Work, and watch some clients die (especially old, rude and stubborn ones).
iT iS noThinG, THe GoVernMent mAdE tHis uP.
Worked from home, luckily I have a large terrace and live in a very green and walkable neighborhood. There's a botanical garden across the street that shut down for the public, but since I go there for a jog nearly every morning, the guards let me in regardless. Had the whole thing to myself.
Watched a ton of Netflix, perfected my bread baking skills, and grew a big beard.
That's cool of the guards to do that. What was your favorite show to watch during the quarantine?
Taskmaster! Not on Netflix though, but definitely my favorite show. UK show where local comedians have to perform a series of tasks over a couple weeks and are then rated on stage based on their performance. Exceptionally silly and entertaining. There are a bunch of international adaptions as well now, I've binged all through UK, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Portugal, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately the US version is crap and got cancelled after one season. Some others I didn't really get into, like Denmark or Finland, but I might give it another try later.
I wasn’t allowed to work whilst I was applying for my green card, so not much changed for me at all.
I worked through that whole thing. Municipal transportation (thankfully skilled trade, not public-facing). Didn't get sick until 2023.
We did make a trip to France in 2021, when international flights opened in the lul before Delta. That was rad. First time in Paris and it was super quiet. It was a bit nerve wracking, as they still had testing requirements for returning travelers. We had to be extra cautious with masks while all the Parisians were running around with their masks on their arms. We also had to jump through a multitude of hoops to get our CDC cards entered into the French database, otherwise we had to get tested every three days.
Work. I worked. It was awesome.
Oh. STILL working remotely. Still awesome.
Learned to cook. I'm fortunate enough that my field remained busy enough for me to have job security throughout, and used the extra time to pick up a creative hobby
The creative hobby being cooking or did you get into something else?
Cooking, yeah
It suuuucked. Trying to drag my kids through their schoolwork. Anxiety about income. Anxiety about precautions. Cancelling plans, not seeing family. No fucking third spaces, not even second spaces.
I just worked from home. The main difference was when I was in pointless meetings that I didn't need to be in, I just played Animal Crossing.
I don't really feel nostalgic about it because it was so recent, but maybe I will once more time passes. It still kind of feels like yesterday right now.
Hell, it still feels like yesterday that I was in college, and that was 10 years ago. 😬
Nostalgic? It was awful.
That's how the question was worded.
Essential worker but not in the way you think, still had a lot of free time. We have a three year old now. Child of the Quarn born in December 2020.
Worked in the ER.
Everything was pretty much the same for me, I still had to go into work every day, I just ate a lot of takeout and my husband made me wear gloves everywhere even in the dead of summer which was pretty funny looking back. I had no pandemic downtime at all.
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