Abstract
This piece was written in late July 2020. Stay-at-home orders had been lifted a couple months prior in Minnesota, but both the state and the country were seeing a steep rise in COVID-19 infections. No viable vaccine was on the horizon.
I wanted to play with chronology in this piece. Spending fourteen months inside the same set of walls makes both time – and memory – slippery. Hard to wrestle into a recognizable shape. So the events of these two days are told in a chronological jumble that more closely resembles how I recall events of the last year. And while Zoom, in its pandemic ubiquity, doesn’t make an appearance, the electronic communication channels – texting, social media – that we all leaned on even more than usual in our year of isolation play a central role here. Hopefully this piece serves as a tiny record of the communication strategies and rocky interpersonal contexts so many of us navigated in the pandemic.
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Recommended Citation
Kuyper, C.
(2021).
It is. It isn't. It is..
Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal, 44(1).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56816/2471-0032.1097
