Oh yeah, I'm trying to be more flexible too.
That's why the footprints are on the ceiling. I use it to stretch my legs further.
Our quarantine personas seem very similar XD
OH and if I may suggest, another thing that I’m trying to achieve these quarantining times is a shoulder roll. I can get my legs past my head but can’t quite roll lol.
Also omg Miss Not-So-Sidekick is fucking amazing? I’m obsessed. She’s a shrewd businesswoman, an unapologetic trash for drama AND she shoved popcorn up the Duke’s nose. I’ll get started on This Girl is a Little Wild tonight.
I never read Harry Potter (just saw the first movie and fell asleep in the second), and I'm still kind of baffled how this seemingly became our only cultural touchstone.
In hindsight I guess the signs were there all along - remember all those articles at the time like "My kids had never read a book, and now they've read 7"? XD
Hah, I also never read Harry Potter and I always get weird looks and comments every time I say this!
I think book culture will be fine—I’m actually seeing a lot of people reading and having discussions on it in my feed. I hope the independent bookstores make it—a lot of them are doing deliveries now, which is a relief. It feels like we’re slowly adapting to this.
I used to be a very diligent reader, but my habits have gotten terrible since I was doing my undergrad, and became even worse in grad school. I just feel like every time I read, it becomes work—like I feel like I can’t read anything for fun (which is why I read a lot of trash now?). Every book I read I tend to pick apart, which leads into me taking a loooooong time to finish anything, because I spend an unnecessary amount of time analyzing a chapter/section/page and then looking at how it’s constructed. And then annotating the page with random notes. It’s terrible; I just feel like I can’t enjoy it anymore. I want my fun back!
The sad thing is that my degrees are in Literature and then Poetry lol. Especially with poetry, where the biggest advice is to read a lot.
Staying at home has been great for trying to change my habits. It’s hard to turn off the switch that tells me to analyze everything, so I have to be very conscious as to not think that when I read.
I once worked with someone who called me a crazy conspiracy theorist after I told them something about North Korea, and I don't mean a conspiracy about North Korea.
What had happened was that this person wasn't even aware that there is a North and South Korea, so when I was talking about them as two distinct countries, to them it sounded like I was completely deranged.
Of course I tried to tell them that North Korea is in fact a real country and that they should look it up, but they just brushed it aside with a "You can't believe everything you read on the internet" or a "I don't want to read those weird websites you visit".
At that point I was too flabbergasted to continue with the conversation and decided to go and return some video tapes.
How do these people exist, wtf? I bet you this is a person who doesn’t verify their sources when posting something on Facebook lol
kinda getting ahead of myself but it would be pretty sad to leave my current job now since it is pretty fun. However, I do know that if things become worse that I would be on the chopping block pretty much straight away. 
