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haiku:
im watching netflix
while i’m writing this poem
and drinking coffee

diamante:
quarantine
claustrophobic, monotonous
drawing, painting, cleaning
netflix, pasta, sleep, iphone
tanning, eating, facetiming
boring, lazy
lockdown

C-coronavirus
O-outbreak
V-virus
I-isolation
D-drive through testing

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1. Good as Hell
-honestly i don’t listen to music that much so Lizzo is one of the few singers i like. i’ve been enjoying quarantine in some ways because it’s given me an opportunity to relax and stop stressing.
2. I Forgot That You Existed
-generally i’m not a fan of Taylor Swift, especially the earlier country albums. i do however like Lover though and i’ve been listening to it a lot over lockdown.
3. i’m so tired...
-again i really don’t listen to much music, and when i do it’s exclusively pop but i like this one because i think Lauv has a beautiful voice and i like the lyrics quite a bit.
4. I Love Me
-i really don’t like most of Demi Lovato’s songs. i’ve been really enjoying listening to the spotify pop playlists and saving the songs i like.
5. The Man
-Another song from Lover that i like, and the music video is one of the better ones produced. but i also really don’t know how to describe why i like the music i like.
6. Ça va ça vient
-i’ve been trying to listen to french music to make sure my comprehension stays fairly mediocre. i just looked up french pop and saved the ones i liked.
7. El Amante
-i’ve also been listening to latin pop and it’s one of my favorites so far. i mostly like it because it’s energetic and easy to listen to.
8. Look At Her Now
-honestly i needed 8 songs in the playlist so i added this one. in reality it’s just mediocre like 6/10 but it’s on a lot of my playlists so i was just like whatever and the lyrics are chill.

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interview

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/18uXD9ZUp9qYUvDcJIngr8-zb1SchJB8s3-E2RcBbEMU/edit

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/18pz55V1I9QDZLZvCuajm2MlmkiEHglJ9zRZd-R9rTTo/edit

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Pandemic Dictionary

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my opinion piece

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i’m so sorry for this

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basically my family and i don’t really celebrate many holidays, so easter is sort of the most celebratory we will go except christmas

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ok so basically it wouldn’t let me download the full video but i was going to say basically i miss school and being around loads of people at a time and also learning to incorporate online could benefit all of us. (also i got annoyed at myself watching this back with the amount of times i said “like” so feel free to skip this because it does not get better midway through!!)

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on a walk

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unfortunately, i’ve started to want to go to school, which means i must be extremely miserable at home because waking up early is the worst idea that ever existed. i’ve been rewatching lots of tv shows on my ipad and realizing how amazing Netflix is.
i’ve been enjoying painting lately so i sit on my floor and watch movies and paint landscapes all day. i keep wondering what this will be like when i’m older. how will this be portrayed by history? will it be like the same great depression? living through history is different than hearing about it in class.

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i’ve been making a lot of online shopping orders. a tank top i ordered came. it’s a cream color with pink laced through it and it feels like a sweater. i regret many of my purchases. i have more coming on sunday and i hope i don’t continue impulsively buying clothing to keep me from boredom. i’ve been getting very stir crazy. julia and i took another walk today and i saw so many kids outside.
one thing fascinating about this strange time is that it’s making people, even adults, revert back to a happier-even childish- state of mind. everything is simpler now. you can’t work. you can’t go to school. so what can you do? mostly, technology. thank god i wasn’t born 100 years ago. dodged a bullet. but because we humans do need to occupy our time with something other than a screen, we have started to take more walks. more bike rides. we have started to realize the only socialization we may get is on these short periods of time we spend outside.
i wonder how this is will affect climate change. for now, it is good. at first, i was happy because of all the good this was doing. the animals coming back to their homes and the air clean and healthy; except that after this the economy will be so horribly damaged that climate change will be pushed to the back. again. as always, it feels like. and it’s so fascinating to me that coronavirus, which will kill maybe 70 million of us, is scarier than climate change, which will kill 7 billion of us. why is this so much scarier than our home being destroyed by our selfishness?
i speculate it is because we are so selfish. the idea that if we go out, we could die is easy to grasp. it is your responsibility, and you have to pay up if you don’t follow the rules. but if you’re told, that you can try to help, but it likely won’t work, that you may do all you can and it won’t be enough, why should you try in the first place?

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i walked around lakewood cemetery today for several hours. julia and i had a social distancing picnic in the funeral. when i was dropped off at her house to walk from there to the rose garden, i immediately regretted my choice of footwear. generally, barely worn, (probably-should-be-considered-rainboots they’re so huge) doc martens aren’t my first choice but then again i make bad life decisions.
i made it just barely into the cemetery before i forced off the boots and carried them while i hobbled on the rocks of the cemetery path or the pine needles that fall onto the grass so the ground is just sharp pointy sticks. i quickly realized this wasn’t much better than the boots, but since we were planning to go to the rose garden we wanted to cut through. we followed google maps until we got to the gate. it was, of course, closed.
i sometimes wonder if god, or whoever it is pulling the strings up there, likes seeing us this annoyed. we had gone maybe a mile through the cemetery (we got lost, because of course we did) and the gate was locked. we looked for another way out but all the gates had been locked except the one we entered through. we eventually settled on walking a bit further to lay our blankets down and eat the food right there in the cemetery.
i observed a women who had come close enough that we could see her, just a small figure, on top of a hill. she had been there the whole time we were there, almost two hours by the time we finished eating and talking, and she would move around a certain area, standing at strange points, sitting with a computer at moments. i wondered if she was a writer and had come here for inspiration, or who it was she was mourning for so long. we left before i had decided any of that.