The girlette Seven eagerly volunteered for Quarantine Duty.
She's in transit to a friend from the old days of bloggin, "Clowncar" (Jeff Wood). Let's see... *checks Clowncar's blog Oort Cloud* Last post was May 2011.
His young-adult daughter is sick (hopefully not The Virus), so they're in house-quarantine in Colorado.
His young-adult daughter is sick (hopefully not The Virus), so they're in house-quarantine in Colorado.
Clowncar loves dinosaurs, so a new dino dress was sewn for Seven.
Note the driftwood lamp. ^ I LOVE it--it's from HouseMate's childhood (she was b. 1957).
Seven was super excited about going UP in a plane, to fly to Clowncar.
Seven prepped by reviewing Tolstoy's Three Questions in children's book form. (See also, The Year of Living Dangerously. "What then should we do?")
1. When is the best time to do things? (Now.)
2. Who is most important? (The one you are with.)
3. What is the right thing to do? (Good, for the one next to you.)
I
cut up the leftover flannel fabric to use as toilet wipes---HouseMate
and I are down to 4 rolls and the grocery stores are still out.
Ever
since I wrote the book about the history of toilets, I've wanted to
switch to cloth wipes for pee (still prefer to flush the solids). The
amount of t.p. people use is staggering. So I'm finally being forced strongly motivated to do what I want to do.
How
humiliating and yet hilarious the Great Toilet-Paper Shortage is. If we
humans were to be wiped out by the virus (or something else), our
collective gravestone could read:
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOTTOMS WIPED
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOTTOMS WIPED
The toilet paper thing is the most confounding aspect of this whole crisis, at least in my mind. I never would have guessed that people would feel such insane demand for such a rudimentary (and fundamentally unnecessary, as you point out) item. There ARE other options! I don't even know how many rolls we still have, but I've pretty much given up on getting any until all my neighbors feel they've hoarded an adequate amount.
ReplyDeleteI love Seven's dinosaur dress!
Safe travels, Seven! I hope you have great adventures!
ReplyDeleteSTEVE: The toilet-paper thing is interesting, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI'd guess it reflects a deep-seated fear that the most basic aspects of civilization will be (are being) lost...
and we will regress to barbarity.
(Though hoarding t.p. is itself rather barbaric.)
But, yeah, you don't have to have this commercially produced product to wipe your bum!
BINK: I hope Jeff will post photos of her new adventures!