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[27%] Fucking parents
Mar. 19th, 2021 12:19 amPun intended. Damn it. All my delicate, bespoke, artisanally-created, unfair-but-working covid arrangements are lying in smithereens because BOTH my non-marital partners have KIDS WHO ARE GOING BACK TO SCHOOL oh my god. So much for that.
I don't fault either of them, but I'm plenty angry with the world. All that planning, all the endless difficult conversations with their associated damage to friendships, were intended to create a structure that would hold through spring. But no. My calendar is now upsettingly covered in post-its just to track what's going on with kids, travel, vaccines. And in short: April is going to suck after the 3rd, and then much later there's one magical weekend that the stars align and I get to see everyone in approximately the way I have been, and then May is going to be bleak indefinitely until enough shots have happened to the right people.
(At least the bug and I are on the same page about allowing 1:1 unmasked contact between two vaccinated people. Vaccines won't give me Madonna concerts or group acro classes but they will let me hug some of my friends, and be physical with partners.)
I tried so hard to hold it together, but nothing can stand against children. Their cultural primacy gives them the destructive force of any number of trains jumping tracks, or sharks, or both. You got me good this time, kids, yes you did.
I don't fault either of them, but I'm plenty angry with the world. All that planning, all the endless difficult conversations with their associated damage to friendships, were intended to create a structure that would hold through spring. But no. My calendar is now upsettingly covered in post-its just to track what's going on with kids, travel, vaccines. And in short: April is going to suck after the 3rd, and then much later there's one magical weekend that the stars align and I get to see everyone in approximately the way I have been, and then May is going to be bleak indefinitely until enough shots have happened to the right people.
(At least the bug and I are on the same page about allowing 1:1 unmasked contact between two vaccinated people. Vaccines won't give me Madonna concerts or group acro classes but they will let me hug some of my friends, and be physical with partners.)
I tried so hard to hold it together, but nothing can stand against children. Their cultural primacy gives them the destructive force of any number of trains jumping tracks, or sharks, or both. You got me good this time, kids, yes you did.
