The Second Half

1. Are you an Essential Worker? Yes, but I get to work from home.

2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started? In my imagination a bottle of wine every night, but in reality, none.

3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts? All grown and helping with shopping.

4. What new hobby have you taken up during this? Work is occupying most of my attention.

5. How many grocery runs have you done? Three? Two in gloves, one in a mask, too. But roommate does most of the runs.

6. What are you spending your stimulus check on? Not eligible (Canada) because I'm still working (yay!).

7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine? Am missing my local library and all the new books I have on order there. And work. I miss the office.

8. Are you keeping your housework done? About the same as usual.

9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine? None. But I am watching Ugly Delicious on Netflix. And watched Mandalorian.

10. What are you streaming with? Various, but I zone out with video so for about ten minutes a session with rare exceptions that keep my attention (Mandalorian).

11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby? (Laughing) No. That ship left many years ago.

12. What's your go-to quarantine meal? Pasta, eggs, ordering for pick up.

14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time? No (knock wood).

15. What month do you predict this all ends? July and then back out again in the fall. Depends on vaccine development mostly.

16. First thing you’re gonna do when you get off quarantine? Go to the office! I miss it. Then go shopping for fun.

17. Where do you wish you were right now? At the office. (It's a large office with lots of people and good equipment and a much larger desk.)

18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most? Shopping (mostly to look and think and not have to interact, rather than to purchase).

19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer? Never had hand sanitizer and in earthquake country we had a stock of toilet paper and such already. Donated the extra masks though. (Bought them after a bad forest fire year with thick smoke. Plus in case Mount Baker erupts.)

20. Do you have enough food to last a month? Yes, but it would be pretty dull, as long as the power stayed on. (Full deep freeze.) I'd miss fresh produce horribly.

Still here, still kicking. Working on downsizing so it's easier to fit into a 1-2 bedroom apartment in a bit over a year. It takes a while. So far I've taken one book out of the Get Rid Of boxes, that I realized I did want to keep. There's another that I keep dithering over because it's the Lloyd Alexander books in one volume and everyone recommends it but I can't remember if I've read it since high school. Turns out SF Book Club editions do hold up fairly well, by the way. Some of mine are from 1971 and still look great. Which didn't use to feel like a long time ago, but the Home Reno shows keep referring to the '80s as Very Very Outdated.

We'll see. 

Things I've discovered: you have to know your character before even writing by the seat of your pants can work; knowing your lead character is harder than it looks; we're still arguing over her name because what she wants wasn't in usage until long after the story takes place, by about 400 years, so maybe she's from a different story or I'm taking the easy way out in telling this story and she's trying to fix that.

Otherwise things continue as normal, for the new kidless normal.