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Jul. 19th, 2020 03:30 pmI can't believe we're past halfway through July. Time is like a spiral staircase right now - you spend so long focusing on every step and turning properly, which feels interminable, you don't really realise how far up or down you've gone.
The prime minister is promising 'significant normalcy by Christmas', which - well. We'll see. I know the economy doesn't work like that, but I'm so okay with putting my life on hold for one year, until a reliable vaccine is available, to not get a terrible disease. But it seems like Britain - or at least the government - wants to just get going again like nothing's happened. Some people are acting like nothing's happening. And we're still planning on leaving the EU properly this winter, apparently, and no-deal is looking more and more likely, so - yeah. The future's very...exciting.
I went to my local games shop on Friday, and have been more or less freaking out ever since. Quietly, in a 'did I wash my hands properly?', wiping down everything I brought back from town, and wiping down every they touched, sort of way. I still don't feel like I'm very clear on 'surfaces' in terms of infection control. How is a plastic games case different from a plastic counter? But they tell you to wipe one down and not the other. But I also know I'm anxious and freak out about everything, and mum is also the same, so we're living in a collective panic really.
The social worker for my nephews is meant to be coming over on Tuesday, to discuss more face-to-face contact with them. But then my local area, Wakefield, is also possibly on the points of a local lockdown. So who knows what's going to happen. I just keep playing video games, which I can't get from my local shop without freaking out a bit. But there's nothing I really want coming out until October now - I want Crusader Kings III, but that's going to be on PC. So I don't even have any opportunities to support them coming up, even if I wanted them. I spoke to the guy behind the counter, and he said they were actually in a pretty good place, with furloughing and loans and things, so there's no reason to think they'll go under any time soon. And I'm going to give them a pretty huge chunk of cash when the PS5 comes out, assuming they don't run out of pre-orders before I get in contact. So. I don't know. It's funny. So much of life, and the economy, seems to have been built on being relaxed, wandering around, pissing about and impulse buying. And it doesn't seem like we're going to be doing any of that any time soon.
I can't believe the 'Karen' thing. If only Donald Trump knew he just had to call Hillary a 'Karen' instead of a 'nasty woman', he could have saved himself a whole heap of trouble. Not that it really impacted him much.
The prime minister is promising 'significant normalcy by Christmas', which - well. We'll see. I know the economy doesn't work like that, but I'm so okay with putting my life on hold for one year, until a reliable vaccine is available, to not get a terrible disease. But it seems like Britain - or at least the government - wants to just get going again like nothing's happened. Some people are acting like nothing's happening. And we're still planning on leaving the EU properly this winter, apparently, and no-deal is looking more and more likely, so - yeah. The future's very...exciting.
I went to my local games shop on Friday, and have been more or less freaking out ever since. Quietly, in a 'did I wash my hands properly?', wiping down everything I brought back from town, and wiping down every they touched, sort of way. I still don't feel like I'm very clear on 'surfaces' in terms of infection control. How is a plastic games case different from a plastic counter? But they tell you to wipe one down and not the other. But I also know I'm anxious and freak out about everything, and mum is also the same, so we're living in a collective panic really.
The social worker for my nephews is meant to be coming over on Tuesday, to discuss more face-to-face contact with them. But then my local area, Wakefield, is also possibly on the points of a local lockdown. So who knows what's going to happen. I just keep playing video games, which I can't get from my local shop without freaking out a bit. But there's nothing I really want coming out until October now - I want Crusader Kings III, but that's going to be on PC. So I don't even have any opportunities to support them coming up, even if I wanted them. I spoke to the guy behind the counter, and he said they were actually in a pretty good place, with furloughing and loans and things, so there's no reason to think they'll go under any time soon. And I'm going to give them a pretty huge chunk of cash when the PS5 comes out, assuming they don't run out of pre-orders before I get in contact. So. I don't know. It's funny. So much of life, and the economy, seems to have been built on being relaxed, wandering around, pissing about and impulse buying. And it doesn't seem like we're going to be doing any of that any time soon.
I can't believe the 'Karen' thing. If only Donald Trump knew he just had to call Hillary a 'Karen' instead of a 'nasty woman', he could have saved himself a whole heap of trouble. Not that it really impacted him much.
