The biodiversity in my apartment has taken a hit lately. One of the few plants that I haven’t managed to kill are these Haworthia succulents.
The biodiversity in my apartment has taken a hit lately. One of the few plants that I haven’t managed to kill are these Haworthia succulents.
New artwork is sprouting across the District lately, including here in Ivy City.
Drag Race has been my favorite TV show for over a decade and marked important parts of my life so far.
Face masks are not the only thing junking up the neighborhood lately — COVID-19 physical distancing drastically increased the number of abandoned rental scooters and bikes littering the area.
The District’s stay-home order has done more than normalize telecommuting and transform buying cleaning supplies into a scavenger hunt. It also creates an incentive for me to frequent different businesses in Northeast D.C. for pickup and delivery.
My new favorite spots are typically within a 45 minute one-way walk from my apartment. This is the ideal distance for weekday dog walks before and after work. (This is also coincidentally the maximum safe distance from apartment toilet since most places are closed).
After about 2 months, the coronavirus restrictions still do not feel normal, but I’m getting used to things.
In the Netflix movie Bird Box, people walk outside with blindfolds because of the threat of invisible supernatural creatures that drive people to commit suicide. We find out quickly that some mentally disturbed individuals are immune from the creatures. These characters run around killing people by forcing them to take off their eye-coverings.
This means that Sandra Bullock spends two hours dodging invisible creatures and serial killers.
Although there aren’t serial killers stalking my neighborhood yet, things have taken on a Bird Box-like feel lately.
The past month of working from was less disruptive and far more mundane than I expected.
I used to work from home full-time at Thomson Reuters, so I am used to the early morning dog walks and days spent in front of the monitor. The time that I save commuting is mostly lost to an increased number of webinars and emails, but the fridge access is worth it.
The Coronavirus spread rapidly across the country last week, so my firm announces Friday that we can work from home starting Monday.
I grab my equipment from the office over the weekend and start the “social distancing” experiment along with most of the city on Monday morning. Working from home reminds me of my prior gigs, but there are major differences this time, including unusually heavy email traffic and the inability to work from coffee shops.
However Monday turns out to have more than emails and bored dogs in store for me…
I recently moved out of Chinatown.
The Pros: Chinatown was a good neighborhood to start my post-graduation life in Washington D.C., and there were many appealing things about the area:
The Cons: Chinatown lost its charm pretty quickly. Here’s what I discovered: