Truth Bum in Book Seven: Reconstruction 2020

I’ll admit… I’m starting to get punchy. Not so much just from the “stay at home” stuff, actually. If it was “stay home” and that was it… I’d be okay, honestly. But the “stay home” while “continue working in a public service sector” actually increases my punchiness. Because it feels like… I’m trying to help maintain society, keep the rules in place, and maintain order… while being almost entirely cut off from it. Like a man required to program a complex computer program but never allowed to see what the finished product looks like.

I want to go to a bar.
Try to flirt with a woman.
Discover if I have any shot at all in maybe having a romantic or physical fling with someone.
I want to visit friends and family.

I know. Everybody is feeling this in some way right now. I’m not special or unique. But Canada is almost assuredly canceled. AnimeIowa is most likely to be canceled. The trip to Japan was canceled by agreement. Everything OTHER THAN WORK has been wiped off the calendar. And so I have that weight there now. Fun things gone. Work things remain. Stay at home. Do your work. Repeat until madness sets in.