I Suddenly Remember What Day It Is Again

Wonder what might have changed in the last week

Remember, in the early days of the pandemic, this bit?

The joke, of course, is that as the stay-at-home, shelter-in-place orders came in, and much of American life shut down, it became impossible to figure out much of anything about this new world and what connection it might have to the one that came before it. Weekdays became weekends, weekends became weekdays, every day became Wednesday. When I watched that video above for the first time, I thought, “Todd Meany should win a Pulitzer.”

There’s a term for that sensation, “temporal disintegration,” and USA Today described it back in April, through the words of an expert, as “This is because our sense of time is governed in part by the emotions that we experience and the actions we perform.” There was this money quote:

“The more intense the stress is, the more they’re gonna have to focus and cope on the present moment, the harder it will be to overcome it,” she said. “This pandemic is a chronic stressor that’s…