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Mountaintop Demotivation

With this comic, you have to start from the bottom, and work your way up through hard work and a determination to succeed.

I’m ten letters away from completing Q is for Quarantine (of course, then comes putting everything together into an actual book), which has been two-and-a-half-years in the making. I started this project for myself, to keep myself amused while struggling with long covid in March 2020, and I’m finishing it for myself. I have so many projects from 2020 left undone, that finally completing one will be a relief, and a real accomplishment. But I also realize that its subject has long since turned it into a “pandemic souvenir” (yikes–what an idea!) rather than an observation of current events, and its completion is relevant only to me. Kindly, and unlike in the comic, no one has actually said this to me! Even if they had, I’m still having fun, and am happy to complete this project entirely for my own satisfaction. But I decided to put a sarcastic, pessimistic spin on the feeling, and created this demotivational poster-style comic.

Climb every mountain….

L is for Long-Hauler

This wasn’t part of the original alphabet I created in April 2020, because “long-haul covid” or “long covid” were terms only just coming into existence then–but it certainly deserves a place in this collection.

One of the things that stood out to me, once I discovered other covid long-haulers, was that we were all keeping count of the days we had been ill. I stopped counting days at 100, and started counting months…and now, years. It has indeed been a long road.

J is for Juggling Responsibilities

From Q is for Quarantine: a Coronavirus Alphabet.

“J” and “K” were two of the hardest letters to think of “words” (or phrases) for. But this seemed to fit, for a time when everyone’s spaces and responsibilities were being rearranged.

Also, “responsibilities” has so many “i”s in it at the end, that I had to look up the spelling to make sure I wasn’t just adding them in for fun.

Please Just Go Away…

I’m still determined to finish Q is for Quarantine, even if it has been almost 2-1/2 years in the making, simply out of sheer stubbornness. We’re not called covid “long-haulers” for nothing!

I drew these while sick with covid (confirmed, this time) in January. Though not as severe this time as it was in March 2020, it still dragged on and caused further health issues. I do really wish all of it would just go away….