Ernestine Under Quarantine: Week 8 Chat!
Added 2020-05-15 18:00:04 +0000 UTCHello, friends!
A whole 4 days, without any new posts! I am grumpy about it, although to apologize after two months of daily posts seems an excessive mea culpa.
But it's happened--the Pandemic Blues have gotten to me badly enough that motivation is in scarce supply. It appears that an enormous part of my mental health is (a) having reasons to leave the house often and (b) having several of those reasons be to meet clients. There have been additional factors--the sex worker community in Germany is being thoroughly fucked over--which I discuss in this check-in.
I have to say I really love sitting down to chat to you all before I dance. I warm up quite a bit, then turn the music off and the camera on and have a moment of grounding and quiet where, with your indulgence, I can pour out my soul in words before doing it in movement. It is so helpful. I'll say it again: This project has kept me tethered to reality and sanity in a way hard to explain or over-emphasize.
News! I am hoping this is my last week of Videos From the Bedroom!!! Berlin dance studios are opening back up, and the hourly rate is sheer music to the ears of a wandering pointe dancer. In addition, a very special someone (again, I am in the perpetual debt of my wonderful former Boston clients) has bought me a new camera, which shall help with fanciness and production quality going forward.
And the Berlin Senat has given me a luxurious entire month more, at least, of being forbidden to do my job (HARRUMPH), so my goal it to continue the daily-video project for at least that much longer.
So, for now, enjoy. We shall see what the future brings.
I am wishing you all well and safe.
Fondly,
Ernestine.
