Hi readers, how have you been holding up? I hope everyone out there is able to stay healthy and that any quarantines, work-from-home measures, or shelter-in-place orders aren’t getting you down too much. In Minnesota, today marks the first day of a couple of weeks of enforced shelter-in-place, with leeway for necessary activities like going to the pharmacy or shopping for groceries. Restaurants with delivery or drive-through options are also operating. People are still allowed to “be in nature,” meaning we can walk outside and in local parks, which my husband and I have taken advantage of a few times already since we’re both now working from home. As much as I like being able to roll out of bed and log in to do my job, though, the social isolation and relative lack of bodily movement required of sitting at my kitchen table and tapping away at my laptop definitely has its downsides. Thank goodness for Nintendo and Animal Crossing, as I still get a chance to interact with my friends that way.
You’d think this would be a great time to catch up on some anime, and for many folks I think that this is the case. The anime club I attend has gone online-only for the time being (thank goodness for streaming apps!), so I’ve gotten a little bit through that venue. I was all ready to put together a schedule and indulge, but as you might have guessed from the lack of updates here, I ran into some (emotional) road blocks that made it difficult to want to do anything, much less consume anime and talk about it.