Aug 27, 2021
First visit to our uni after the long lockdown last year. Bikes have become reliable modes of transport around the metro. Hoping for better bike legislation here.
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First visit to our uni after the long lockdown last year. Bikes have become reliable modes of transport around the metro. Hoping for better bike legislation here.
I got my shot from an exhausted med student who told me they routinely had to stay past shift, because well, "whatever it takes, right?" He asked where I was going after all dressed up like that. I said nowhere man, this here's for me, for you, for this. Cheers to everyone else muddling through and sincere love to the many who could not. . . . #vaccine #johnsonandjohnson #oneanddone #washingtondc #dclife #pandemicfashion #coronadiaries #vaccinated #naptime (at Howard University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNa3xGpMCJg/?igshid=vvdvv08njnku
Hymer Museum (Bad Waldsee, Germany)
12 x Instax Mini
Shoutout to my balcony #coronadiaries #2020 (w: Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJeOVPGBZSd/?igshid=1d38nsazjqwfd
Super pupper. . . . . . . . #doggosofinstagram #doggosbeingdoggos #homevisit #mongrel #smileydog #coronadiaries #stayhome (at Gdansk, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA2W2qrqr8y/?igshid=e6on2ekoyhjo
In the historical record, when we see notes about the weather, a shopping list, records of births, marriages, and deaths—the mundane details of a past human life— they can jolt us out of our present moment, fire up our imaginations, and bring forth new meaning and perspective. When future beings look to the records of our lived experiences to help understand their own present, similarly mundane details are likely to become poignant testimony about our lived reality.
Consider the potential future significance of journals and diaries created in the present moment, while we live under quarantine during the global pandemic COVID-19.
We invite you to create your own written record of some aspect of your life during the COVID-19 pandemic. It can be as simple or elaborate as you want:
Note the weather from the window that you look out of every day. Keep track of your Zoom appointments and school work. Track your daily activities like workouts, books you are reading, or TV shows you are watching. Write out your grocery lists: What do you need? Was the toilet paper sold out? Like to draw? Make a sketch. Like to cut and glue? Make a scrapbook. Anything goes!
Read Andrea Krupp's full post about diaries and journals, find some inspiration from our collections, and download instructions on how to make your own pocket notebook here. If you choose to share some pages from your journal on social media, please tag us @librarycompany and #notetofutureself, we’d love to see what you do.
Image 1: Poor Will’s pocket almanack, for the year 1828. [Philadelphia]: Kimber & Sharpless, [1827] with manuscript notes of Mary Robinson Morton.
mage 2: Artist and LCP Conservator Andrea Krupp's notebooks and journals
The Streets Abandoned
Melbourne, 6 April 2020 - Lunchtime
Photography from Just How Your Face Looks...
back on tumblr bc distancing
i feel like i need to start keeping some kind of online diary, and while part of me wants it to be private the other part doesn’t fucking care bc tumblr has that rule of stays on tumblr.
so keep this shit to urself