I thought my life was pretty routine before the coronavirus. No each day passes, a mirror reflection of the one before it. Weekends are a slight variation of course - no work that has to be done, although since I'm stuck at home there is no reason not to push forward with the work.
Essentially I:
- Wake up & shower
- Grab coffee (typically at Hanover but recently began experimenting with Black Fox over on Pine) for the two of us
- Sit down and work, work, work
- Take a break for lunch - either leftovers or I pop out for something.
- Workout - depending on my schedule I may do this at the end of the day or in the middle. It may be a workout programmed by either my box (Crossfit Oculus) or my brother (who is a physical therapist). Or it may just be a long run or bike ride. OOooooohhh, variety is the spice of life!
- Travis makes dinner or we venture out to find something to bring home
- I write and read a bit
- We watch a show or a movie
- Eventually I go to bed and Travis usually follows an hour or so later.
To catch up I'll talk about a few highlights:
- On Friday we reenacted Friday Night Fights - here's hoping that doesn't happen again!
- The weekend was actually quite rainy - which was good for me - made it easier to stay in.
- Still managed to squeeze in a long bike ride on Friday (when the weather was good) and a long run on the weekend, over the Brooklyn Bridge and through Dumbo (both of which were bizzarely yet expectedly quiet).
- Plenty of Zoom and Houseparty catch ups with friends new and old. So strange how out of touch I've been with some of these people
- I'm dying my hair blue - but currently stuck on blonde for a few days - blue will happen!
- Figured out our laundry place is only open on M/W/F from 9 to 3pm - so gotta time that shit right
- I refuse to do my laundry while living in NYC without a machine of my own - the cost to send it out is minimal and the time saved is invaluable.
- This may make me a snob. Or lazy. I'm okay with either label.
- I'm part of a book club, and we had our first online book club on Tuesday night. We had read "How We Fight For Our Lives" by Saeed Jones, an excellent memoir detailing the youthful experiences of gay, black man coming of age in the Southern states. Some further reflection on his sexuality would have been appreciated, but his writing is so beautiful and the focus of the story was on the relationship between he and his mother, which makes it well worth the read.
- I'm not much of a memoir reader but I happened to finish this book the same day I finished the audio book of "Educated" by Tara Westover. Wow, was this book a knockout. The shit this woman went through in her childhood - insane that she survived it, no exaggeration. Highly recommend that everyone read it.
- And just before this I read the graphic novel, "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. What an amazing biography (I believe) of the author's fathers survival of the holocaust as a Polish Jew and their strained relationship as adults. Another big reco!
- Now that writing class is over, a number of us regrouped this last Wed, on April 1st to keep the energy going. A bunch of strangers who didn't really meet much in person, but there is good energy and I'm excited about our ability to keep it going on a weekly basis, through the virus at least.
Anyhow, I think those are all the true highlights. Now that I'm caught up I can spend some time on day to day thoughts.
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