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A year in which every day feels the same as the day before, and the day before that, stuck in your own private Punxsutawney thanks to Covid.
March 2020 to March 2021 felt like Groundhog Year to many, their working, academic and social lives constrained, confined, out of reach, the old forward motion of days, weeks, months a diminishing dream.
An unsolicited photo of a person's genitalia. The politically correct term for what was long known as "indecent exposure", borrowed from the whole baby-coming-out-party idiocy.
She was neither shocked nor offended by Jared's sending her a dick pic an hour after their first date, as if he was unsure whether he was actually a man. She was fairly certain he was, and was not in need of the gender reveal.
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Flirting with death by going shopping during coronaviral stay-at-home orders.
There was a strong chance of catching the virus, going out was playing Virussian Roulette, but she had stopped caring.
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The Pavlov smartphone. It pings, buzzes, vibrates or rings and you JUMP! to respond.
Named for Ivan Pavlov, a Nobel-winning Russian physiologist famous for his work in classical conditioning.
To his eternal astonishment, she was incapable of ignoring her p-Phone, no matter the circumstance.
The minimum number of quarantined, work-from-home members that must be logged into an online video meeting to make the proceedings valid.
As the Zoom leader waited for the tenth member to sign in, unable to begin until the meeting had a quorumtine, she wondered whether they would ever see each other again in the real world.
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A state in which a person is so pompous they become irreversibly rigid.
Stepping out of her limo with her nose in the air and her mink wrapped tightly around her shoulders, she looked thoroughly pompossified.
Those who understand that the words "Please wear a mask" do not mean: 1) carry it in your hand, 2) wear it around your neck or 3) wear it covering your chin but not your mouth and nose.
YOU! ... Yes, you, coming within inches of me, breathing in my face, with YOUR MASK SECURED AROUND YOUR ELBOW! please respect my right to live even if you don't care about your own, because Smart Lives Matter.