Well, the world is in the midst of something I don’t think anyone in modern times thought would ever happen – a pandemic is shutting down a huge portion of our lives. The economy is cratering accordingly. Our president is deciding to pass the buck and not take any decisive leadership or try to ensure that testing and PPE is widely available, so what may have been something much more preventable is just going to get further and further out of control. I honestly can’t believe this is what’s happening in the world.
I am ridiculously lonely and at times, I get unbearably emotional. Wine definitely exacerbates those emotions, but I’m not about to be sober during this period. My friends have been wonderful – we have a text thread, which recently migrated to WhatsApp as Mila and Nicki’s texts were coming in super-delayed for some reason. Last week my coworkers at PwC DRS in LA all had a virtual Happy Hour via Google Hangout/Chat. It was amazing – we all had video up so you could see people and it really made for a nice two hours. I got drunk. And then continued by having a video chat with the girls right afterwards – yeah, that was a fun night, until it wasn’t when I just was drunk and emotional.
I can’t see my mom for obvious reasons, to avoid getting her and anyone else at the assisted living home from getting sick. So I play lots of video games, I watch TV (Westworld really has been killing it in this new season; I’m also rewatching all of Twin Peaks, which is fantastic), I watch movies, and then distractions end.
I had a dream about Larry last night that felt more than just a dream. Sveta had let me borrow a book called “Be Here Now”, which is an older book that dives deep into eastern spiritualism. I’m not going to try to summarize it, but it did help to let me have some perspective on death, life, living and embracing now….etc. I was reading that last night, and I think it stuck in my head. I ended up having a dream where Larry and I were just hanging out. In the dream, I knew he had died, so I knew this was after-death Larry. He was all smiles and content. We talked about the Stereogum Number Ones article series I’ve written about earlier that he loved, and I told him that I’d been keeping up on those articles now because of him. He liked that. And he smiled. The dream ended, and I never have ever not wanted to wake up as much as I did during that moment. It tears me apart to even write about it, as it was both exceedingly happy and devastating to feel this. I miss him so much. Not sure I’ll make it through this whole period, but I will try.