How am I doing? Well looking objectively at the past couple weeks of my life you could say I’m doing fine. To sum up my days, it’s been a blur of the mundane; waking up, procrastinating doing homework, procrastinating doing chores, laughing with my siblings, being annoyed by my siblings, and after all that still somehow finding the time to play a concerning amount of Just Dance. Truly an appalling amount of Just Dance; my arms haven’t stopped being sore for two weeks straight.
I’ve done some pretty random things to escape the omnipresent threat of boredom. Let’s see, I finally learned how to properly throw a football–and watch out Mahomes because your girl can throw. I also learned I get extremely rough when playing football; turns out I’m not a pacifist. What else…well I’ve spent hours researching new shows to watch, debating which one I should invest my time in; yes, I now see the irony in that. Last week, I started binge-watching a show on Netflix that I thought was going to be great but scarred me in the season finale with things I will never unsee. More, you ask? Well, I’ve read four books since being home. And none of them were good. I learned that one of my sisters is psychotic–in a kind of adorable, harmless psycho way–but still, she needs help. More Just Dance. And oh yeah I watch the news, and read news articles, and have still yet to grasp how insane this whole thing is.
My life this past month has been simple; normal; mundane. And through the mundane, menial activities I fill my day with, it’s hard to remember that what’s going on in the world right now is the exact opposite. My simple world is in a very precarious position. Life, as we know it will forever be changed by this pandemic. Doctors, scientists, and world leaders are in uncharted waters right now, and yet I feel safe inside my bubble of humdrum. It’s crazy to me that this moment in time will be recorded in the history books with death counts and infamy, and at the same time, I’m kicking my brother’s ass at Just Dance in our living room.
So how am I doing? Yes, I get stir crazy, bored, and unmotivated–but I’m fine. I’m healthy and so is my family. And no matter how tired I get of the mundane, I will never stop being grateful for it.
English 110 Spring 2020 10:10-11:00 
So I’m gonna start out with how much I loved this, mainly because of Just Dance. I actually laughed when you talked about your arms being sore, because I literally spent 5 hours playing Wii Tennis the other day, and couldn’t pick up my arms for the next few days because they were so sore. I also really liked the way you wrote this, it’s really casual and friendly, but also really engaging at the same time. For netflix shows, I would recommend Tiger King, All American, and Money Heist, all 10/10. I also really like how you mentioned that you were actually doing productive and mindful things like reading and going outside. After weeks of laying in my bed on Tik Tok, I realized that I could be doing so many other things rather than watching random cats fall off of stuff, or couples posting cringey videos about their relationships. I also related to when you mentioned living in a bubble, because that’s truly how it feels. My next door neighbor got corona and has been in the hospital for 12 days now, finally waking up after being in a medically induced coma. It’s just crazy to me how someone living not even 20 feet apart from me has been affected by it, yet I still can’t wrap my head about what how corona is really impacting our world. Nonetheless, I loved the last paragraph because I feel like this pandemic has made us all realize how we can’t take mundane for granted. :))
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First of all, beyond any of the messages you gave in this piece, I love the vocabulary you used like “omnipresent threat of boredom” and “blur of the mundane.” I love the way you added a sense of character in this as well like “your girl can throw” and not being a pacifist. As for the rest of it I could not relate more. I have revamped all of my wii games and have been kicking major sibling ass in mario kart and such. I too have found new… lets just say interesting? qualities in my siblings which I probaly could have been better left unknown. I guess ill just leavt you with this: i hope you keep staying healthy and sane and i hope you absolutely keep kicking ass in just dance because roll hens 🙂
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What first drew me to your blog post was you picture because WOW, I miss just dance. I have been playing hours of Wii party and MarioKart, and still trying to figure out why I ever stopped playing Wii–now time to whip out the collection of Just Dance games. I can relate to the sibling thing. I knew my siblings had some major issues, but I do not remember living with everyone in the house as being this…eye opening. I love your last sentence because as boring as this can be for people our age who went from living it up at the best college to being stuck inside, as long as we are safe and healthy, we should be very grateful for that.
-Elizabeth Pohle
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