I’m not as gloomy as I sound; far from it. Generally cheerful but occasionally, suddenly, I’m just pissed, to be honest. Every time I go downtown to the empty building – no coffee shops; closed for The Duration; new restaurant that was going to open on the skyway level is still closed; the vast atrium deserted – I get angry, and there’s no place to put it.
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But it’s not a compensation for not being able to go inside the store. When will that change? Don’t know. No one knows. We’d all be better if we had a date. A precise day. October 14, 11:23 AM, everything is back to normal. I could take that. You could take that. We all could take that, but I think around the third reset of the “two weeks to stop it for good, this time” we let that go.
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