A Thing I Learned During Quarantine

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“All this social isolation is really getting to me,” I murmured to myself as I lint-rolled my yoga pants and attempted to pluck a stray eyebrow hair. I have not been isolating that hard (or at all) during the entire COVID-19 pandemonium. If that fact upsets you, kindly go place your hand on a hot coiled stove top and direct your anger elsewhere.

I haven’t been actively isolating, but much of the world still is which means that I’m still working from home which means that I normally don’t talk or see other living humans during the day, which means my brain gets a bit frayed around the edges sometimes.

Sometimes, I gaze longingly at my cat and wish I could nap. And then, I realize I can nap, because my haphazard workstation is approximately a foot and a half from my very large, very welcoming bed. Sometimes I boil rice in the middle of the day, just because I can. Sometimes I put makeup on just to look more human, and sometimes I putter around in my thick, comfy socks for hours before brushing my teeth. Quarantine has not necessarily made me a better person, but it has made certain life things easier. I can do laundry in the middle of the afternoon. I can cook all my meals from home, instead of packing leftovers in Tupperware bins like a 3rd grader allergic to everything in his dreary…