veronica

( Movies I've logged beneath the cut because um, it's been a lot )

So… yeah, things sure are happening!

Hello from Brooklyn, now one of the epicenters of coivd-19. As we had our first possible tenuous exposure to covid back on March 9, we have pretty much been in social-distancing mode since then, working from home and only going out to the grocery store/pharmacy or for brief exercise walks. On my end, the courts have all closed, but they're now running online hearings for certain emergency issues so it's not really any less work. Other than I don't actually have to go to court, which is not nothing. I've been a little envious of people talking about how they have extra free time, if I'm being honest, while I feel like nope I pretty much have the same 9-5 job, I just have a little more energy from not having to deal with a commute. But also now with every archaic logistical problem with the legal system thrown into super sharp relief.

But we're also extremely lucky. I've had zero indication of job or pay insecurity so far (there's the matter of our union contract expiring in July but uh, we'll see – regardless given the fallout this will all have on the courts I don't see them wanting to lose anyone at the moment). varadia moved down here last year so I don't have to deal with this alone. She sold her old condo back in January which is epically fortuitous timing and gives us a comfortable pillow in savings. And we got in a trip to Star Wars Land at DisneyWorld, which included briefly getting to see my mom, in mid-February. I don't know when I'll be able to physically be near my parents again – so far neither of us have shown symptoms I think are likely covid related (I've had the occasional cough, but I think that's from postnasal drip due to my allergies/rhinitis being worse than usual from being stuck inside), but there's no way of know if we're pre- or asymptomatic and for the moment we basically have to assume we are. So… who knows, there's no real timeline in this.

But I know, this is what we're all living with, who wants to relive it. I was trying to keep a coronavirus journal for a little bit but it feels the same as when I was trying to journal after Trump's election – I already lived through all of this, why am I making myself do it again. But given that there's also being Stuck At Home, there's not a whole a lot else to talk about because otherwise it's taking long baths while reading or watching all Disney movies in chronological order because damn it I paid for this disney+ subscription or rewatching Sexy Tudors for some reason (I started it but now we're at the fall of Anne Boleyn and I don't want to keep going…). Maybe some day I'll finish the fic I'm currently working on, though this was a bad time to be stuck with a fic that's very much getting myself to write the Upsetting Thing I'd Usually Sidestep, so.

I guess there are books that I've read, which:

( Exhalation by Ted Chiang )

( Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain )


( Little Women )


And in inevitable Star Wars media, I also read the third Thrawn book, but I'll complain about space fascists separately. And I guess I could also write about Star Wars Resistance since I did watch all of it (short version: it died as it lived, not knowing wtf it wanted to do), and eventually the return of Clone Wars. I'm currently reading Delilah S. Dawson's Black Spire, and I do want to talk about visiting Star Wars Land as it was an all-around positive Star Wars experience, but I'm thinking about waiting until I finish this book and just writing about the two together because… yes it is a Disney park advertisement. I do also think it's doing a pretty decent job of being more than that but. It is definitely also that.

(I should also talk about Doctor Who sometime given that I did watch it, and it actually did a thing that I love and really never get, but was also... not great.)

In any case, that's the update from the social distancing front – it sucks, but we're also really fortunate.