Well THAT was Weird

My last entry was ripping on the WeWork experience, I wasn’t expecting their business to be extinct a few months later. They can put up shower curtains between the coffee stations, its still not a place I ever want to find myself.

Washington, DC is a weird place of late. The morning commute rush is gone, the trains I once fought for space on a rainy Thursday afternoon are virtually empty. The Capitol is under armed military occupation and razor wire. Busking has ceased entirely. Today you might walk past a row of people living in tents to have a romantic dinner inside a different tent on the same sidewalk.

What’s left is the feeling of living within a husk of your former life. The untouched rack of business casual clothing, way too much plaid. I found a movie ticket in my coat pocket. Theaters apparently were showing movies last year, though I can’t meaningfully construct any timeline of 2020. Last year never ended and we’ll be stuck with the same 9/11 safety themed theatrics for the foreseeable future, which basically means f o r e v e r. We’ve found the atomic button for enacting nonsensical public policy and it will be smashed into oblivion.

This experience has just made me yearn to live a more remote existence. City life is dead, I just want to be among trees and the terrifying indifference of nature.