The Lockdown Timewarp is a strange place to be, where we're trying to do everything, we should have the time to do it, but it feels like nothing gets done.
I started work early, didn’t really take lunch and still had emails to sort out after 6pm. I just… still didn’t manage to find the time. I know I was supposed to take a mandated break and go for a walk, or do a yoga class, or… something else according to the internet, but I didn’t. Then we put our son to bed , had some dinner , then attempted to start Tiger King and promptly fell asleep half way through episode one. .
It reminds me of that feeling I had on maternity leave where the days seemed short, but also long. But, like, times a million. And also in the sense that I'd heard of these people who write BOOKS on their maternity leave, but that I often returned home without anything I needed, because I could barely write a shopping list.
And it is dependent on people’s workloads. Obviously, many people have been left unemployed or had contracts cancelled, or freelance work stopped because of this crisis – so in many ways the ‘Agh where is the TIME!’ is very much a first-world problem humble brag. And of course for key workers, out there on the frontline they really don’t have any time, for far more valid reasons.
And the calls… the calls continue outside of work. Friends we’d usually only manage to meet up with four times a year after 75 Doodles, we’re now having daily houseparties with. The WhatsApp chats are off the chart, whether it’s friends all checking in on each other or local area/street/building WhatsApps seeing is anyone needs help or that ONE person in your phone who sends 84 coronavirus memes and videos to their whole phonebook daily .
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