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Mar. 23rd, 2020 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyNB: I have to live with my dad, and I can't leave.
On a more practical note, I am going to phone work tomorrow to confirm that I am not essential and won't be expected to come in next Monday. I assume I'm not, they don't even need receptionists on the weekend, when people are in. And I will ask what the pay situation is, although I'm not hopeful for that. I don't even know if I'll get paid for the week and paid leave I've had any time soon, will anyone be in to do payroll? I don't know.
I mean, fucking finally, though. I've been trying to think about what I can/will do for the next three weeks though, and have started to realise I really don't know what 'essential' is, or who key workers are. Like, I assume people still have to come collect the bins? But they haven't mentioned that in the key workers list. Meanwhile bank workers were on there, but to what degree? And I'd been assuming I could still order things from Amazon or whatever, for boredom reasons, because they said people were still getting deliveries in Italy during lockdown, but it seems so unlikely they would consider books from the Book Depository essential. Maybe they just meant food deliveries? No-one is being super clear. I bought a couple of things over the weekend, and I don't even know if they'll be posted, if post people are among the ones who now have to stay home. Which services will still run? What does it mean?
It's my birthday on Friday. I got into astrology over the last few months, mostly because I was looking for things to redecorate my room with, and all anyone says about Aries is that they like bright red, and bright red is my favourite colour, so they would just say 'try redecorating with these red things!', and I was very happy to look at them. Anyway, the point is that I was looking forward to Aries Season, and now lockdown.
But on a specifically birthday-related note, I had plans for this week, with my time off. I was going to go to Colchester zoo, which is apparently the only zoo in England that has spotted hyenas, which I love. But then it seemed like things might have to be cancelled, so there was no point booking them, so that was a no. I was going to go on a coach trip to the Yorkshire Dales, which I've never been to, but then you weren't supposed to gather in small places with strangers, so no. I thought we might be able to go to a nice pub nearby for Sunday lunch, but no. I thought at the very least I could convince someone to take me to Pizza Hut this week, but no. Lockdown. My mum is working on my birthday, so at this point it's not even looking like we'll be able to get the household to gather round and sing round a cake. And they don't know what to buy me at the best of times, so I was mostly expecting money, but we're not supposed to handle cash at the moment so it'll be a bank transfer I never seen. I suppose I might see mum in the morning, if I get up. There are bigger problems at the moment, obviously, and lots more people will have to miss birthdays as the lockdown goes on, but still. It's disappointing.
There has been no yelling from the kitchen, so I assume any water damage hasn't shown through so far, dad and I already argued tonight because he likes Boris Johnson and I thought his announcement was vague and unclear, pray for me.
On a more practical note, I am going to phone work tomorrow to confirm that I am not essential and won't be expected to come in next Monday. I assume I'm not, they don't even need receptionists on the weekend, when people are in. And I will ask what the pay situation is, although I'm not hopeful for that. I don't even know if I'll get paid for the week and paid leave I've had any time soon, will anyone be in to do payroll? I don't know.
I mean, fucking finally, though. I've been trying to think about what I can/will do for the next three weeks though, and have started to realise I really don't know what 'essential' is, or who key workers are. Like, I assume people still have to come collect the bins? But they haven't mentioned that in the key workers list. Meanwhile bank workers were on there, but to what degree? And I'd been assuming I could still order things from Amazon or whatever, for boredom reasons, because they said people were still getting deliveries in Italy during lockdown, but it seems so unlikely they would consider books from the Book Depository essential. Maybe they just meant food deliveries? No-one is being super clear. I bought a couple of things over the weekend, and I don't even know if they'll be posted, if post people are among the ones who now have to stay home. Which services will still run? What does it mean?
It's my birthday on Friday. I got into astrology over the last few months, mostly because I was looking for things to redecorate my room with, and all anyone says about Aries is that they like bright red, and bright red is my favourite colour, so they would just say 'try redecorating with these red things!', and I was very happy to look at them. Anyway, the point is that I was looking forward to Aries Season, and now lockdown.
But on a specifically birthday-related note, I had plans for this week, with my time off. I was going to go to Colchester zoo, which is apparently the only zoo in England that has spotted hyenas, which I love. But then it seemed like things might have to be cancelled, so there was no point booking them, so that was a no. I was going to go on a coach trip to the Yorkshire Dales, which I've never been to, but then you weren't supposed to gather in small places with strangers, so no. I thought we might be able to go to a nice pub nearby for Sunday lunch, but no. I thought at the very least I could convince someone to take me to Pizza Hut this week, but no. Lockdown. My mum is working on my birthday, so at this point it's not even looking like we'll be able to get the household to gather round and sing round a cake. And they don't know what to buy me at the best of times, so I was mostly expecting money, but we're not supposed to handle cash at the moment so it'll be a bank transfer I never seen. I suppose I might see mum in the morning, if I get up. There are bigger problems at the moment, obviously, and lots more people will have to miss birthdays as the lockdown goes on, but still. It's disappointing.
There has been no yelling from the kitchen, so I assume any water damage hasn't shown through so far, dad and I already argued tonight because he likes Boris Johnson and I thought his announcement was vague and unclear, pray for me.
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Date: 2020-03-23 10:58 pm (UTC)I am really properly sorry about your birthday, it's a horrid time for it.
Astrology is definitely absolutely true, which is weird because there is no way it can be, but it believes in Paul and John's absolute perfect union so we can't argue with it.
There is so little actual information about what ANYTHING means at the moment. Like you say I have no idea what essential really is or what is still going to happen and what isn't. I've also lost all track of the meaning of time, everything feels very distant and unreal.
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Date: 2020-03-27 11:24 pm (UTC)Also I've been meaning to tell you about starlings. Apparently starlings are very good mimics, and will happily pick up new bits of melody to incorporate into their songs, to try to impress the lady starlings with. So maybe if you play the Beatles very loudly through the window, or at a decent volume in the garden, maybe your starlings will start singing you the Beatles sometimes instead of their awful noise.
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Date: 2020-03-28 08:51 am (UTC)Okay. I would definitely like my starlings better if they whistled me the beatles and taught it to their terrible babies. I will pick a song, and play it endlessly until my neighbours start throwing things at me. (Trouble is I feel like obladi-oblada might be the easiest to pick up, but also the one most likely to drive the whole neighbourhood to death.)
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Date: 2020-03-24 01:10 pm (UTC)Astrology is quite neat! :) I am sorry that you will be missing out on Aries Season, though.
I hope that the work situation will get resolved as best it can be, and I am so sorry about how all of your birthday plans have been put on hold currently. That really does suck, but I hope that somehow you will be able to celebrate at least a little bit later on.
I hope that being stuck inside the same space with your dad won't be too stressful somehow. *crosses fingers*