• Stood outside over six feet apart around my family friend’s fire pit for an evening
• Had a chat with my new suitemates over Zoom and my heart is so warm and full now!!!!!!!
• Finished watching The Hunger Games franchise over Zoom with my former suitemates
  • I think we are watching Diary of a Wimpy Kid next…
• Took a lot of long walks (staying six feet apart from people and wearing a mask)
• Had a picnic at a park that happened to be called Central Park in a little tiny town
  • Felt normal for a bit!
• Made many TikToks whilst intoxicated
  • Regretfully sent them to many people
• Listened to my friend play the harmonica over FaceTime
• Went to a Zoom birthday party where we watched Sharkboy and Lavagirl
• Went to Wawa with my dad and Acme
  • Saw my ex-boyfriend at Acme (oops)
• Zoomed my best friends from college for two hours
  • Felt serotonin for the first time in a while

Inside the home, Bwog enjoyed (?) time with family:

• Got absolutely obliterated by my mom and brother at Bananagrams
• Experienced the stress that is Zoom Pesach
• Had a bowl of cheese dumped on my head (we love little brothers)
• Ridiculed my parents for being neoliberals
• Had five glasses of wine and started monologuing to my parents for two hours about the social, economic, and historical factors that have affected life for the past 150 years, using primary sources that I had read for class
  • Very impressed and very appalled that that was what I wanted to talk about while drunk
• Talked through Catholic elementary school trauma with my sister while blasting Godspell
• Made a cocktail before family movie night and got way too tipsy to comprehend anything
  • Had to pretend to know what was going on

To kill time, Bwog appreciated food:

• Made an Alison Roman recipe for the first time
  • Review: that was some very nice pasta
• Ate delicious chocolate silk pie
• Baked a cake
• Made myself go through a blind baking challenge from The Great British Bake Off
  • The tart came out perfectly!!
• Spent an entire day baking
  • Loved every second of it

And to kill even more time, Bwog looked within:

• Watched my cat lick the side of my house
  • Thought about how unfair it is that I can’t be a cat
• Had a Rest in the Sun
• Sat in the car in various parking lots and wrote shitty poems
• Stalked my own Insta and finsta for hours… much to think about
• Read so much I got a headache
  • Was reminded of how I did that a ton when I was a kid but it didn’t hurt as much then
• Decided my final project for my first-year seminar will be a very soft and gay narrative about girls falling in love and jazz
  • Basically: fanfiction about my own life
• Went through all possible emotions
• Re-watched Ratatouille
  • Realized that I definitely had a crush on Colette when I was younger
• Sat outside during a thunderstorm
  • Felt Present

Bananagrams via Wikipedia