Stray thoughts under partial quarantine

[catalog]

Do you mean 'are you enjoying quarantine?' I sort of am really, feel a bit guilty for doing so, but otherwise it's like a relaxing holiday

 

[luka]

That's what I mean, yes. I think we all desperately needed this.

 

[catalog]

Just can't help worrying that something bad might happen to me or someone I know. Like, shit might get real sort of feel, in the back of my mind. But other than that, I don't mind not having to go out so much, got a garden. Pretty lucky really.

 

[luka]

Do you make quite a lot of money?

 

[catalog]

No

 

[luka]

Well you can't have everything. You need to be a multi millionaire to have a garden in London that's why I ask

 

[catalog]

Yeah not quite the same up north. But im still massively priveleged I know that. Very lucky. I'm starting to feel bad vibes from some of the new stories I'm seeing, people who are not so much social distancing as trapped in bad circumstances etc.

 

[yyaldrin]

i miss meeting people, it's lonely

 

[Corpsey]

There are definite upsides to it. Imagine going out in central London after this - all those people. It'll be fucking weird and overwhelming.

 

[woops]

it's overwhelming enough going to the local shop, all those people

 

[Leo]

there's obviously loads of added stress (health, job, dodging invisible COVID droplets when at the market, etc.) but it is nice to have lots of previously required decision making off the table. not having to go out and socialize when you don't really feel into it, not having to negotiate a day when people can make it, not having to wait 20 minutes for the subway at midnight, not having to go out in shitty weather, not spending money on stupid things.

can't say the pluses really outweigh the minuses, but the pluses are pretty good.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Yeah, I'm enjoying not having to drive to work and back every day. Saving a small fortune on fuel, too.

 

[catalog]

It's so much more civilised.

 

[Leo]

not wearing out any shoe leather!

 

[catalog]

3 hours near enough in commuting time per day for me. And I can pretty much do all I need to do at home. Gonna be tricky getting me back in the office 5 days a week afterwards

 

[luka]

My sister is saying the same thing. A lot of people are going to be very reluctant to go back to the old routine now they know they can do their jobs just fine from home.

 

[Leo]

while you have distractions at home and there's no boss looking over your shoulder (so you can slack off), working in an office environment can be even worse. there's always someone dropping by your desk to shoot the breeze, lots of water-cooling BS, or maybe you get pulled into irrelevant meetings just because you're present and visible. I've worked from home since 2002 and haven't once missed working in an office once.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

One of those perfect spring days. Crystal clear out on the downs, the sea becalmed and aglitter. Birdsong and diverse scents charm the air Maybe there is something in the practice of sacrificing humans to appease the spirits. the blood gods have been appeased and reward the living with halycon days. XR should invoke and serve the blood gods in future now that mass death has a use case.

 

[luka]

So when you lot talk to yourselves do,you do it in your normal voice or do you put on other voices, silly voices?

I want an answer to this question

 

[catalog]

I do it in normal voice, but it's a whisper