Yesterday was bleak and dreary, a perfect day to take a walk. That’s how you have to think, go out when other people won’t be going out to minimize your contact. There was even some drizzle but with my cap and hood on I didn’t feel it. I walked down the median of Mosholu Parkway and then into Bronx Park. I saw other people but was always able to keep away from them except for two kids that decided that the nature path was a great place to race their bicycles. One almost hit me, it was downhill, and he wasn’t in full control. I didn’t get mad, having bad judgment goes with being 13 years old. There were too many people without masks or carrying their masks. They were passing me, so they obviously weren’t alone. I don’t get what the big deal is. I kept my mask on till I got home. It was no great hardship. I didn’t even think about it.
This was my first real exercise in a while even though I walked only 2.7 miles, to the Bronx River and back. It’s my nature walk. I got to see trees and flowers, birds, and squirrels. Even more exciting I got pizza! There’s a cool bridge that goes over the railroad tracks that I can take home. I decided to do that and checked if there was pizza nearby. There was, just 0.1 miles away. I had two pepperoni slices. I ate them when I got home. I didn’t recognize the language the guy taking my order used when speaking to the only other customer. My guess is that it’s Albanian. There is an Albanian enclave in the neighborhood and there’s a lot of cultural crossover between Albanians and Italians. As a kid I wouldn’t go to a pizzeria if everyone there didn’t speak Italian. I wanted legit pizza. This was excellent. It’s not particularly close to my house but I could stop there on the way back from nature walks. It was such a treat to have pizza again.
I didn’t have to call someone yesterday. Bri called just as I was getting the pizza and I talked to them on the walk home. Bri was one of the only people I regularly talked to on the phone before the lockdown, I’ve been speaking them less often since as I’ve been speaking to other people more. I need my regular dosage of Bri. I mentioned yesterday that I made pancakes for breakfast. In one day, I had pancakes, Bri, a nature walk, and pizza; that sounds like a great mental health day. It wasn’t but it would have been far worse without those things. I was sleepy most of the day. It was a rare day without a streaming concert. I didn’t watch anything interesting on TV and I didn’t read. I hope to do better with those things today.
I finally got my reward for taking YouGov surveys. It’s a $25 give card for AMC theaters. Now I just have to wait for there to be movies in theaters again to use it. Everybody has to be very good about social distancing now so we can get out of lockup and I can use gift card. Now that you have proper motivation things will get better quickly. Remember, you aren’t being careful for your own sake but so that I can go to the movies.
Wise Madness 