So many months
May. 9th, 2020 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathleen_daileyAll of February, all of March, all of April--and it appears that I haven't done, read, or seen anything worth posting about. Hard to believe, but I can't seem to summon the energy to be creative.
The Covid lockdown hasn't changed my working habits very much, because I've been used to working from home for many years (that is, the years when I wasn't compelled by circumstances to be onsite at the downtown office). I'm distressed to know that the outdoor summer events that we usually anticipate so eagerly--Pride, the art fair, Caribana, the music festivals, patio season in general, etc.--are cancelled, and I miss being able to get together with friends for lunch. And having had to reschedule so many medical appointments was, as it were, a huge pain. But I can't really say that I'm hard done by in comparison with so many others who are having to suffer through this. We know one person who has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, but even he says that he feels fine (though he's been confined to his room at the retirement residence until he has two clear tests in a row).
Right now it's snowing (on May 9--how? why?) while the sun is shining at the same time. We'll hang around the house today and save our grocery trip for tomorrow or Monday. Until then, I'm working my way through Earthly Powers again. Funny, when I read it in the 1980s, just after it was published, I was fascinated; I could barely put it down. Now it seems more like work than pleasure; I'm trying to remember what I found so compelling about it.
The Covid lockdown hasn't changed my working habits very much, because I've been used to working from home for many years (that is, the years when I wasn't compelled by circumstances to be onsite at the downtown office). I'm distressed to know that the outdoor summer events that we usually anticipate so eagerly--Pride, the art fair, Caribana, the music festivals, patio season in general, etc.--are cancelled, and I miss being able to get together with friends for lunch. And having had to reschedule so many medical appointments was, as it were, a huge pain. But I can't really say that I'm hard done by in comparison with so many others who are having to suffer through this. We know one person who has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, but even he says that he feels fine (though he's been confined to his room at the retirement residence until he has two clear tests in a row).
Right now it's snowing (on May 9--how? why?) while the sun is shining at the same time. We'll hang around the house today and save our grocery trip for tomorrow or Monday. Until then, I'm working my way through Earthly Powers again. Funny, when I read it in the 1980s, just after it was published, I was fascinated; I could barely put it down. Now it seems more like work than pleasure; I'm trying to remember what I found so compelling about it.
