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My anxieties about travel may be moot. I want to stay in my cozy home in Buffalo with my dude and my cat and my reluctant self finally getting my house cleaned, but I was psyching myself up to go to the farm where they are overloaded with work, and had convinced myself the correct thing would be to leave Thursday, and I spoke with my sister via text finally (it’s taken her three days to have time to text back), and she is too worried that she herself has been exposed. They’ve been trying to isolate, but they can’t run the farm alone so there’s a collection of people who come through fairly often, and most of them are reasonably isolated but one mom whose daughter is her daughter’s bestie and the two of them roll around playing all the time, well, her husband’s an auto mechanic and so he’s ‘essential’ so he’s still at work with a bunch of assholes and no way to decontaminate himself most of the time, and there are a few other people who come by to help whose isolation status she just doesn’t and can’t know, and so my sister is just all twisted up with anxiety that her household is a bastion of disease, and doesn’t want my asthmatic ass turning up to get plague-murdered.
So I’ve been asked to stay away, and I’m guilty about it but also sort of relieved, for the moment. I have known for some time that it was literally going to take an Earth-shattering, Biblical-scale event for me to get my house beaten into any kind of human-livable state, and I guess this is one. [also, uh, i don’t usually have time to write at the farm and i really want to finish this stupid Witcher story cycle and try to ride some of that energy into the original novel I was working on as well, so.]
God, I’m so guilty, though.
My anxieties about travel may be moot. I want to stay in my cozy home in Buffalo with my dude and my cat and my reluctant self finally getting my house cleaned, but I was psyching myself up to go to the farm where they are overloaded with work, and had convinced myself the correct thing would be to leave Thursday, and I spoke with my sister via text finally (it’s taken her three days to have time to text back), and she is too worried that she herself has been exposed. They’ve been trying to isolate, but they can’t run the farm alone so there’s a collection of people who come through fairly often, and most of them are reasonably isolated but one mom whose daughter is her daughter’s bestie and the two of them roll around playing all the time, well, her husband’s an auto mechanic and so he’s ‘essential’ so he’s still at work with a bunch of assholes and no way to decontaminate himself most of the time, and there are a few other people who come by to help whose isolation status she just doesn’t and can’t know, and so my sister is just all twisted up with anxiety that her household is a bastion of disease, and doesn’t want my asthmatic ass turning up to get plague-murdered.
So I’ve been asked to stay away, and I’m guilty about it but also sort of relieved, for the moment. I have known for some time that it was literally going to take an Earth-shattering, Biblical-scale event for me to get my house beaten into any kind of human-livable state, and I guess this is one. [also, uh, i don’t usually have time to write at the farm and i really want to finish this stupid Witcher story cycle and try to ride some of that energy into the original novel I was working on as well, so.]
God, I’m so guilty, though.
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Date: 2020-03-24 03:10 am (UTC)I think she is right. We have accepted from the beginning of this that we have to be more careful even than most and not just as a socially responsible act. Alex is allergic-sometimes-asthmatic, Laura immune-compromised, and I am old (75) and not in fabulous condition. I am only sorry that we did not start taking more precautions earlier, that they were not even recommended earlier! So irresponsible. Trump pushed that agenda.
Stay home, clean your house, write! You have plenty of ways to entertain yourself--so much more than most people!
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Date: 2020-03-24 03:30 am (UTC)stay in touch with them, and use your time to write and clean/organize as time, inspiration & energy allow
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Date: 2020-03-24 12:12 pm (UTC)Eta: wtf autocorrect