So since I moved the beds to the opposite side of the room, I now wake up with a mirror right up against my face. You know how your face tends to change everyday but only you can notice the differences? Well the last couple of mornings have been pretty interesting. I either wake up with a “gah!” or a “oh hey there” depending on who’s staring back at me that morning. I wonder if this is what it’s like to be married…
I take a couple seconds to remind myself of where I am, how bizarre those dreams were and that I could just lay here all day long and nobody is going to say or do a thing about it!
Except me of course… so then I get up.
We are now already half way through quarantine! Time is actually moving at a very moderate pace for me in here. And I’m still very oddly comfortable and content in this confined space. I am now finding myself getting a bit attached to my little enclosure. It might have something to do with this time in quarantine randomly turning into creating my own website, having somewhere to blog my thoughts and a few more idea’s I have now come up with stemming from that…
Speaking of idea’s – Since today was a really busy day for me (learning more about the website side of things), I didn’t get time to think about how exactly i’m going to execute my creativity in confinement experiment. I am now spending WAY too much time on my laptop which I am really not used to and now my eyes are starting to feel funny. So this is probably the best time for me to constrict myself of technology.
Today I completely disregarded the camera in the corner. I officially did not care at all about it being there no matter what I was doing (or saying), so that was awesome… until I got an email of my video summary and realised the video had stopped. Again. I then discovered I was in fact wrong about Twitch being an unlimited streaming service. It is the longest I’ve found (48-hours) but not unlimited. Again, if only I had thought of the idea sooner and could’ve explored more options. But that’s okay, there is now about 143-hours of extremely ordinary video footage of me rearranging furniture, decorating the hotel room, sleeping, practicing yoga, writing, reading, singing and dancing to every style of music, moving the furniture again, attempting foreign accents, unapologetically stuffing my face with food, talking to myself, laughing at myself, cleaning like a mad person, and probably at some point just scratching my butt, all for the internet weirdos to enjoy!
In saying all this, as “serendipitous” as ever, it now means I can more effectively be disconnected to technology which works better for my next experiment! Only now no one will get to see what happens…
I’ve created a little recycling corner in my room over the last week and finally called up ‘Magic’ today to ask if they recycle at the Hilton and to my delight, the lady said yes! So I was very happy about that and finally put my rubbish out in the hallway with a clear conscience. Lunch today was grilled eggplant, some couscous and veggies with a bread bun (mmm bread).
With all this planning on being disconnected from reality, I can’t help but think that my life will then turn into a crazy episode of Black Mirror! Like maybe i’ll be stuck in this room forever! Or the noises I hear outside my door are just recordings and I’m really just all alone in a big building or under some kind of simulation! Or aliens might come down and congratulate me on being rid of all the radioactivity!
I’m kidding of course… I just have a wild imagination.
So then I decided to watch an episode of Black Mirror while I ate dinner – which was a pumpkin and potato medley in a red sauce with another but different style of couscous, a slice of red velvet cake (score) and again, my all time favourite POPCORN!!
Tomorrow I will start preparing for the experiment and finish doing all the final things I am reliant on technology for. I’m kind of excited for tomorrow. Like I’m going on an excursion… with myself… to nowhere…