After all the initial panic, I’ll admit that one of my first thoughts on being mostly-entrapped at home for the foreseeable future was: Great! I can finally finish revising my thus-far-singular attempt at a full-length play!
I then proceeded to do just that…. for exactly one day. Since then I’ve only worked on it in brief and fleeting increments despite the fact that and I HAVE LITERALLY been putting this task off for a good THREE YEARS.
(Then again, in that three years I did manage to get a master’s degree, complete 2 internships, write a 300-page memoir draft, get my first real-person job, and start a theatre blog…)
Meanwhile, during the past week, instead of revising my play, I’ve:
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Gotten drunk (but only twice!)
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Done a questionable amount of YouTube yoga
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Written a frivolous short play for the Quarantine Bakeoff
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Gone to the pool/hot tub an average of twice a day
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Written a blog post
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Gone to Wendy’s (but only once!)
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Edited a draft of my friend’s novel
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Binge-watched at least one full season of Nip/Tuck (naturally, while playing copious amounts of Candy Crush)
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Started researching/drafting ANOTHER blog post, not even counting this one…
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Written a list of and some brainstorms for other potential blog posts, most of which I will not get to for MONTHS
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Checked social media incessantly
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Paced aimlessly in a somber, melancholic daze
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Read Things on the Internet (45 percent coronavirus related, 45 percent theatre related, 10 percent miscellanea)
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Finally started reading an actual book (this may or may not be because my eyes were getting sore from all the screen time…)
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Contemplated getting a dog
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Watched the news (that’s almost responsible, right?)
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Gone grocery shopping
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Eaten a whole container of Halo Top in one sitting (twice….)
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Briefly scrolled LinkedIn and Indeed without actually applying to anything or making serious plans to do so
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Met with some friends to brainstorm a guerilla online sketch show (I concede that this one may have been slightly idiotic, but we’ve suspended all in-person interaction for the time being)
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Gone to Dunkin Donuts (in my defense, it was free donut day…)
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Made a list of things I’ve done instead of revising my play
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Made a list of Suggested Showtunes for Strange Times (aka life-threatening worldwide epidemics…) and organized them into three sub-categories, possibly because putting things into categories gives me an illusory sense of control in a world in which most of us have no control at all. Also possibly because it was just a lot easier than, you know, ACTUALLY WRITING. Thus…
