#I'm an introvert who can spend whole four-day-weekends indoors

[kaesaaurelia]

Events of today:

- Took my temperature.  (It’s fine.  I wasn’t feeling great yesterday but nobody is, are they?) - There are birds! Outside! It’s almost like spring out there! - Ordered food from a local diner for breakfast; got biscuits and gravy.  Very delicious.  Contactless delivery worked out okay. - Wrote about a thousand words, lost 4k words in a very weird computer glitch and managed to recover them.  (Oh my god, backing my Scrivener stuff up in Dropbox saved my life.) - Dishes, some kitchen cleaning - Coughing?  Can’t tell if it is a Real Cough, allergies, or me eating biscuits and gravy for breakfast.  All things come at a cost. - 2 hour stress nap. - Updated myself on the situation.  Situation is bad, like it was before.  Consider going back to sleep, but alas, cannot sleep through entire pandemic. - Envious of a fictional demon for amazing sleeping abilities. - Collected potentially useful local resources and linked them in the FFA Discord.  It’s not a Chicago Discord, it’s just... you know.  I’m there so it’s Chicago now.  (Sorry, nonnies.) - Phone call with my mother where she kept trying to invite me over since I don’t have work.  “I’m diabetic but I’m not at any greater risk than anyone else, so it’s fine!” she says.  No.  “Also you should visit your grandmother,” she says.  No.  “At least call her more.”  I am calling her every other day, mom!  I ended up crying a lot.  She kind of implied that I might as well visit my grandmother and risk giving her COVID-19 because she’s probably gonna die of it no matter what.  My mother is not very good at .......things?  people?  feelings?  Tried to get her off the phone for a while by explaining that I needed to make dinner, but it took a while.  I cannot recommend calls with my mother for raising the spirits. - Anxiety spiral that meant I wasn’t cooking dinner until 9 pm.  Gave up, had something I didn’t need to prepare. - At least there there are cute videos from the Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum tiding me over. - And cute local museum Twitter arguments. - Is it weird to ship museums?  Is that weird??? - We are all weird today, it’s fine. - Took a post-apoc fashion selfie for some friends.  Wonder how many weird looks I will get if I go out dressed like that to get groceries. - Speaking of groceries, discovered that Jewel Osco is out of delivery spots for the foreseeable future and I can’t unskip my Blue Apron deliveries for the weeks I was going out of town and the nearest grocery store is a 10 minute bus ride away and idk what they’ll even have. - Cool cool cool.  That’s cool.  Okay. - Gonna pretend I’m just trying all these cool restaurants that deliver now, and use up what’s in my pantry.  I do have a lot of canned food at least? - Kicked myself for not renewing my library card before this happened. - Kicked myself for not dragging friends to Russian Teatime like I meant to before this happened. - Although I have to wonder, if I was in the Loop, would they deliver a full afternoon tea?  This sounds delicious.  The only downside of not living in the Loop, probably, is that when you’re quarantined you can’t get Russian Teatime delivered. - Went through my hoard of postcards and greeting cards to find out what I have.  I have a fuckton!  So I’m going to try writing postcards to people.  Will be working through my normal vacation postcard list first, and no idea when I’ll be able to send them since it looks like the mayor’s going to order us to shelter in place tomorrow maybe?  IDK she’s doing a live address tomorrow. - I mean that shit lives for up to 24 hours on cardboard anyway, so there’s no real hurry I guess. - Tomorrow, health and social distancing permitting, I am going to go out and exercise.  I need that.  I need the lake.