? Being deeply cynical, I suspect social restrictions here in the South might ease up by summer solstice or even earlier -- resulting in the curve roaring up three or four or even more times before people truly finally register (if indeed they ever do) that it's not going to end until enough of us cooperate with scientific realities and enough policymakers get their heads out of their asses for an effective vaccine not only to be developed but manufactured and distributed in sufficient quantity to inoculate the general population regardless of socioeconomic means. Which I'm guessing will be more than 18 months out, and given how such things often take far longer than hoped for, it would not surprise me if it takes 36.
All that said, I'm still mulling over whether to continue my membership at the Y. I'm leaning towards no, because I imagine that I will feel for a long time like I'm unnecessarily tempting fate every time I use the pool or sauna or shared equipment, and it's going to feel less safe walking alone across downtown given how many more people are now in dire straits. But I am so much better about pushing myself when I'm a regular at their classes. I am also admittedly reluctant to cancel since I would have to pay a new joining fee if I ever wanted to return, and I wouldn't get the discounted rate I have now, and who knows what their offerings will be once things get back to some pretense of normal. But that is bad math on my part -- the new fee would likely not exceed two months of what I pay now, and the full rate not exceed the total otherwise wasted on two or three years of minimal use. And moreover, pressuring myself to resume going to the Y before I truly feel safe there because it's paid for is the sort of daft thing my brain doesn't need to be doing to me.
(So, yay meme for nudging me into spelling all this out instead of the half-baked dithering I'd applied to the situation thus far.)
16. First thing you're gonna do when you get off quarantine?
Get a haircut and a massage. (Yes, there are people I miss, but it's not like I saw them every week or every month pre-pandemic, and I'm not a hug-my-colleagues gal.)
17. Where do you wish you were right now?
I was supposed to be sea-kayaking near Charleston right around now. (Though I'm also side-eyeing the hotel's email, sent last week: "We thought you would have rebooked by now...")
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?
Swimming laps and English country dancing and waltzing. And right now I don't know if I will return to any of those after the pandemic ends, although in English maybe it will become okay to wear gloves outside of formals.
(I mean, I probably will. I can be as stupid as many people when it comes to disregarding risk because the prospect of missing out becomes too much to bear. But I also don't lack for other diversions -- or, for that matter, obligations. And there's also working to help save the republic . . . )
(Not incidentally, my stats as of Monday: More than 1300 postcards sent since mid-2017, including 123 for Jill Karofsky (Wisconsin Supreme Court). Plus additional cards sent in response to recommendations from Americans of Conscience, plus some self-initiated messages and calls in reaction to other feeds and sources.)
19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer?
No, although the current stash of TP is on the scratchier side than what we usually keep on hand.
20. Do you have enough food to last a month?
No. I like fresh produce and meat (and general variety) too much (just ask my friends in Detroit who had to put up with me craving salad when we were hitting dive bars). Although I also have trouble resisting sales, which is ironically why we have a good supply of paper towels and wipes (both purchased pre-lockdowns), along with three boxes of Hamburger Helper, a huge bag of tulsi leaves, and other testaments to past bouts of impulsiveness and ridiculousness.
This entry was originally posted at https://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/163223.html.