You wake up and realize it was all a dream. You look at your files and you see that you have only 20 words written for your thesis. It is still 2020 of November.
COVID
is raging.
Someone walks up to you with a poison capsule and offers it to you.
Turned out that The British Singer's therapist was actually the same Argentinian therapist Fed used. Hilariously, it turned out that I was not living in
Berlin
and instead was living in
Argentina
this entire time. I was that therapist. "But what about all the nights we hung out?" I asked...
Since I was around ten years old, my love for food was somehow amplified. I started to eat more, and with more came along "bad" food. I fell for
popcorn
,
potato chips
and
chocolate
. Although my braces set a limit on the chocolate input (since then, eating "normal"...
It has been a while since I have written here. Nothing special about it, I just didn't find the time or muse to craft something. Well, that changed on Monday.
After more than two years of a global
pandemic
COVID
arrived in my body. I'm not sure where I picked it...
COVID
vacation
paramedic
cigars
PCR Test
cruise ship
Venice
Mediterranean sea
health personnel
Wacken Open Air
cigar lounge
I was just at the test centre to get a
COVID
PCR Test
. I'm not feeling sick, but I needed to board a
cruise ship
on Saturday in
Venice
. I will finally enjoy an 8-day
vacation
on the
Mediterranean sea
.
But one thing's for sure. I'm glad to be spending these sickly days in a warm
Polish
home. With the fire going. With the sound of a child explaining his latest fascination to his mom. With the kitchen heating up leftover
barszcz...
what makes things like
COVID
so difficult is because there are too many instances where both sides can be true.
Like in this case -- we are totally in sync about
malingerers
-- as in the other day my gf who manages appointments for some university program told me everybody's cancelling on her with flu like symptoms, this thought came into my head:
I bet a lot of people are going to start saying they have symptoms and blackball their managers/employers who will have no recourse but to say 'sure take the day off/don't come in'. But this 100% acceptance rate of symptoms can only last for so long if even a minority of people abuse it.
So that's one side of truth. There will definitely be malingerers. But then it's also true that the system before was completely messed up as well. The system in where people were coming in sick!
Also there's one huge 100 pound cherry ontop of this shit cake. Which is the fact that most
Americans
have such abysmal lifestyles that their health is in poor shape and they actually are feeling that sick that often.
All of this is basically out of scope for any employers to solve. Tough City
I remember when
COVID
first hit the states feeling this euphoria. I almost felt like an upperteenager who confronted by
WW2
. I saw COVID as this thing that I could tackle as a servant.
Baz
COVID
200WAD
Ray Bradbury
Disney
The New Yorker
co-writing
In a moment of inspiration I once challenged
GabrielGreco
back in 2020. This was back when the two of us were writing on and off on 200WAD. Back before
Baz
announced that it would be closing. I sold Gabriel on the premise of...
One thing that fascinates me is that you wholeheartedly claimed that
COVID
has been an awesome time for you and treated you well. Yet you have this fierce macro discontent.
It seems that actually most of your discontent -- expressed form at least -- heavily leans towards macro. You get pissed about the publishing industry and shitty readers rather than your micro/personal writing habits.
Adding an LOL here cause I don't want this to come off as me being pissed or angry at Gabriel. I always try to challenge him and his thinking lol.
Ah this is the new hot topic issue of the internet I believe. No longer are people fascinated by talking about
COVID
.
You know it's funny that you bring up how you can't understand how people wouldn't side with
Palestine
. But I am someone who leans more towards
Isreal
... though that opinion is changing more everyday.
I hope one lasting consequence of
COVID
in the U.S is a blurring of work-time.
There's a saying like fish in water to mean sometimes you don't know something you're so ingrained within. The concept of work-time has been something I've been fish-in-water for.
