partaaaaaay :party-parrot-mask:
I'm feeling nostalgic for the early days of lockdown now. It was such an eerie time- dead silence throughout the city, no cars or pedestrians, tension and fear in the air. And most of the urbanized world experienced it together. It was the most connected I've ever felt with the rest of humanity.
and then the clapping and the singing started...
idk the only stuff early pandemic i liked was everyone watching the same 2 or 3 shows...
i honestly feel like the last year was a waste of my life.
made next to no progress on my writing, haven't seen my partner in over a year (he lives in europe and I in USA). Never see any friends, etc.
got fat, and have recently been losing some weight (also helps that my anxiety and depression kill my appetite).
Basically the highlight of my pandemic was getting back into video games (for better or worse).
If you had told me, when I was sent home from my job, that one year later I still wouldn't be able to go back to work... Well, I don't know what I'd have done. Probably packed my things and left the city where I live. No point staying here without the gainful employment that comes with the high cost of living. But now I'm stuck, not enough money to move somewhere else, hoping that things open up before I run out of unemployment. In the unfortunate situation of knowing that things can't go back to normal, but needing them to for my own financial well-being. So yeah, 2020 was great :big-cool:
Yeah nuts because my office shut down pretty quick - like they were intially talking about going until Friday but on Wednesday things moved real fast and they shut down that day. I figured it might last for a bit but I wasn't expecting getting laid off in June. Really weird when you're WFH. Just got a phone call and was told to talk to IT about meeting them to drop off my laptop. Not that I was super close with my co-workers but I wasn't expecting to never see any of them again.
I also miss seeing my reactionary friends keep talking about how it was no big deal but then having to take it back a bit and plant a new flag, only have to keep taking it back again.
Here's a part of my diary entry from March 12th 2020:
"People are starting to lose their shit over this corona business. We're going to buy some extra groceries tomorrow. The stock market had it's biggest crash since the 80s. The USA pumped 1.5 trillion dollars into the stock market and nothing happened. They could have canceled the entire student debt. We might be entering a recession. Good times."
1 year of only the fun things I liked stopping, like casually seeing people and going to concerts by conscious, good bands
Good part: i've been able to play way more ttrpgs this year
Bad part: i'm rapidly spiraling into alcoholism
its honestly really funny. i distinctly remember that week, because i was on the old sub-megathread, and i posted about i had it on good information that the much of the country was about to be shut down, and someone tried to charge me up in the comments asking me if i knew this why i wouldnt go to the news about it and calling me a liar and whatever....
like why exactly would i go and tell the media something they probably already knew, just weren't going to report it until it happened. because, if I knew it, then of course they already probably knew it lmfao.
but it was really funny because i got to be smug in my own head about being right.
