Journal 3

I truly hope that after this month of quarantine, things start to turn around and get better. I am really not sure how much longer I can take 12 hours of “family time” and 3 games or cornhole a day. In addition, school is so much easier when you are physically there, not to mention it is an excuse to leave the house. I am a pretty busy person, and I think that I have spent more time at my house these past couple weeks than I have for the entire past year, which is pretty crazy.

Something that I watched earlier this week and what NASCAR is doing to keep their fan into NASCAR since their season has been postponed is to do eNASCAR which is virtual simulation races. NASCAR teamed up with a simulation racing game called iRacing and this game is a simulation of real racing it has real damage it can simulate drafter and dirty air it simulates tire wear and if you run out of gas so the game makes it feel as close to real-life racing as it can.

I have been doing a lot of sitting alone thinking I could miss my senior year of fall sports and that's all that has been on my mind and it makes me sad to think about but at the same time if we all aren’t careful as a country or state even we could be stuck in this pandemic a lot longer than anyone wants because i'm pretty sure everyone wants to go and do stuff not be stuck at home all day doing nothing.

I thought to work from home would be better because I don’t have to get up early and leave for school, but it is harder because I just want to rush through my work so I can watch a video or not do work instead of taking my time on it like doing this work where I can not think of five hundred words to write. I write as much as I can instead of thinking about it and doing the actual assignment. I may be getting less work but it takes longer to do than if I got it at school because I get distracted watching videos, unlike at school at home I find I will not do the work or it will not be the best quality work I can do.

Now I don’t know about you, but if I had a really sore throat and I felt like I needed to get it checked out, I would drive to urgent care, not orthopedics. Yesterday my mom informed me that JUST NOW, May 14th, urgent care is going under TRAINING to swab people. May 14th??? That’s too late. This is why I feel we weren’t prepared enough. There was no team of medical professionals at urgent care, ready to go.

This Saturday my washing machine broke; my Dad’s self diagnosis was that the drain was broken. So yesterday I had to go with my mom to the laundromat in Yarmouth and help her carry giant bags of our clothes into the laundromat. After that my mom treated me to some Gifford's ice cream, fortunately there was a store right down the road. I ended up getting the flavor Black Raspberry. I’m also making an effort to perform in a workout video in the morning, not exactly sure how long this will last...

My mind is spiraling trying to figure out what to write about, but all I can think about is what will be next after this crisis is over. I wish this never happened or that the virus was contained on time before it affected the whole world. I hope everyone in our community stays healthy and is cautious about going to the stores. I’ve been literally crossing off the days that I haven't left home on my calendar. I’m nervous about the third quarter ending, and although we’ve been out of school for almost four weeks, I feel like I’ve lost time.

I love baseball. It's my favorite probably which is why I hate this because I would hate to miss the whole season. But then again I am lucky because I have my senior season at least. This time away from sports friends and school I have all so looked back and realized how much I love them and enjoy doing them which is always good to get perspective