another movie about humanity uniting to defeat an enemy life form. Tonight my choice is “ Independence Day”.
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Last time I chose “ Edge of Tomorrow,” in which Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt have to live out the same day over and over again until they figure out how to beat the aliens. I eventually find a groove and get some work done.Īfter dinner, it’s family movie time. A good laugh helps, and this never fails. In the afternoon, I still can’t get into a groove, so I rewatch a bit of Ronny Chieng’s Netflix special. It seemed like a good idea, but after finishing I just want to binge the show again. My rationale is that I’m getting her voice into my head. I pick up my copy of “Fleabag,” the original script for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one-woman play. After walking the dog, feeding the dog and making the bed, I sit down to work. Except, in the perverse logic of a “Twilight Zone” episode, my wish came true under the worst imaginable circumstances. Which is to say, having this time with them feels like a bonus, a parent’s secret wish fulfilled. I’ll walk out to see them packing up the car, headed off to colleges very far away. They’re 12 and 10, but I live in constant fear of waking up one morning to find that they grew up overnight. Other than the fact that my kids now go to school in our kitchen. I no longer know what that means.įor the past couple of years, I’ve been writing full-time at home ( my own fiction as well as for TV), so self-isolation has not changed my daily routine. Charles Yu, whose most recent novel is “Interior Chinatown,” reads about Uber and (what else?) an apocalyptic pandemic, watches apocalyptic blockbusters, plays “Portal 2,” exercises and gets into “Ozark.” Thursday, April 2 The Times asked authors to track what they do in isolation.
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