Hello there, my name is Jack Edwards and I'm reporting live from self-isolation
I don't know why I thought that was an appropriate way to start this video. But there you go. Anyway, hi. How you doing?
My name's Jack and
coronavirus is
Happening, not to me specifically I assume but we are self-isolating nonetheless, obviously
this is a totally unprecedented and
bizarre
Experience for everyone involved, I'm a University student in my final year and it is just shocking the whole thing up
to be fair so. Over the past a couple of days everything has started to sort of closed down and I am
Stuck kind of in Durham at the moment doing my dissertation. And so I thought I would share with you a
Productive day in the life of being self-isolated just because we're stuck at home doesn't mean we can't have a productive day
Am I right? Spoiler alert, I'm right. There you go
So I thought I was film today and show you what I'm doing
Hopefully motivate you to get productive too
[Intro] On tonight's program ladies and gentlemen, we have something that's gonna make you sick
𝅘𝅥𝅮(Music)𝅘𝅥𝅮
As I said the plan for today is to focus on my dissertation
Dun dun dun. Basically, that is the twelve thousand word essay. I'm writing mine on the author, Christopher Isherwood
I really enjoyed it at first but now, not so much but we've got to get through it
so I'm going to start the day by going over my secondary research and
read all through it and highlight it, colour code it so that I know which piece of information fits with which
Chapter in my diss. Does that sounds thrilling to you as it does to me?
I literally have no other choice right now because if I don't focus on something like that
Then I'll start like counting the number of eyebrow hairs I have or something stupid
So but we're going to try and be productive today. Okay, So this research document I've created is 100 pages
100 pages and about 20,000 words which is way longer than the dissertation
Actually needs to be so that's why I need to kind of go through it
Fine-tune the research and work out what is actually kind of
relevant for the essays
𝅘𝅥𝅮Baby when you tell me I'm yours all the plain just melts away-ayayay𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Sat out all the stars on your porch, tell me all about your day𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Call me late at night if you don't feel fine. Baby then I'll try to comfort you𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Like a glass of wine send me down to calm your mind take in this bliss energy𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮So I want you to feel good, watch my you damn good no another one ever could come close to you𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮What else can I say?𝅘𝅥𝅮
Okay that took hours. I think I've sorted all of those notes now. I'm just want to make myself a smoothie because
There's nothing else to do
Not bad mmm I've had better but it was it's fine
Also just had an email from the University to say that as of the end of today, the library is closing for good
So we can no longer use that as a kind of study space. So we're completely house bound from now on
I actually find it really hard and distracting to work from home. So it's really not an ideal situation
I mean the whole thing is an ideal obviously, but yeah
I guess we kind of just have to work with it and pull through not just for ourselves but for kind of our
Families and the houses that we go back to and the people that we're around so yeah
It's a necessary evil. I suppose. Right now my plan is to continue writing my actual dissertation
So the actual kind of essay
I've had a little break from reading it through so I want to have a proper read through and kind of
Assess it again with fresh eyes and hope it's not absolutely terrible. We don't have to start again from scratch again
𝅘𝅥𝅮Baby you're the one I adore, all the others are just great𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Curled up on your couch in a storm all my cookies on a tray𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮When you're feeling down get on over to my house baby𝅘𝅥𝅮
I am so bored
I can't even imagine how
Awful, it must be to have been in quarantine all or like lockdown for as long as some people have like it's actually mad
I'm just plowing on with my diss I've written
1300 words so feeling pretty good about that. There is probably a case to be argued that coronavirus has actually helped my dissertation
But I wouldn't necessarily call that a silver lining. I've got this real sense of like cabin fever not fever
Not a symptom of coronavirus just cabin fever and it's kind of stopped raining now, so I think I might go for a run
I've been for a run for a very long time. I just I need something to do. So, let's get into a more appropriate outfit
Ayyy, I hope that worked. Yeah, I'm gonna try and go for a run and we'll see where that takes me
I've got like halfway and
Totally fucked up my leg. It hurts so much, so gonna keep going but
Painful, probably done more harm than good here. So now I'm in self isolation and I have a sore leg
so I kind of just made the situation worse for myself. And we are back to the grind, back to
Doing some work
𝅘𝅥𝅮Like morphine in a drip I'll heal you when you're sick𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮No wish is too big to grant𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Cos I want you to feel good, watch are you damn good. No another one never could come close to you𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮What else can I say?𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮I'm Jay, you're Kanye?𝅘𝅥𝅮
So I've just been going over my sort of to-do list of a few
Little tasks that I needed to do like reply to some emails
I've been looking over some new designs for ink outside the box which is super super exciting and
Also practicing some sign language because I haven't examined it supposedly at least I'm supposed to have an exam in it
just after the Easter holidays whether that goes ahead or not is
Questionable. So yeah I thought that was still being productive in doing work
But it's quite an enjoyable one
Like it's kind of just a hobby and I'm gonna head downstairs and do some more work to wrap up the day
𝅘𝅥𝅮Summer in a T-shirt and jeans𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Hair slicked back as𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Hard lights up when you're on my screen tell me boy this ain't a dream𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮You're drive me crazy baby𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮Cos I want you to feel good𝅘𝅥𝅮
𝅘𝅥𝅮wide smile damn good𝅘𝅥𝅮
Okay, so I think I am going to wrap up this video here. Thank you so so much for watching
I hope you enjoyed it, that feels like a weird thing to say before all in self-isolation
But I really hope that you're all doing okay
um
I hope that maybe just even watching this video either
Motivated you to have a productive day in self-isolation or just gave you something to watch and something to do
I hope you're all looking after yourselves and doing okay
If you're feeling a bit lonely and low and need someone to talk to
Pop a comment in the comment section down below and hopefully we can all just have a chat
Reply to some other people's comments and just get a conversation going just so that we can you know
We'll get through this together in the wise words of a great philosopher. We are all in this together
Yeah
I'm going to hop into bed read a book and get some sleep ready for a
fun-filled day of social
Distancing tomorrow. Give this video a like if you liked it if you like and subscribe for more from me also
Can I just say thank you so much for all of the incredible and overwhelming support on the last video
It has honestly blown my mind and been so
Cathartic and it's given me a real sense of closure on that whole Oxford rejection thing
If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't you worry, but basically I got rejected from Oxford. It's fine. I'm doing fine
And yeah, I just really really appreciate how kind everyone's been
So continue being so be kind some other people as well
Comment down below and we can have a chat and I will talk to you very soon, buh bye
[Outro] In case I don't see ya good afternoon good evening and good night