Jim Gaffigan on living in a time warp
It's already August. But is it, really?
I mean, the calendar may indicate that it's August. The weather outside might feel like August. The corn I planted would make you think it's August. But is it really August?
Wait – I planted corn?!?
It can't be August. There wasn't a July or a June, or a May. There was definitely an April! I remember April, it felt like a cruel extension of March.
What if we are still in March?
It could still be March. I'm still doing the same things I was doing in March. I'm still only hanging around these people I call my "family" like I did in March. I'm still dressing like I'm struggling with a hangover like I did in March.
I still don't understand how those Zoom meetings work.
I still watch the news frustrated and flabbergasted, like I was in March. I still don't understand that term "New Normal." Like I didn't understand it in March! How can something be new and normal? How can something be normal and new?
I gotta check my corn.
That's why I know it's not March, because I'm growing corn ... and why am I growing corn?
See also:
Week 1: Family life under lockdownWeek 2: Life in quarantine is like a sitcomWeek 3: Spring arrives!Week 4: Lessons of "distance learning"Week 5: Kids, quarantine and sanity are not compatibleWeek 6: Consuming all news, all the timeWeek 7: Jim Gaffigan discovers he misses strangersWeek 8: On sharing dinner with the massesWeek 9: On living in unprecedented timesWeek 10: Are we REALLY all in this together?Week 11: On not knowing what comes nextJim Gaffigan on what dads REALLY want on Father's DayJim Gaffigan on getting the whole lockdown thing wrong2020, please turn your notifications offJim Gaffigan on his first drive-in standup show
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Story produced by Sara Kugel. Editor: Emanuele Secci. Illustrations: Mitch Butler.
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