Greetings, Internet! Yet another week has passed in which I have not left the apartment. This may have something to do with general concern over the air in my tires (I really need to fill them, and also see if there’s an issue with my tire). Music has taken over my life, but in a … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 16
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as possible. We’ve passed the one-hundred day mark, so, break out the confetti (or something, I don’t know, I eventually just treated myself to a pretty bracelet). Oh, and Phase II of NYC reopening is happening, so that’s exciting. I’m kind of enjoying my rockstar hair … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 15
Greetings, Internet! I’m posting this on Juneteenth, so go educate yourselves on American history/support a black-owned business. Hope everyone’s doing all right, relatively speaking. I didn’t go outside this week (I think there’s a bit of my tire that’s not quite where it should be?), but I did lots indoors, including recording, songwriting, and finishing … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 14
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s keeping sane and fighting the power in whichever way you’re most able to do so. I finally went outside after eighty-six days straight of being indoors, so that was a nice twenty-minute change of scenery. Also, I have a flute now! Her name is Fleur. She will make an appearance on … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 13
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s staying as safe as they can, and are wearing masks if they are going outside to protest. I’m located somewhere between Union Square and Herald Square, so, right between the protests and the looting. At various times this past week, I've heard the chants of protestors, sirens, and loud bangs. At … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 12
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s doing as well as can be given all of the seriously messed up things that happened this week outside of our quarantine bubbles. This week I got to see my family for an afternoon (pie was had, which was amazing), learned that perhaps now is too early to add flute into … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 11
Greetings, Internet! How’s everyone doing? Academia continues to plummet both on my campus and across the country/world, I’ve been learning about the world of flutes, my video posting schedule has gone from Monday/Wednesday/Friday to Monday/Thursday, the WiFi went out in my neighborhood for the first time since the lockdown began, and I started therapy! What … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 10
Greetings, Internet! I’m remembering that I’m a graduate student with academic obligations (that I shall continue to fulfill even as academia crashes all around), so this week has been a neat balance of non-dissertation-related readings and a seminar. Also went on a “Phantom of the Opera” kick, as if I was back in senior thesis … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 9
Greetings, Internet! This is the week I got to unbox my guitar, name her (Ginny!), and play her until visible cuts appeared on my fingers (lovely visual, but the cuts shall heal, and then I shall become a better player). I also ate a lot of cake as I read about the implosion of academia/higher … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 8
Greetings, Internet! How’s everyone doing? Well, April happened. That was somehow fast and slow? The ukulele channel has upgraded to a setup with a real microphone, the world continues to be chaos, and I’m actually making progress with some of the main primary sources of my dissertation (even though it is looking less and less … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 7
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