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Remembering Our Last Lunch
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Título (Dublin Core)
Remembering Our Last Lunch
Description (Dublin Core)
On Friday, March 13, 2020 it was pouring rain. My co-worker/work wife/love of my life/bestest friend - the Ann Perkins to my Leslie Knope (very accurate if you know us) bought us McDonald’s for lunch. We jokingly called it “the end of the world as we know it lunch” and played REM while drinking Shamrock Shakes. We were in denial about what was happening around us. Two hours later, it was the end. We have not had lunch together, or been physically together, since then. (However, we probably outdo any teenagers in the amount we text each other. We’ve pretty much live tweeted ever minute of our incredibly mundane days to each other throughout all of quarantine.) Today, we both bought McDonald’s separately (for me, only the fifth time having fast food since shut down last March) to celebrate our year-versary of the “end of the world” lunch. One year later, it’s raining again, but it feels so different. A year ago, everything was closing down. Today, everything is opening up. I am thankful we’ve both received vaccination one, and although we are both apprehensive about school reopening in a week, the thought of seeing her face to face (six feet away and in a mask) makes me happy enough to cry. There is nothing I hope more for than for the efficacy of the vaccinations. I can only hope that the second Friday of March 2022 will see us together in my classroom, eating McDonald’s for lunch, talking about how we can’t believe we lived through a pandemic. A rainbow instead of rain would be a nice touch, too.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 12, 2021
Creator (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Tipo (Dublin Core)
Photo
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Emotion
English
Food & Drink
English
Education--K12
English
Social Distance
English
Health & Wellness
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Online Learning
English
Labor
English
Social Media (including Memes)
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
social distance
memory
anniversary
celebration
mask
reopening
school
teacher
friendship
in-person
California
protocol
safety
longing
denial
meme
gif
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
rain
McDonald's
hope
last lunch
reopening school
teacher
Collection (Dublin Core)
K-12
Vaccine Stories
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
03/13/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
03/19/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/12/2021
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This item was submitted on March 13, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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