Daily To Do List: Quarantine Edition

• get out of bed

• peer through the window-shade slats to see what sort of day they’ve got going on ‘outside’

• ponder the way life has changed recently—to keep myself humble

• make a list of ‘who are my friends, zoom-wise’

• make a list of ‘who are my friends, facetime-wise’

• make a subset list called, ‘for which of my friends am I also their friend’

• have a look in the fridge

• take a look in the fridge

• get a look into the fridge

• ponder the contents of the fridge

• give the fridge a funny look

• laugh out loud for a while at the funny look, paying close attention to whether the laughing turns into crying

• ponder if there's a more intuitive organization for the menu of each nearby take-out restaurant

• ponder if there's a more intuitive organization for society

• ponder my innards, paying close attention to symptoms

• invite anyone on ‘who are my friends, zoom-wise’ or ‘who are my friends, facetime-wise’ to have an afternoon virtual chin-bump

• clean off my computer camera

• Update ‘for which of my friends am I also their friend’ by removing anyone who said ‘no’ to the afternoon virtual chin-bump

• make a soap carving of one of my flat mates to instill jealousy in the other

• hope my flat-mate power dynamics get rebalanced through the soap carving

• ponder a few other things that could be fun to ponder

• practice my overall ‘pondering look’

• ponder if my pondering look seems smart and sophisticated, paying close attention to which of my hats helps me ponder the best

• decide about a few more things to ponder for tomorrow

• get back into bed