#4 Another 3 Weeks of Lockdown and I’m Still Havin’ Fun
It just occurred to me, as it might have to you: I’m putting zero effort towards crafting a thoughtful title. Right now I don’t have the luxury of time to make these blogs look good. Which is super weird. I have this habit of making to-do lists every morning. I aren’t very strict with myself, so I find a lot of activities being carried forward from one day to the next. This Medium post has been getting carried forward since at least a week.
I look at my calendar to get a recap of the last three weeks. My scores tell me that I had one good week at work, one average and the most recent, poor. Damn, is April over already? I’ve noticed that I swear a lot these days. The absence of effort to deliver well formed responses seems to have started getting to me.
Since airplanes are a rarity these days, I’d gotten into the habit of running to my balcony each time I heard one. I’m rarely disappointed. These aren’t the usual passenger aircrafts, at the very least they’re bigger. I’d also been maintaining a tally count of the number of ambulance sirens I hear in a day. I’d check the news for a second time in the day if the sirens exceeded the nominal daily average of five. Over the past week I’ve outgrown both the airplanes and the ambulances, I dunno if that’s a good thing.
On the reading front, I’ve completed the third chapter of this book I’d borrowed from my friend in last September. I hope to complete as many chapters as the number of lockdown weeks, so I’m currently lagging behind by two chapters. I stumbled across Zat Rana’s blog and his reading list reminded me of a few titles that I’d been considering, so I read a couple of Kindle samples, trying to decide whether to buy them once the bookstores are back. Also one night I slept really late (re?)reading att Might’s blog.
While listening to ‘Becoming’ had been nothing short of incredible, I don’t see audiobooks becoming a part of my routine. Even if I pick up the next audiobook, no more multi-tasking while listening. I’ve been trying to treat cooking, cleaning etc. less like a chore and more like something done with joy.
On YouTube I watched VICE News and Khalid Al Ameri along with the usual. Also, a couple of people I know have started their YouTube channels this lockdown so I’ve been watching their videos. Been trying to stop using YouTube search as my general web search, with limited success.
Also April 27th came by and went, so I called up a few of my friends. Considered opening FB and checking if there were any posts on the college group but didn’t. Searched around the house for my diary from that time but the ones I have end in Sem 4, can’t even remember whether I kept a diary in Sem 6. All this free time has proven that my head holds a lot of memories that I’d filed away and never gotten around to looking at again. I just hope these important ones always remain with me.
PS: Would’ve put more pictures but these days my gallery is filled with my meals, screenshots of home video calls and the view from my balcony. There’s a certain shade of blue of the ocean that gets me very happy, unfortunately my phone never quite captures it right :/
