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Pandemic journal: Day 42

Pandemic pastimes: bread-baking, mask-making, symptom paranoia.

Pandemic brain, tiredness, lack of focus.

I tried a different way of balancing my time with my kid, and my time as myself. It wasn't great.

Therapy homework: A list of what makes me feel cared-for or loved.

The pandemic diet: guilt, self-care, frustration, exhaustion, uncertainty, rage, and reading the news.

There's a metaphor here about mending and friendships, if you try.

It's getting harder to brain. And we're settling into a kind of routine, which is good and bad.