plague journaling
Apr. 26th, 2020 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksI just want to go to the fucking library again?! I want to sit in their air conditioning and read a slightly outdated copy of Bon Appetit while downloading podcast episodes to my tablet on free wifi. I want to request a completely unreasonable number of movies and audiobooks and churn through them in, like, a week, while I check out a book and renew it as many times as I'm allowed while still never managing to read it.
That's how I spend my Thursdays. I know, each week, that I'll get off work on Thursday and I'll go to the library for a couple hours. I want to do that.
Which is to say, I understand why people are freaking out about wanting their routines back. Their bowling alleys and their hair and nail salons and their bars. I too want to have my mundane pleasures.
I mean, I don't understand protesting about it. Because
a) I don't want to die,
b) I don't want to be the reason anybody else dies, and
c) I'm not enough of an ASSHOLE to say that a) OR b) are reasonable risks in exchange for going to the library.
Yes, the lockdown sucks in any number of ways. You're not having fun. Get over yourselves. Rant about it online like a decent shut-in the way the rest of us do and move on. *grumble grumble*
That's how I spend my Thursdays. I know, each week, that I'll get off work on Thursday and I'll go to the library for a couple hours. I want to do that.
Which is to say, I understand why people are freaking out about wanting their routines back. Their bowling alleys and their hair and nail salons and their bars. I too want to have my mundane pleasures.
I mean, I don't understand protesting about it. Because
a) I don't want to die,
b) I don't want to be the reason anybody else dies, and
c) I'm not enough of an ASSHOLE to say that a) OR b) are reasonable risks in exchange for going to the library.
Yes, the lockdown sucks in any number of ways. You're not having fun. Get over yourselves. Rant about it online like a decent shut-in the way the rest of us do and move on. *grumble grumble*
