Jess and I haven’t left the apartment for about 48 hours now, and, thus far, I’m enjoying it immensely. I’ve been productive working from home during the day, and we’ve been cooking up a storm, and watching our way through The Crown, in the evenings.

Still, by Friday, we’ll have eaten most of our perishable food items, and I’m trying to leave the few weeks of stuff we have in the freezer and pantry untouched, just in case things take a turn for the worse. I had hoped to get groceries delivered going forward, but Whole Foods is still wildly low on inventory, and it’s far more difficult to order around that in the abstract than it is to adjust plans on the fly if you can actually look at the shelves. Similarly, I considered going back to Fresh Direct, which I used some years back, but they literally have zero available delivery slots in the next week.

So, it appears, I’ll be venturing back out into the world at some point soon. A block or so off, there’s a Key Foods, which remained fully stocked this weekend even as the neighborhood Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s largely sold out. (I suspect that’s a function of the largely Black and Latinx customer base; there’s a lot of privilege inherent in hoarding.) But, it’s also relatively teeny, with close aisles that back up with even just a handful of people in the store, and the selection of fresh foods is relatively sparse. Conversely, our neighborhood Whole Foods is fairly wide open, and seems to be full of vegetables (at least per Instagram). So I’m weighing out options, as well as crafting a shopping list ordered by aisle, so I can show up at either store as soon as it opens, and charge through in minimum time.

Today, I’m also considering possibly heading out for a run. The Upper West Side looks sparse out my window, and I usually run along the street, next to the parked cars, rather than on the sidewalks. So, I think, I should be far enough away from any other pedestrians to keep the risk low. Right?

Either way, still puzzling through this semi-quarantine, and the life logistics it’s going to entail. Though, as I suspect it will extend on until at least the end of next month, I should have plenty of time to figure it out.