Quarantine

[anarfea]

I'm back from my business trip to New Jersey. And because I visited a friend in New York, I've been instructed to self-isolate for 14 days. I'm on day 5. My husband was told he can come and go as long as I stayed six feet away from him. LOL. So, he's isolating too. Except, we have made a few trips to the grocery store for essentials. But we're working from home, and not going any place we don't have to. I find that I'm really struggling to focus while working from home. It's hard to telework. But I'm doing my best.

I'm still doing the Artist's Way. It's comforting to have some consistency during these times, and I feel like the morning pages are helpful to clear some of the nonsense out of my brain, even though it's mostly whining about how much I hate being cooped up and how scared I am for the global economy and of getting sick and how much I want everything to go back to normal. For whatever value of normal there is while Trump is president.

Anyway, I will try to keep checking in here. 

Comments

[violsva]

It really does seem to be more difficult to focus now even than it is at home when one has a regular schedule. (Sorry, I am writing today and my sentence structure may be rather antique at the moment.) Routine is so helpful.

Sorry you are having to do the hardcore version of social distancing. Stay well.

[clevermanka]

Thank you for checking in. I'm on day four of my isolation. yaaaaayyyyyy

[vulgarweed]

Hoping for the best for you. My job start has been postponed so I'm still hunkered down with my parents in North Carolina. They're in their 70s and my dad has asthma so I'm not going anywhere unless I have to for the foreseeable future.

It feels different when you can't go out, then when you just don't want to. Focusing is very difficult.

[anarfea]

Yeah. The thing I miss most is going to coffeeshops and writing. I mean, I can write at home. But I miss being out.