Staying safe

[clocketpatch]

 Hello to any and all still on this feed. I am safe and secure during this great isolation event (which feels like the backstory for a Classic Doctor Who episode tbh). My area has no reported cases and is working hard to keep it that way. I am laid off (like half the planet, it feels like), but on the plus side that means I can stay home and do my bit to keep my community safe.

I haven't been around here for a long time. I've been busy with life, and have been avoiding the latest season of Who since I've been told by reliable sources that the finale would make me unhappy (and since I've never been a Chibnal fan, I'm taking that warning seriously), but if anyone wants to chat during this time about past seasons of Who, Blakes 7, art, writing, gardening, that terrible tiger docuseries, or anything else, I'm here to natter on and help take your mind off things.

Take care everyone. Stay safe.


(and special thanks to JJPOR for reaching out and reminding me that I hadn't checked in with everyone here yet)

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[eve11]

Hi! I am glad you are doing well. Sorry to hear about the layoff; that really sucks though :(

Doing fine here as well. D and I are both working from home for the pandemic. Though I left my house for the first time in 3 weeks yesterday to go pick up my car so it could sit in my driveway instead of the rental I'd gotten (D backed into my car with his truck in the driveway a few weeks back). Was surprised how unused to driving I'd gotten in just 3 weeks.

I haven't gotten around to the last few episodes of this season of Who. I've been pretty meh on 13 so far. And Chibs. Haven't been watching much TV, although that doesn't mean I'm substituting that for productive things. I miss seeing you and the old crew around on LJ/DW and having lots of awesome Who stuff to talk/write about.

[clocketpatch]

Glad to hear you're doing well! My employer did what she could to keep us, but there was no work and the emergency benefit is going to pay more than reduced hours would, so it's best all around. We've been told that we'll all be recalled once the world gets back to normal.

Yikes about your car. My brother did that to his wife's car last summer. Makes me wonder how common interfamily collisions are.

I also miss the seeing the old crew around. I'm hoping to write more with all of this free time I'm suddenly experiencing. We'll see how that goes. I have to keep reminding myself that it's okay to not be full steam ahead productive in the middle of a pandemic.

[eve11]

Ah well that's good that you will get called back. Hopefully things will get back to normal soon. Part of me is looking forward to that, but part of me is also kind of glad that I don't have to drive to/from work every day (which for me is 100 miles round trip). It would be nice to be able to drive to other places though.

Ha, it's not even the first time that's happened within this family. I backed into D's car a few years ago. Didn't cause quite as much damage. And this time around everything (including the driveway-bound rental car) was covered by insurance. So it's not so bad. The worst thing about it was the few times I did drive the rental car, it smelled terribly of cigarette smoke inside.

I have about 2000 words of the next section of the WIP-o-Doom done. I might be able to post within the month. Other than that I've not been doing a lot of fannish stuff. I should try to figure out how to get back into writing. Maybe catching up w/Big Finish would help the fannish spark. I did find some good Eleven era stories on Ao3. I kind of miss Twelve too, but I'm not very good at writing that era. Maybe I should poke at that some more.