Oatmeal

Lichen. The right yellow.

Spring

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Everything feels little. Lichen on rocks by the sea.

Behind every flailing Magikarp is a mighty, terrifying Gyarados.

Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak.

Generally speaking I’m pretty anti-social and work from home, so the bulk of my normal IRL social contact comes from pre-k drop-off and pickup, the occasional errand, and trips to the gym. I guess I’m going truly digital native and all in on the family-man thing.

Now that school are closed for at least 2 weeks, this weekend was a dry-run for the days to come:

Beside sneaking some work in whenever possible, I started a new project, ran around in the woods (far from other people) and caught a bunch of Pokemon in Pokemon Go with the kiddo, watched Frozen 2 (3 times!?), read many children’s books, listened to, or overheard many children’s podcasts, cleaned and cooked…a lot.

Covid-cooking so far:

• Vegan waffles
• Flat bread and red curry
• Vegan chocolate chip cookies
• Miso soup
• Dozens of bowls of oatmeal (we really like oatmeal)
• 1 other meal that I’ve completely forgotten

Wash your hands and take care of each other!

Quarantzine seeks to document this moment — a collection of responses to history as it happens, as well as a collection of resources to help us through.

Please share, contribute, and let me know if you’d like to help organize or curate the first issue of the zine!

I was stranded in England in April 2010 because a volcanic irruption in Iceland. I contributed to a magazine to commemorate the moment — all proceeds went to a cause.

Anyone want to contribute to a covid-19zine?

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