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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Apr 1, 2020 17:40:00 GMT -5
I'm only mildly affected by the current situation. I'm working from home now and Isadora Is a Door is at home and doesn't have to work (whilst still getting paid). Most of the day he watches or listens to stuff which is more interesting than my work, which is a bit distracting. I also get a bit jealous looking at the online world coming up with fun ideas to do at home, which I don't have time to do because I work. The work I do is about as far from essential as it gets, but it doesn't depend on anyone ever leaving their house, so we just keep going as usual. It's annoying, but I'm glad I still have a job. Food shopping has become a bit complicated because you can't get any deliveries and we don't have a car, so we can only get a limited amount of stuff home at a time. Good excuse for an extra walk every few days though. I don't like that there are no long term plans, because I like planning ahead, so I would prefer if they just said "Nobody is going anywhere for 3 months" instead of "We will do this for 3 weeks and then see what happens". We have booked flights to visit my family in the end of May, and don't know if we should change them or wait a bit, and I don't know if it makes sense to sort out travel plans to a relative's wedding in July. I know it's all unpredictable, but I think we all know that it's not going to disappear in a few weeks, so it should be possible to have a plan for a bit longer than that.
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Post by B. on Apr 2, 2020 4:43:35 GMT -5
I'm supposed to still be finishing my masters, so doing work for that from home but it is going very slowlyyy. I can also still tutor maths and physics from home so that's good to have a bit of extra money coming in.
At times it's hard not to feel like everything has been taken away from me. I'm not a person that keeps to themselves, so I miss all my friends, I miss going out with them and doing fun things. I agree with Anka that the uncertainty is probably the worst. It feels like the travel plans I had and everything else I was looking forward to got cancelled basically. Also hard to come to terms with the fact that I'm basically missing out on a year of life that I won't ever get back, but literally the entire world is in the same boat. I'm thankful that I have my two flatmates for company and that I'm young and healthy.
I'm staying sane by still keeping up with my running training, working out at home, baking and cooking a lot and learning Italian.
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Post by Hermes on Apr 2, 2020 6:44:42 GMT -5
I thought the three week thing was only about enforcement - we aren't supposed to go anywhere for three months, that's known, but the police are only authorised to stop people for three weeks in the first instance.
Yes, going to shops is good. I've started going to larger shops rather than the local ones, which I think is fair because they do actually have more stuff, including necessary things, but is also a good excuse for a walk.
But the whole situation is weird, and makes you think in weird ways. I look around and say 'How crowded this street is', when actually there are three people in it.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 2, 2020 7:37:45 GMT -5
Everything is very strange. I believe that it is important to go to smaller supermarkets, to encourage small business owners to continue working. The world economy will face a major crisis that will take time to end ...
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Post by Hermes on Apr 2, 2020 8:15:27 GMT -5
WEll, the same companies own the large ones and the small ones, so choosing one over another won't lead to them going bust. But yes, there's a tension between the government saying 'go to shops as little as possible' and the shops saying 'don't take too many things at once', and I have a vague fear that if we avoid the shops too much then suddenly there will be no shops.
EDIT: Also I had a weird dream the other day: I was coming out of a supermarket, and I saw someone I know standing next to me, and she said 'You're not supposed to move at all, you know'. And I thought this was a bit unfair, because she was clearly moving, but then I woke up.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Apr 2, 2020 14:31:35 GMT -5
As I was leaving a shop today (a large supermarket), i got stopped by a guy who worked there stopped me under the suprious claim that he hadn't seen me pay for any of the food that i bought. I mean, i showed him the reciept and stuff, but even then he seemed to be a bit distrustful of me for no real reason. I had a trollely literally full with food (for the next 2-3 weeks i'm not greedy!!) and it had taken at least 10-15 minutes to queue and pay for the food plus i'd put it all in bags and stuff so idk.... He treated me pretty shadily as though there was something really odd about what I was doing, and i've never had anything happen like that before... odd times.
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Post by Reba on Apr 2, 2020 14:50:50 GMT -5
i assume yalls wedding is put off now, or did you already do it without telling us? or not have a date anyway? my brother was going to get married next month but they've had to put it off a whole year.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Apr 2, 2020 16:44:31 GMT -5
It's not until October next year, we haven't even really started organising it yet
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Post by Reba on Apr 2, 2020 17:13:34 GMT -5
oh that's good. and thanks for informing us, i sent misterm a kind message about it but he wouldn't respond
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Apr 3, 2020 1:10:49 GMT -5
oh that's good. and thanks for informing us, i sent misterm a kind message about it but he wouldn't respond I was worried that you'd turn up.
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Post by B. on Apr 3, 2020 3:59:47 GMT -5
As I was leaving a shop today (a large supermarket), i got stopped by a guy who worked there stopped me under the suprious claim that he hadn't seen me pay for any of the food that i bought. I mean, i showed him the reciept and stuff, but even then he seemed to be a bit distrustful of me for no real reason. I had a trollely literally full with food (for the next 2-3 weeks i'm not greedy!!) and it had taken at least 10-15 minutes to queue and pay for the food plus i'd put it all in bags and stuff so idk.... He treated me pretty shadily as though there was something really odd about what I was doing, and i've never had anything happen like that before... odd times. Yeah people/society in general definitely feels like it's on the verge of being a little unhinged. About a week ago I was walking back home in the evening having just gone out for some air, and a police car pulled over and the man behind the wheel asked me where I was going and how many times I had been out the house that day. He wasn't aggressive, and seemed satisfied when I said 'home' and 'only once', but still so weird, I never thought I'd live in a world where I'd be questioned for being outside. I really hope the lockdown here doesn't get tighter (although it might). It'd be salsa if they restricted how far you could go from home or how long you could exercise outdoors for.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 3, 2020 6:08:37 GMT -5
As I was leaving a shop today (a large supermarket), i got stopped by a guy who worked there stopped me under the suprious claim that he hadn't seen me pay for any of the food that i bought. I mean, i showed him the reciept and stuff, but even then he seemed to be a bit distrustful of me for no real reason. I had a trollely literally full with food (for the next 2-3 weeks i'm not greedy!!) and it had taken at least 10-15 minutes to queue and pay for the food plus i'd put it all in bags and stuff so idk.... He treated me pretty shadily as though there was something really odd about what I was doing, and i've never had anything happen like that before... odd times. This is weird... I was going through this kind of situation even before Covid-19 ...
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Post by Dante on Apr 3, 2020 6:29:28 GMT -5
It's been a long time since I've posted in Menacing Miscellaneous (what do you mean it's not called that anymore?), but these really are strange times. I am presently concluding week two of my own medically-mandated twelve-week self-isolation. In many ways, this does not involve a great deal of alteration to my usual routine; I live a somewhat hermetical existence, and am fortunate, as one with a health condition that makes me particularly vulnerable, to have a great deal of support. But there are bitter disappointments to this. I am something of a walker, and will miss visiting the wild places at their loneliest and feeding the local crows; and as the weather improved I was hoping to perhaps take Antenora to afternoon tea again, and we have a number of castles and landmarks we looked forward to exploring.
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Post by Hermes on Apr 3, 2020 9:32:33 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your health problems, Dante, hope things work out OK.
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Post by Reba on Apr 3, 2020 10:21:24 GMT -5
Germes lol ☝️😆
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