Day 40 (April 28): Wolf Alice - Soapy Water

I have been washing my hands a lot lately. I know, not to state the bleeding obvious. We have all discovered the wonders of making our hands the absolute cleanest they can be, singing "Happy Birthday" twice while lathering just like our dear leader has suggested.

There are, not to state the bleeding obvious again, good reasons to do this. Got to keep them COVID particles, or whatever the shit, away. Nonetheless, there's downsides too, namely that the surface of my palms has often come to resemble the salt flats of Utah. TMI? I don't know. I feel like there's been enough of an eczema uptick lately to make these things less gross, even if it's still gross.

I've been weirdly interested in this irony lately. My cracked skin is proof that I am doing what needs to be done - making one bit suffer to save something else. I would try and make a wider point of this, but I can hear Donald Trump's yells of "the cure cannot be worse than the problem" intensifying. Still, I feel sorry for my hands.

Today's song of the day, "Soapy Water" from Wolf Alice's 2014 album My Love is Cool, has little to nothing to do with this. I really just picked it because of the title. But I think it gets the point that staying clean ain't simple across nicely.