“My mother always said: ‘Life is like a roll of toilet paper. You don’t really appreciate it until you spend 4 years alone on an island.’”

My Quarantine Diary

The best way to keep your sanity is to give up on it.

Adam Hrankowski, ADHD
2 min readApr 9, 2020

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Day 1 of quarantine: Dress for business. That will direct your mindset toward working at home.

Day 2 of quarantine: Even though your online clients can’t smell your breath, they can tell if you haven’t brushed your teeth.

Day 3 of quarantine: Changing your underwear has health benefits.

Day 4 of quarantine: “Honeeeeeeeee! Where’s the toilet paper?”

Day 5 of quarantine: If you use the computer with the lo-res webcam, no one will notice if there’s broccoli in your teeth.

Day 6 of quarantine: Put on your daytime pajamas.

Day 7 of quarantine: If Jesus didn’t use deodorant, why should I?

Day 8 of quarantine: Do I really even need a webcam for this online meeting?

Day 9 of quarantine: I love you Netflix, oh yes I doooooo!

Day 10 of quarantine: Personal hygiene? I seem to remember something about that.

Day 11 of quarantine: “Honeeeeeeeeeee! We really need toilet paper!”

Day 12 of quarantine: Did I just spend all day punching F5 of my Medium stats page?

Day 13 of quarantine: If I grow my beard long enough, I can comb it over my bald spot.

Day 14 of quarantine: I never realized how versatile newspaper is.

Day 15 of quarantine: Wilson, I love you!

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Adam Hrankowski, ADHD
Adam Hrankowski, ADHD

Written by Adam Hrankowski, ADHD

Canadian math guy, experimenting with fiction. Find my new scifi/fantasy serial here: https://unaccompaniedminor.substack.com/

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