shadowkat | Day #88 of Self-Isolation

I swear if I get COVID-19 it will be from doing laundry. Highly stressful thing doing laundry. Requires going up and down multiple times in an elevator, and dealing with others, some wearing masks, some not - and making sure you get machines. I was rather annoyed with one young man - bearded, in his twenties, no mask, who snuck in and took one of the machines. But I was able to make it work and able to snag all three dryers. Then of course one of the machines seemed to be functioning oddly - so my clothes came out wetter than usual - which meant they took much longer to dry. Oh, and two of the people doing laundry felt the need to camp out down there. One to fold all his clothes on the table, the other playing on her phone until I got mine out of the dryers. While the guy without the mask came down again, lurked in the background then drifted away.

Living in an apartment complex with a bunch of strangers in a huge city during a pandemic poses all sorts of interesting challenges.

While I was doing laundry, courtesy of DW correspondence list - I managed to watch Staged on Daily Motion. I can't give you the link - since I got it from someone else, and I'm not certain they want me giving it out to everyone else. Just finished all six episodes - it's not very long. It's basically about a bunch of people trying to rehearse and conceptualize staging of the Pirandella Play Six Characters in Search of an Author during a pandemic or via Zoom. And as the Guardian Review kind of points out is very meta on the whole acting, staging, planning process. Stars include Tennant, his wife, Sheen, his wife, Simon, his sister, Adrian Lister, Samuel L Jackson, Dame Judi Dench and someone else.

I found it hilarious in places - partly because I know a lot about theater and the process. And I knew all the references - Ulysses, Six Characters in Search of an Author, the Inner Voice, and the Shakespeare bits. And I hate Zoom - so the jokes targeting Zoom - I felt to be spot on. Video chatting doesn't work for me. My immediate family doesn't engage in it - we text, and talk to each other on the phone. My church, on the other hand, is addicted to it. Work does Microsoft Teams - which is kind of Zoom with a business application.

For example? Judie Dench Zoom Bombs a conversation between Tennant and Sheen. (Zoom Bombing, means popping in unannounced into someone else's Zoom meeting.) Both are agog.

Anyhow it made me laugh, so thank you to those who made it possible for me to watch it today. It's not great, but it is entertaining and funny in places, and an good representation of how crazy and surreal this experience has been for everyone. Also, it does a decent job of depicting the problematic nature of ego and vanity.

I was feeling sorry for myself and it kind of helped to watch these poor bored British actors (by way of Scotland and Wales, and other areas in Britain) attempting to rehearse a play on Zoom and failing miserably at it.

Other things I've managed to do? Outside of ignoring the news. Yes, I decided to take a break from the news. I slept in late - got up around 9. And after making and eating breakfast, I made banana nut muffins with "Breads By ANNA - Banana Bread/Muffin mix" - it has no sugar and is made with non-grain flours. So all of the sugar in the muffins is basically the bananas. About 24, which should last about three weeks, give or take.

And I made up the bed up clean. Attempted to clean the tub - it has a red patch in the middle that seems to be wearing through the tile. I don't know what to do about it. I can't really do anything at the moment - I'm in the middle of a pandemic. Also, it's not really a huge problem, just unsightly.
I think it's the shower head - it puts all the water in one place - but I'm not positive.

Chose not to wander about Greenwood Cemetery today - first day without a sinus headche since last weekend. It's very nice not to feel wobbly. Why push my luck? And I decided to forgo the diuretic which was making me feel worse instead of better. I do feel better today, outside of the laundry stress.

I'm tired of the stress and worrying about stuff or pushing it to one side to worry over later. (Such as the red spot in the middle of my tub that I can't get rid of.) I just want a break from it. Sometimes I wish I could hop into a car and drive into the mountains, and stay there.

So, I'm leaving you with a picture of mountains taken two years ago, around the beginning of September in Seattle Washington's Mount Rainer National Park. Kind of wish I was there now.