Almost 7 weeks since my first official day of quarantine. This is difficult. No family, no lovers, no roommates, no pets. Just the occasional telemediated conversation. If not for the Internet, I would’ve lost my shit weeks ago, or would’ve broken quarantine. I guess I can thank my years of being alone, working alone, sitting …
Category Archives: Health
Pandemic, People, Purity, Paranoia
I think what twists us up the most about COVID-19 is that we have to assume everybody else has COVID-19 until they prove that they have COVID-19. That’s a hyper-paranoid way to walk through life. It really is. It’s like saying, “you have to assume everybody else is the secret police until they prove that …
Virulent
This has been my life for the past 5 days. Get your flu shots, kids.
Flow Go
Europe has different things by custom and design. Let’s take the most basic of essentials — toilet paper. In Europe, the sheets are rectangular. Ours are square. It’s an odd thing to notice. Two of their sheets is three of ours. So for smaller tasks with a single sheet, you can actually do more with …
Three Minutes, Three Gallons
“Soooo, what’ve you been up to lately?” Me: