dear diary,
the days are boring. so one after the other. I wake up, I know what's gonna happen, I do it, and I go back to bed. I get up, do school, make awkward pleasant conversation with my grandparents at lunch, flop into bed, and do the mandatory assignments the day before they're due. my day looks like:
8:00- get up
8:20-8:30- assembly
9:00-9:40- first class
9:50-10:30- second class
10:40-11:20- third class
11:20-12:30- break
12:30-1:10- last class
1:30- lunch
and then that's it! that's my whole day. and the teachers are a bore, I fucking swear. this is NOT IT. everyone I know fucking hates this, and to think we were ecstatic on March 13th!
Something I find really disappointing is the workload. Teachers seem to take any disruption in regular schedule and turn it into an opportunity to assign more work. Even during a fucking pandemic, it's all, "We care about your mental health during these uncertain times, don't stress! Here's 14 questions and a letter to do." Like fucking stop. They don't know if someone in my family is sick, if I have to work because my parents got laid off, if I'm just struggling, or anything that'd going on. and yet they choose to assign tons of work. bullshit.
the most eventful thing I did today was write a letter to a healthcare worker, take a nap, and browse tiktok for hours. Corona time everyone.
I have a lot to do. am I doing it? no. do I plan to be proactive and do it before it's due? no. Will I half-ass it the night before it's due? yeah!
WORLD NEWS
some Canadian provinces are voting on re-opening schools this week. I don't think we're ready to open. in my opinion, the only reason they're voting is because Quebec opened up some schools, and they have the worst rates (which I think was a stupid decision, to open). But we're still in a state of emergency until June, so I think its just a formality.
world leaders, especially Canadians, have been leaving their homes!! it's insane. they tell us "stay home!" then they go to their cottages for Easter weekend. It's madness, and the press eats it up.
I should've mentioned this earlier, but people in are protesting the lockdown! They're rallying in the streets, well over the 5 person max limit, complaining that they aren't allowed outside. You can smell the privilege when people are complaining that they don't like their hair in the middle of a global pandemic. they're insane to me. People who go are getting sick and dying, and they think it's a matter of freedom, not a global health emergency or anything.
murder hornets have come to North America. Giant fucking hornets have come over here to fuck everything up some more. They're invasive and massive. They sting through a beekeeping suits, and they kill the bees we need, like honeybees. 2020 is a game of Jumanji, and I'm sick of playing. This has got to be a fucking nightmare.
I just pray everything gets better soon. I'm scared. My world feels like it's crumbling. Haven't seen my friends, haven't been in school, people are dying, there's a new crazy bad thing every month. I thought my life was crazy already, as a gen z, growing up around news of school shootings, terrorist attacks, other horrible acts around the world (which we hear about everyday with access to the internet), but this is a whole new breed.
I want everything to be okay. But it's not.
Sincerely,
Grindy
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I'm gonna put some music suggestions at the top of every new entry, I think. You can know me a little better, and when my kids look back, they can hear what we used to listen to. They won't really be related to the entries (mostly), so you don't have to listen. It's also random asf. Just some favs. (I'm also going to go back and do this for some earlier entries) 🥰❤
Fun fact: I had a huge obsession with Melanie Martinez in the fourth grade. I knew all of her songs on the album Crybaby, and I haven't forgotten them! (she still slaps tho)
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Anyways, ily wash your hands, stay safe, and STAY HOME.
(EDIT: my best friend Ika said she'd make a cover for this book for me! she's literally the best, I'd perish without her. When I force her to make a Wattpad acc, I'll tag her. Thanks, Ika!!)
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Corona Diaries
Não Ficçãohi. my name is Grindy. I'm a teen living in quarantine during the pandemic. I'm creating this diary to help me keep track of the days and stop them from rolling into one another. Also to show the next generation, document everything. started 4/20/20...
