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A Day in the Lockdown

Photo Essay by Damien Jordan

​After nine months in quarantine, I’ve noticed a pattern. It changes oh-so-slightly with the weather, but for the most part it stays the same each day. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes I daydream about what it’ll be like after vaccinations. Seeing friends for the first time in a year, sharing hugs and hand holds and touch. Going out for lunch with the ones you love the most you haven’t been near for too long. Spending a normal day in school.
    Sometimes I worry, though, if any of us will ever really recover. We’ll still see it every day, in the flinches when someone reaches out a hand, uncovers their mouth. In the worried glances when someone gets too close.
    I guess we’ll learn to roll with the punches, if somehow we haven’t already.

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    It’ll all be okay. 
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Get out of bed. Check the clock to know what day it is and whether or not it's before noon.
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Say hi to Kate. She’s gotten used to your habits and waits for her head pats on the stairs.
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Waste some time. School is tiring, and the internet’s a nice escape.
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Play video games. Quite frankly the best part of your day. You’ve gotten a worrying amount of hours in over the past nine months, at least your world looks awesome, though.
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Clean the car. Shovel the driveway. It never ends.
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Brush your teeth. You want to get your braces off before you turn twenty, so you brush them twice, just in case.
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Go to class. You really hope it’s not a cameras on kind of day, it’s way too early to be perceived.
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Practice guitar. It’s not like you’ve had a lesson recently. On the bright side, you’re finally starting to forget the openings to all those Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.
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Go outside, breathe some fresh air for once. What are you, a vampire? - Mom
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Watch the world go by.
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    • Gr. 12s: Life after high school
    • Treating vaccine hesitancy
    • Virtual auditions
    • Pandemic projects
    • Promises for the new year
    • Romance during Covid
    • Yubo
    • Shop, shop, shop online
    • No masking style
    • The Small Business Struggle
    • PSP students online
    • Cancel culture conflict
    • Winter driving
    • School, Covid, Work, Repeat
    • A new scientific balance
    • Photo Essay: Winter is Coming
    • Photo Essay: Other Side of the Screen
    • Photo Essay: Day in the Lockdown
    • Photo Essay: Glebe during a pandemic
  • Radio Free Canterbury
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    • December 2020 Features >
      • Christmas spirit
      • The New Age of Teaching
      • The 4-Hour Sit
      • Covid Change & Challenges
      • Impact of Quarantine
      • Covid Closes Caf
      • Post-secondary in a Pandemic
      • PSP Winter Worries
      • Snow and Peace
      • Covid & Academic Motivation
      • The (art) show goes on
      • Cloaked Chords
      • The Gifting Dilemma
      • Screen Ed: Pathway or Obstruction?
      • A Covid Kinda Christmas
      • Video Games as Sport
      • StudCo still running
      • Competing through Covid
      • Pandemic Pets
      • The Lost Season
      • Self Care
    • November 2020 >
      • Amazing Race Canterbury
      • Halloween photo gallery
      • Photo essay: Grasping the Guitar
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