Written by Kitty Cheung, Peak Associate

8:16 AM

• Wake up to sound of CNN news blasts on coronavirus — thank you, family
• Resent choice to move back home for the summer
  • But . . . where else could you have gone?

8:30 AM

• Snooze alarm

8:35 AM

• Snooze alarm

8:40 AM

• SNOOZE. ALARM.

8:52 AM

• Breakfast: I B U P R O F E N (1)

9:00 AM

• Morning Zoom meeting! Create ambient noise for call via family argument outside bedroom door 🙂

9:34 AM

• Accept the intrusive micromanagement from your mother that you think you deserve
• Resist urge to look up Avatar: The Last Airbender memes 

11:57 AM

• Open Zoom session for 12 p.m. staff meeting
  • Feel good about your punctuality!
• Realize you need to download the newest version of Zoom, making you five minutes late 

1:03 PM

• Lunch: H E A R T Y    C U P   R A M E N (1)

1:14 PM

• Resume meeting; forget to mute yourself. 

1:15 PM

• Receive Slack message from boss: “just looping you in . . . the sound of your noodle slurping is disturbing”

3:41 PM

• Early Dinner: H U M I L I A T I O N (and reheated leftovers)
• Browse Avatar: The Last Airbender memes on Reddit 
• Make catty, passive-aggressive comments to your gamer sister
  • What you SAY: something polite about “lowering noise levels”
  • What you MEAN: “Self-isolation but for your voice. shut up”
• For how many sedentary hours have I stared into darkness? Who will I become?
• Think fondly about DIY craft and fashion YouTubers from your missing youth

5:00 PM

• Work day done! Digital burnout just beginning 🙂
• Maybe other things happened after this
  • But they are not important

Law of capitalist hamster wheel: your work day is the only day in the life that matters.