Collected Item: “Daily Entries”
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Daily Entries
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Scans of three index card notebook entries. Written by myself and my mom at the beginning of quarantine.
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The three index card entries represent our emotions and actions at the start of the pandemic. I came back home from school to live with my mom so we relied on one another for emotional support. The shared journal helped us record our daily activities, take note of our current state of minds, and allowed us to 'take it one day at a time.' The act of writing down our movements (or lack thereof) and accomplishments (ranging from submitting my thesis to making sweet potato fries) helped us recognize that time was passing and that good days were approaching. We continued to write in our shared spiral journal for about 6 months. The entries are important to me because they reflect how my mom and I were feeling at a very uncertain and unique time in history. While I don't feel comfortable reading through them all just yet, I'm excited for the day when enough time has passed and I can reflect on the months in isolation in an objective manner.
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#IndexCardConfessions, #QuarantineQuandaries, #SharedIsolation
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Self and mom
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2020