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title: 2020 so far
date: 2020-06-01
pub:
  year: 2020
---

# 2020 so far

This has been a stranger year than most, even when not taking COVID-19
into account.

Buying a house, selling our apartment, renovations, contractors taking
our money and then ghosting us, water damage under the floors -- and
more!

Shoulder dislocations aplenty; when moving appliances, hastily grabbing
a coffee cup before our boy did, when stretching out my chest, when
sleeping with my hand behind my head.

Funeral attendance over Zoom. I had to put my distrust of Zoom aside for
that, not my hill to die on. Most of our combined families are in Sweden
whereas we ourselves are in Norway. The lockdown has made the 600 km
divide between us accute.

This is a personal memo to remember these 6 months, and that freedom to
travel is a privilege and not a right. Throughout my life borders have
become looser and easier to traverse, and it has been an assumption of
mine that it would continue in that direction. One virus is all it took
to fundamentally challenge that.

Half the year to go, I wonder what lasting changes we'll see.