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About me: My name is Johanna, but most people call me Jo. I am in my mid 40’s and live in Ottawa with two very energetic but loving daughters (aged 6 and 8) and two boy cats who are very therapeutic when said daughters get into mischief. I am instructional designer in the air navigation field.<\/p>\n
The contents of my bag seem to capture my current reality of chaos intertwined with nostalgia.<\/p>\n
Although I might present as overall \u201cput together\u201d my bag would betray me and say otherwise. My day-to-day pandemic life involves working from home and then rushing to drive kids, run errands, etc. Arriving everywhere late or at the absolute last minute. The deodorant, loose make-up pieces, are my attempt to look someone decent before I get out of the car. The make up brand printed in text on the individual pieces is the least expensive you can buy at Shopper\u2019s Drug Mart because I constantly lose stuff or forget my cosmetic bag and therefore keep rebuying everything.<\/p>\n
There is ONE earring that I can\u2019t wear as I am missing the other one. Also shown, is part of a wrapper from a chocolate bar that I had for breakfast with a coffee I picked up on the way back from dropping off my kids at school. There are loose cards because I took them out of my wallet to fit in a small clutch and never bothered to put them back. You can see the mask I never wear as it has been \u201cmarinating\u201d in the dirty bottom of the purse and I have yet to take it out and wash it. A broken earbud is strewn about, I use it to listen to podcasts while I multi-task or music when I want to connect to disconnect.<\/p>\n
The nostalgia part relates to the much needed and healing vacation I took three weeks ago. In doing this assignment I see that I have been holding on to remnants from this trip, maybe to postpone a full reintegration to new normal. There is a credit card receipt from a shoe store. The date and time-stamp instantly transport me to that day, as I walked aimlessly and carefree in Spain and stopped to buy sandals. You can see a couple of rocks that I picked up at a vineyard. It was such a perfect day that I needed a tangible object to hold as a way to physically feel my presence and gratitude in the moment.<\/p>\n
Not shown (because I used it as is a camera), is my phone and the most important item that encompasses my relation to text technology. My phone connects me to every part of my life via a text interface. I use my phone to work, to pay for everything, to socialize, to schedule, to research, to retain data, to process information, to predict outcomes and make decision.<\/p>\n
Should archeologist come across my untouched bag in a distant future perhaps their overall impression of its contents would be: \u201cinteresting, random and messy\u201d, and that would be fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
About me: My name is Johanna, but most people call me Jo. I am in my mid 40’s and live in Ottawa with two very energetic but loving daughters (aged 6 and 8) and two boy cats who are very therapeutic when said daughters get into mischief. I am instructional designer in the air navigation … <\/p>\n