I haven’t ridden my bike at all this week as I have been working too much the past few days. On Wednesday I was still editing a dreadful analysis piece until 11:30 pm so until the next day I was so exhausted and brain-dead.

And tonight, I finished the only article I wrote for the week past 6 pm when editors from East and Southeast Asia have already retired for the weekend. The rest of the week I was wrestling with a lot of articles that required a lot of brain cells to fix. All my requests for interview were ignored. It is indeed soul-crushing.

The government has now declared Metro Manila and nearby provinces to be under general community quarantine (GCQ) albeit with heightened restrictions and I really lost track of what is allowed and not allowed in the new lockdown-not-lockdown classification. I want to go diving but the daily new cases are still high at almost 7,000 as of today. I don’t know where I can go to have a breath of fresh air and a different scenery.

I’m so tired.

I need to be away, I guess. For a week. To where, I don’t know. To do what, I don’t know. Even though I’m fully vaccinated, I’m still not protected from Covid because of the low efficacy of Sinovac’s vaccine. This limits my options. Maybe I’ll just drive to nowhere.