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For nearly four months, the days have been blurring anonymously into each other. It started before the spring equinox and now we're past the summer solstice. What have I accomplished? Not all that much, to be honest.
Part of it is that even routine activities seem to be so much more complicated. If I want to start some activity around the house, I'll suddenly find I don't have all the supplies I need or that I would ideally like to have on hand. If I want to go out anywhere, I have to make sure I have a clean mask on hand. And a lot of the places I'd like to go are not yet open, even at Ontario's "Stage 2" of re-opening. They say we may be at Stage 3 by the end of July, but no one really knows for sure. And even as things re-open, procedures all seem so complicated and not really worth the effort if they're things I normally do for fun and are not really essential activities. I mean, what if you reserve a time to use an outdoor swimming pool and then when the time comes, it looks like there's a thunderstorm brewing? What if you go downtown to visit an art gallery but once you get there, there's a long physically-distanced lineup and when you finally do get there, you don't have enough time to really see what you wanted to see because they're having to limit how much time each person can spend there? If we want to go anywhere by car, we have to remember about starting it every few days or else it rebels.
So for now, I'm mostly staying home or close to home. I've been reading. Lots of mystery and thriller type books and I've been on a bit of a nordic noir kick lately. Mikkel Birkegaard's The Library of Shadows; Pia Juul's The Murder of Halland; Romy Hausmann's Dear Child. Now I'm reading Oscar's Books, about the personal library of Oscar Wilde.
I've been sorting papers as well, organizing a file cabinet, clearing out some drawers. I've been putting away winter clothes and getting out summer ones, and trying to cull my wardrobe a little bit too. It's kind of a tedious process so I just do a bit at a time.
When things do get to a later stage of re-opening, I know there'll be quite a bit to catch up on in terms of routine personal and preventative maintenance appointments like doctors, dentists, blood tests and other diagnostic procedures. I wish I could plan ahead more and schedule things in some systematic way. I also wish I had a few more specific things to look forward to.
At the outset we were told: it may take weeks, it may take months. Well, it's already been months! I guess there's light at the end of the tunnel - I just wish someone could give me a realistic estimate of the length of the tunnel!
Part of it is that even routine activities seem to be so much more complicated. If I want to start some activity around the house, I'll suddenly find I don't have all the supplies I need or that I would ideally like to have on hand. If I want to go out anywhere, I have to make sure I have a clean mask on hand. And a lot of the places I'd like to go are not yet open, even at Ontario's "Stage 2" of re-opening. They say we may be at Stage 3 by the end of July, but no one really knows for sure. And even as things re-open, procedures all seem so complicated and not really worth the effort if they're things I normally do for fun and are not really essential activities. I mean, what if you reserve a time to use an outdoor swimming pool and then when the time comes, it looks like there's a thunderstorm brewing? What if you go downtown to visit an art gallery but once you get there, there's a long physically-distanced lineup and when you finally do get there, you don't have enough time to really see what you wanted to see because they're having to limit how much time each person can spend there? If we want to go anywhere by car, we have to remember about starting it every few days or else it rebels.
So for now, I'm mostly staying home or close to home. I've been reading. Lots of mystery and thriller type books and I've been on a bit of a nordic noir kick lately. Mikkel Birkegaard's The Library of Shadows; Pia Juul's The Murder of Halland; Romy Hausmann's Dear Child. Now I'm reading Oscar's Books, about the personal library of Oscar Wilde.
I've been sorting papers as well, organizing a file cabinet, clearing out some drawers. I've been putting away winter clothes and getting out summer ones, and trying to cull my wardrobe a little bit too. It's kind of a tedious process so I just do a bit at a time.
When things do get to a later stage of re-opening, I know there'll be quite a bit to catch up on in terms of routine personal and preventative maintenance appointments like doctors, dentists, blood tests and other diagnostic procedures. I wish I could plan ahead more and schedule things in some systematic way. I also wish I had a few more specific things to look forward to.
At the outset we were told: it may take weeks, it may take months. Well, it's already been months! I guess there's light at the end of the tunnel - I just wish someone could give me a realistic estimate of the length of the tunnel!
