ceasarslegion · 6 months ago
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genuinely one of the best summers i ever had was, funny enough, 2020. After my uni closed down for the lockdowns, I spent it staying with my nan and grandad in their tiny saskatchewan town in the middle of nowhere. 500 people, not a single covid case, the next sizable town was an hours drive away. Meaning I didn't have to worry about exposure, all my homework and exams and classes were asynchronous, and this town is in such a fertile fossil valley that it has its own dinosaur museum.
I went biking down the trails and explored up the hills and over yonder every day, took a job as a reporter for the town's little newspaper where I ran stories about the residents' little businesses and the museum's new research that I could do at my leisure as long as I gave my reports to the editor (who was also my great uncle) by a certain deadline, and even ran a booth at that year's summer dinosaur festival. Since my nan and grandad's house is so small, they hooked up their camping trailer to their power grid and water main and I slept in there with working power outlets and running water, it was like a little apartment. I also pulled a bunch of the town's elder population into the present by introducing them to how modern computers work and by the end of the summer they were posting custom emojis in the discord server I set up as a more efficient community bulletin than the email lists nobody really read.
I mean I did get bit by a tick that one time but other than that, it was a genuinely great summer. The town didn't have a single case of covid until 2021 after some irresponsible high school students went to a party in Regina and brought it back with them, meaning it was its own little bubble in the midst of all the global catastrophe i faced in the city before I stayed with them.
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