Unlucky week number 13! This week started off normal, but slowly turned into a nightmare. On Monday I started to feel a little under the weather, but I assumed it was due to my jet lag and weekend hangover. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I got negative PCRs tests. Then, on Thursday I woke up feeling fine and… tested POSITIVE for COVID. Thursday turned into a shit storm of telling everyone I was positive, figuring out what to do for Christmas and feeling sorry for myself alone in a small room. Then on Friday, shit officially hit the fan. It felt like everyone in their mid twenties in NYC got COVID all at once. I reached out to everyone I knew in NYC and if they weren’t positive they were just hanging out with someone who was. It’s crazy and it feels like it all happened overnight, but I know it’s been brewing under the surface. My thought is that Covid was everywhere and it wasn’t recognized until people started to test to go home for the holidays. On the bright side, I had a lovely week quarantining with Lindsey and Ryan. We passed the time with board games, Star Wars, Succession and cooking up different cuisines for supper.
Beautiful Sunrise Start to the week
I should have known this week would turn to shit. We woke up to this insanely beautiful sunrise on Monday morning. Pink sky at night, sailor’s delight. Pink sky in morning, sailors take warning…
ROLLERCOASTER OF EMOTIONS
I didn’t go to Secret Santa this week, but I was gifted a cute little emotions octopus. It was the perfect gift to receive right before getting Covid because my emotions were all over the place. First I was negative for 3 days of testing, then positive, then everyone else got Covid. The poor little octopus has been flipped inside out too many times to count.
The Year SantaCon Cancelled Christmas
It feels like everyone I know in NYC has Covid this week. So much so that someone (@spencergrabel) wrote a little Christmas poem about it…
Twas two weeks before Christmas and all through the city
Young boys and girls were preparing to get a little dizzy
Picking up Santa onesies ordered from Amazon
Hoping to find someone who wanted to get it on
They drank and they pregamed in Murray hill and beyond
Joyous and happy because the covid was all gone
They took to the streets, through the tourist bars of Time Square
Rationalizing their daydrinking because of the holiday flare
They drank and they bar hopped pulling trig on the sidewalk
Terrorizing confused tourists on every midtown block
They passed out by sundown in front of half eaten Door Dash
Hoping to wake up without any hangover backlash
Sunday morning soon came and everybody felt woozy
Still through a flex wall someone remarked last night was a movie
The coughing soon started but was blamed on the drinking
Any plans for productivity were rapidly shrinking
They laid on their couches and watched Harry Potter
Glanced at emails coming in but just couldn’t be bothered
Then work came on Monday and it was all over
But the coughing remained and some thought “this might not be a hangover”
Tuesday brought rumors in group chats and conversations
I heard chads room mates girlfriend has that new covid mutation
What’s this about a pandemic? I thought that was only on the news
Plus we all got that vaccine, and most of us got two
Then Wednesday came and the flood gates swung open
Half were confirmed positive and the rest were running on ibuprofen
Now everyone’s scrambling to find a PCR
Looking for those covid test tents out of someone’s car
There’s no way I have it! I’m asymptomatic!
I can’t quarantine for Christmas, that would be tragic!
Now the twentysomethings can’t go home, there is no quick fix
And that, my friends, is how Santa Con canceled Christmas
fEEDING THE SOUL
Food got me through this week. We passed the time in quarantine by making a ton of delicious meals, charcuterie boards and snacks. Some of the highlights were ramen, avocado toast, spring rolls, bagels from scratch, and curry! I loved our little family dinners and spending a week getting creative in the kitchen.
Quarantine with the Best
I couldn’t have asked for better quarantine roomies! Luckily none of us had bad symptoms, so we spent the entire quarantine binge watching Star Wars, Succession and Pixar Shorts with little board game breaks.
