Quarantine Social Life

     These past couple of weeks have been difficult being stuck under a roof with family your stuck with. It’s a difficult situation everyone’s in now and even though I don’t need to see them a lot, it’s the only people I really have seen in person for awhile which sometimes stresses me out. I like quarantine for the most part and it gives me almost the whole day to myself and I get to decide what I do with my day. I feel like I can go on awhile longer like this because after all I still get to speak to people online and through video games. However, not being able to speak to anyone else in person has a strange effect on my social life. I feel normal but being social is normally something I am used to is being halted for now. 

   Even though I have been stuck only with my family, my cousins spent around half the quarantine with us which was a good change from the normal routine. However, we can’t do a lot of the same things we usually do when they come over like go out to the supermarket and but soda and candy and than come back to our house and play call of duty zombies until we’ve eaten it all. But now the store we go to is closed and we are out of batteries for our Xbox controllers and the nearest hardware store is towns over. We also go through the trails behind my house and in their yard on their dirt bikes and quad bikes. 

    They were some of the only other people really that I have seen in person. But quarantine or not it’s always fun to hang out with them. And in these difficult times human interaction is something limited and valuable. And even if you can’t see anyone in person, my favorite part of my day is talking to friends online as it gives me that little bit of sociability everyone needs every day.

Blog post #1

     Yesterday I kept to my normal after school routine of breakfast, protein shake, homework and reading, exercise, videogames, movie, and than sleep. I keep playing this one videogame sea of thieves, that has probably the most toxic community i’ve ever been part of. Everyone is always angry and yelling at their teammates and tanking everyone else just because they can. I might switch back to a more fast paced game without a lot of necessary online communication. Something I have found is crews without mics are a lot more peaceful and united as crews with mics. That’s interesting. But I’ve kept playing the game because when it comes to video games I like to play to win. In campaign games I reach 100% completion and unlock all the awards, achievements, and items. In shooter games and reach max level with all gun camouflages and costumes. I know video games aren’t that productive, but at least it’s something fun during these hard times.

Cujo Entry #1

    So far Cujo has been a very great book starting with a kid who thinks there’s a monster in his closet and is set very unsettlingly and eerily. Even though Iv’e just gotten into it I am already exited for the rest if the book and the dark wisdom it may have like many other Stephen King books. The book is set very visually and it’s very easy to make a picture in your head on where and how the book is taking place. So far he dog hasn’t been introduced yet but it wouldn’t be a Stephen King book if the main antagonist wasn’t introduced for the first half the book.

Intro to Independent Reading

“...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.” ― Stephen King, Cujo

      I chose to read Cujo because I really like Stephen King’s writing and I really liked reading pet cemetery and this book seemed very similar. Pet Cemetery is about a family who’s cat dies and they bury it in an ancient cursed burial site where the cat comes back to life but different. As if it saw death, anything that came out of that graveyard was hostile and feral. Cujo is about a friendly dog that gets bitten by a sick bat and gies feral and attacks people. This is a lesser known book of Stephen King’s but it’s still one I have heard of before and given my limited selection of books I chose this one. I’ve read a couple of Stephen King’s books and they were very good so I don’t have any doubts that this one will be good as well.