.....that sentence out of context..... It sounds like every musician I`ve ever worked with. Wondering why the hell I`m awake. Sunday (since it`s almost four and I don`t think I can call it today anymore) was another day like most of the rest this month...no energy, anxious, releasing once again my trauma still has a grip on me, and just getting SOME things done but not much. March has been kinda a bust, and this extra free time has kinda been wasted by me feeling frozen in my bed like i`m unable to move. Think it needed to happen though...I can`t run from the trauma...this idea of oh I`ve already had my "traumatized" period I can move on now was...stupid. I never coped with it, healed anything, just oh nervous breakdown and emotional flashbacks..dropped out of college..two years spent moping...ok it`s done now I have a job now. Which...no, it`s kinda a life long healing journey thing, idk just made me realize I needed to once again adjust how I looked at things. Hoping to pull some things together for April, starting to see some paths ahead. Hotels mostly all clean and the pandemic is exteneded until April 30th so plenty of free time. We`ll see what happens.
Trying to decide whether to purchase Mark Dawson's Self Publishing 101 course, now that he's making it available on a two-year payment plan. Everything says I would benefit from it . . . if I don't forget I have it, and forget to check in like I do with my author email, etc. But if they cancel school for the rest of the spring, this might be the ideal time. Not sure yet.
Working up the nerve to put the replacement motherboard in my desktop PC. I'm told it's easy, but I always figure out a way to mess these things up.
Waiting for the clock to hit 7 and then I'm going to disappear into the black hole that is my brain and write like there's no Thursday.
Just got home from the grocery store (we got like 10 things, no panic buying for us!) because we needed stuff. It wasn't that crazy given we just got the "lockdown" order.
After mentally recovering from Tiger King, I'm now watching The Boys. Wow! This series is fantastic. Amazon Prime is beginning to really establish themselves with some of their originals.
My pc crashed and after 3 failed restarts and a failed repair I accidentally realised what seemed to be causing the problem. I just had to unplug ruthlessly while screaming the damn external disc. I think my pc gets jealous whenever I copy files from it to an external to the point that it becomes a sass that takes pleasure in fucking with me. "Oh, so now you want to plug another power sucking vulture on me, because apparently I'm not good enough anymore." "I never claimed you ever where. You're actually a fucking piece of junk and I got work to do." "Hm! I see... You get one port then. Choose, what will it be: The wifi or the xtrnal disk?" "AAAAAAAAAAAA"! Your lockdown just started? I've been living like a hermit the past 3 weeks and I got another 2 to go (I think). Where do you live?
Ours has yet to start. The governor of Tokyo prefecture asked people to stay home last weekend but had no authority (yet) to issue an order. News cameras showed Tokyo looking more like a normal big city and less like, well, Tokyo, but still nothing on the level of New York or Chicago with their shutdowns. This is the Shibuya station scramble crossing on a normal day: This is during a voluntary "shutdown":
Athens is almost empty and the suburbs where I live in have turned into a ghost town. It's the first time I've seen this place like this and it's pretty weird. If only I could roam! It'd be the peeeerfect time to film a movie, but the fine is so damn heavy. Update upon work: Although Premiere got installed and opens, it won't render shit. It loads the vids and the audio, but it just won't play with me. Oh, well. I tried... Fuck...
Yup. So many photo essays out there about how things look without any people, I wonder who's doing the filming and are they just playing hide and seek with the authorities or are they operating under their nation's version of "freedom of the press"?
If you are working as a photoreporter, they give you an official paper from your working place and you can use it to roam outside, since it's work related. Not all jobs are paused. If you can justify your reason for being outside it's fine. As for the rest of us:
Filled up my dish rack from washing dishes, and pitched my gloves afterwards. Funny thing is my hands feel pretty good, but gonna lotion them anyways cause my skin is terribly dry. But, yay dishes are clean.
Wow, you all live in such different places I'm from a small town in Arizona so we've been a bit slower. We don't have nearly as many cases or nearly as many people so close together. My husband and I, and most others, have been holed up in our houses since early March but we're OFFICIALLY on lockdown now. So basically nothing has changed for me. I did just learn that our schools were cancelled for the rest of the school year (and I am a teacher D: AND this means that my husband won't be paid for a few months. In other news, my pugs have never been happier!
I'm a teacher too, at a uni in Japan. Schools are delaying their start dates; the Japanese school year runs from the start of April to the end of December (or January, depending on how many national holidays your school takes). Fortunately I get paid 12 months a year, so this will adjust my schedule but not my budget.
Well, TBH I think at first they were trying to keep the Olympics on schedule. The official announcement that they would be delayed was on 24 March. That comedian I mentioned in the Notable Deaths was hospitalized on the 20th, diagnosis confirmed on the 23rd, but the announcement of his illness didn't come until the 25th, and he died just yesterday. There were also no major requests for people to stay home until Thursday the 26th, at which point it was admitted announced that there were major outbreaks in Tokyo and the prefectures surrounding it. The TeeVee doctors are still trying to connect everything to Japanese who had traveled abroad, but right now unless you are highly symptomatic and can show that you may have had contact with a Dangerous Person you cannot be tested. Japan is using 1/6th of its testing capability (as of last week), but we're sealing the borders to any non-citizens who have been to Europe, the Americas, China, Korea, and parts of S.E. Asia. Because it's a foreign problem, y'see. That sounds a little intemperate, and it probably is.