I can tell my mood by how often I blog. Honestly, there’s not a heap to blog about these days, and hasn’t been for the last year.

I’m doing ok. I’m surviving.

I’m trying to ignore how appallingly bad the pandemic has been handled by Germany and Europe and much of the rest of the world. I’m trying to ignore the plans I had and the desires I have. I’ve done good work in the last year. I’ve lost my shit a couple of times and truly, no fucks given. I like the person I am when I need to be harsh.

I’m deeply sad at how the pandemic has been handled has disproportionately hit trans and queer people, and Indigenous, Black, Brown, and migrant people. And how selective access to the vaccine is exacerbating this. And how all we hear about is how tough it is for ‘families.’ Dog-whistling so loud I can smell it. It’s on-going grief and I survive because I survived before.

I got the novel — which I gave myself to during post-surgery recovery back in late-2019, finally having time for art again and it flooding out — to a 4th draft and people are reading it. And that’s a madness ’cos I never believed in myself on that.

I’ve really lost it on training though, especially since blowing my delightfully petty back to shit in early-November. I think it’s that ‘surviving’ for me is mental and emotional discipline and training has always been that as well and I don’t have much in the tank at the moment for pushing myself.

I’m really missing physical contact, seeing the same three people for a year, sometimes only once every couple of weeks. It’s austere as fuck. It’s what it takes. It reminds me my neurofuckery, which tends towards a lot of time on my own while still loving being around people, has not aided me in having a lot of close friends in Berlin. Or maybe that’s on Berlin.

I wanna say, “It’s all good,” ’cos I can do this for as long as it takes. It’s not though, but whatever, suck it up till it’s done kinda thing.

Anyway, this was supposed to be a couple of lines reminder to myself, and now it’s a long, unformatted few hundred words. Fucking weirdarse twelve months which mainly dialled up the contrast on how shitty our current era of late-, high-, necro-, 500 years of- capitalism is, how like an authoritarian dictatorship democracy looks these days, nah it was always that.

It was Strada Bianche yesterday, one of my fave bike races. Weird as watching the women thrash it out. Doing anything we love in a pandemic feels weird. It’s also rhubarb and asparagus season (green thanks, not the white stuff they love up north-west Europe). I dunno. Yeah, doing ok. Ok is good enough.

(I added in some paragraphs ’cos my neurofuckery hates walls of text and won’t even on that shit ??‍♀️)