Will we still be afraid of air and humans after vaccine?
Plus videos to be calm and not
Today, I found out that because I am over 50 I can expect to get my vaccine here in Minnesota by the end of spring. This coincides with today feeling like the start of Spring, with temperatures soaring to the sweltering mid-30s and snow melting a bit in the sunshine.
So one more season? No. I’m wise to that. I know that what happens next is that water freezes, making sidewalks deadly and then the blizzards return. Prince wrote “Sometimes it Snows in April” not as a crazy fantasy but just a simple factual statement about the weather. I know, as comedian Guy Branum told me, that spring in Minnesota takes place over five non-consecutive days in May.
Here’s the thing, though: how is life different after I’m vaccinated? Is it an instant kissing party all over the world? Probably not. Could things get worse? Doubt it but who knows. What about the new variants?
I think even after the new vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna or Astra-Zeneca or Johnson & Johnson or Nerf get into my system, I will continue to fear AIR. Maybe for a while, maybe forever. I think that’s the permanent psychological damage of all this.
I feel like covid is a gang of robbers who trashed our house and beat the shit out of us. Now, they’re doing what’s called the Minnesota Goodbye, where they linger in the doorway for an indeterminate length of time before, hopefully, presumably, they leave. We can see over their shoulders (bound as we are in extension cords and gagged at the bottom of the stairs) some of the damage they’ve done and what they’ve taken. But we’re going to be trying to clean this place up for a long time.
Book club? How about a CLUB BOOK? Join me on Internet for this event on March 10.
We’ll be talking about my book, you see. I wrote a book.
THANKS, STUDY. I had no idea.
I read about this in the latest issue of the magazine No Doy.
Chill Room is a long list of very long videos with which you can chill. The “room” in the title could refer to whichever room you’re in whilst enjoying said videos.
There’s stuff like calming river sounds, ocean waves, and quite a bit of snowfall. A lot of them eight hours long, some ten hours long.
Here’s a fun challenge. I’ll put in one of the videos and you can see how long you can let it play before sending your attention off somewhere else. One minute? Two? Ten hours? Tell me your score!
I did poorly! But I’m glad it’s here.
1:26 before the timer went off and I had to pull the chicken fries and tater tots out of the oven. But TBH I was getting antsy before then.
I did fine until about 1:25:45, when the moon suddenly jumped to the right and I panicked because I assumed some demon, probably Chernabog, pushed it.