Diary assignment

ONE STUDENT, ONE DAY AT A TIME, NYC PANDEMIC
Ganesh Sitaram, English 1101 361
March 23-26, 2020

MARCH 23, 2020- OZONE PARK, JAMAICA, NEW YORK CITY
2:25 PM

Dear Diary,
I’m writing my first entry after checking open lab. Today started out as any normal quarantine day, with the abundance of sanitizer, gloves and masks making my job a little difficult since I’m not accustomed to wearing gloves and a mask. For my job I depend on the feelings in my hands because I detail cars, so I must feel the paint in order to know how to proceed with the detailing. Anyways I’m on lunch break right now so I decided to start my diary entry. Today I grabbed a small lunch because my options were limited since majority of places are closed, I got a chicken parm with a 20-ounce coke. Surprisingly its tasting really good, not going to lie I was skeptical about it because I never ordered anything from Ozone Pizzeria before. Just finished my lunch, didn’t have much time to write a lot so this will conclude my first diary entry.

MARCH 24, 2020- SOUTH JAMAICA, NEW YORK CITY
6:17 AM

Dear Diary,
Literally just woke up to my phone ringing, when I checked I saw that I had 7 missed calls from my boss. When I saw that I immediately knew what it was about, yesterday I had to close the shop since I was working the afternoon shift, and instead of leaving the keys in the locker I kept it in my pocket. Now I must get to my job before 7am and its my day off. I’m kind of angry but it’s my fault so I can’t complain. Got to go so I will continue after I return home. Now its 9:39am came home and made some breakfast. I made a turkey-bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich with a glass of orange juice and a cup of Keurig Starbucks medium roast coffee. I don’t really drink orange juice that much, but since the corona virus attacks your immune system, I’ve been taking a lot of vitamins. Other than that, today will be a chill day I will be continuing my online courses for my other classes, I have a lab report that’s due by 6pm today and an online test starting at 4pm and ending at 6:30pm. So, for the remainder of the day I will be performing an experiment and studying.

MARCH 25, 2020- SOUTH JAMAICA, NEW YORK CITY
4:03 PM

Dear Diary,
Today has been going pretty good so far, I woke up around 9:30am and headed to the grocery store. It wasn’t a shock to see the shelves empty and cases of water that was once 3 cases for $10.00 is now $7.99 each. After I was finished from the grocery store I went to the pharmacy only to see the vitamin and nutrition isle was full of products. I found this very odd because as we know the corona virus affects the immune system which means we should build our immune systems by using vitamins. I got a few vitamins, such as b12, vitamin C, and vitamin D. I’m kind of taking my own approach on the virus but at the same time still doing the basic social distancing, and cleaning of the hands and face. Since today is Wednesday I have a couple of classes today, I just received an email from Art history saying that instead of us meeting online every Mondays and Wednesdays we will be given a test on each of those days since many people is having so much difficulty with the distance learning. Luckily for me this English class has made it easy to communicate using the open lab website.

MARCH 26, 2020- SOUTH JAMAICA, NEW YORK CITY
3:46 AM

Dear Diary,
As you can tell by the time that I’m writing this, you can tell that I am REALLY bored. I already feel like I’m doing the same thing every day, not going to lie I kind of feel like I’m in prison but at the same time not really. Ever since we got the news that we will be doing distance learning, and I won’t be able to go to work since my job is not “essential” I finished twelve seasons of Criminal Minds on Netflix and I’m already on season 10 of Bones on Hulu. At this point I feel like I’m watching a full season per day and its beginning to get very boring. If I happen to leave my house it usually really fast, just going to do something important then rush back home. Even when I’m outside its really depressing because its not the usual sight, the roads and side walks are almost empty. Even on social media and T.V all you see is some type of “new” information or some sort of broadcast on the corona virus. I know it’s something life threatening but I feel like if they don’t find a cure soon we will all go crazy from being in our homes.