#covidlife

[gshubin]

I came across this picture from April 2020 in my files that I had forgotten about, and I remembered how strange it was to drive around Portland at the time with almost no people or traffic on the streets.   . #45thphoto #cityscape #oregon #portland #portlandoregon #city #cityphotography #travel #street #flattenthecurve #emptystreets #emptystreet #shelterathome #covidlife #pandemic #urban #pnw #2020 #isolation (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9ruVOS16b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[underpantsandoverbites]

I slept for 12 hours last night (possibly a new record!) and have been taking it super easy. Feeling a little better every day. More updates soon 💕🐮

[jaxwrites]

for a year and a half

i’ve been so out of touch

i’ve been trapped and alone

it’s been so goddamn much

for a year and a half

i’ve been locked in my Box

with nothing but work

and some cute fuzzy socks

for a year and a half

i’ve left bed when i liked

worked when i could

and i’ve stayed up all night

tomorrow that’s over

i’ve landed a job

i’ll get up at six

and i’ll try not to sob

tomorrow that’s over

i’ll make some new friends

i guess they’re coworkers

this may be the end

tonight it’s so rainy

and i am so tired

i don’t want to work

i dont want to be fired

for the rest of my life

i’ll be working i guess

i just went to college

so i can work at a desk

[poetry-anotherway-tosay-iloveyou]

Virtual Reality

I go outside like once a week

So if you ask me a while from now “how were your twenties”

All I can tell is that right now

I’m living my life almost exclusively online

I’m living my life through computer screens and instead of talking I’m typing

What can I say it’s going fine

I’m living, I’m living my life virtually but at least in a couple of years I’ll have a degree

Then what I’m free?

I’ve gotten really good at sending emails and tweets

My eyes are kind of sore and I’m squinting in the light, I spent too long reading the lecture notes online

I’m wearing blue light glasses more than the ones I’ve been prescribed

I’m living through computer screens and honestly, virtually feels more real than reality

My bodies just a place to sit my voice is just words on a document

Can anyone hear me, oh wait I’m on mute, I guess that’s fine I’ll have to double check my settings next time

I’m typing more than I speak

When a friend calls me to talk about something other than history I swear it takes me to ecstasy, it’s the sweetest kind, of intimacy, when you talk to me

I’ll say it’s fine at least I’ve got digital literacy, life hasn’t changed that much for me, I’ve been doing this since I was 17 got an extra year to learn without fear

Now it’s mask up, log in, type your answer in a box, no one sees you unless it’s from the shoulder up

I’m my cameras favourite subject because there’s not a whole lot else to photograph but I don’t see me, just a girl in the most general sense

I’m taking notes physically, just to escape real life in reality

I’ve got outfits in my closet I’m yet to wear, I’m dressing up to go nowhere, my biggest event is my own videos

I used to sleep through my alarm but now i don’t even set it, if I have to I can have breakfast at my desk and brush my hair off screen

Just so long as I turn on my mic when it’s my turn to speak

I’d like to go out for a while, just to feel the sun on my face and hope for a smile but 5k isn’t that far to wander and I’ve already been here and there and down yonder

I’m living life through computer screens and honestly, virtually feels more real than reality

I’ve got an endless list of things I’d like to do and a shelf full of books I’ve never read

You’d think I’d have time but the commute across my room is the biggest one yet

I’m just waiting for the controversy of the identity of young people like me, who are stuck behind a hundred screens, and the only footprints they leave are digitally

I’ve got an empty travel journal and I’d like to escape into reality would somebody please come with me?

And I’m weondering if a VR headset would make me less restless while I wait

And I’m wondering why this time feels so much harder I guess after a while you get kind of tired

Time isn’t real and the days are all one

I wish that I could still find this fun but the truth is I’m missing things I’ve never done

I’m feeling kind of lonely but reaching out is hard

I’m limited I don’t really have a choice

I’m living through computer screens and honestly, virtually feels more real than reality

I’m at that funny point in life and history, where much too much and nothing is happening

I promise I’ll remember my twenties

Saved, catalogued, labeled and named

In a memory that’s not mine

It’s all going to the cloud until a more convenient time

Maybe I’ll hang out in reality until I have to go back to real life, behind my computer screen

- V

[nicolarrr]

Just wanna go dancin’ 💃🏻

[erlaci]

Ööö...na. Nem kell otthon maradni, de az nem azt jelenti, hogy nyomorogni meg vergődni kell. Ez ennyire nem egyértelmű?

[swearingen]

COVID-19 PANIC

[erisis]

The final leg of our DL Noho Pride Socially Distanced March yesterday! The normal route ends at The Three County Fairgrounds, but as there’s no Rally this year, we marched the route in reverse and ended our Pandemic Year Pride Stroll with ice cream at Herrell’s!!! Along the route I explained to people why we were doing this. And really there’s a lot of reasons. But one of the big reasons I shared with them, I’ll share with you. Noho Pride is one of the older Prides in the country. And so we marched last year, and again this year so that it can be truthfully said that Queers have marched every year since Northampton Pride began. #pride #lgbtq #queer #bisexual #lesbian #gay #trans #transwoman #nonbinary #transmasculine #transgender #pridemarch #nohopride #nohopride2021 #northamptonpride #pride🌈 #covidlife #podlife #queers #queerhistory #gayhistory #visibility #internationalworkersday (at Downtown Northampton / Northampton Mass) https://www.instagram.com/p/COXxNvrHdJ-/?igshid=1buwu8ja249xb