on what life will look like in 2021.
Of all the personal development opportunities presented by quarantine — knitting, baking sourdough, starting a TikTok — there is none so user-friendly as talking to yourself.
Sue Elliott-Nicholls, 52, an actress in Britain, had spent plenty of time listening to her own voice before the pandemic; she makes her living doing voice-overs for television. But when lockdown robbed her of co-worker banter and gossip spilled at the local pub, she began to fill her days with private chatter.
She didn’t always have much to say. “My conversations with myself are proper dull,” she said. “I’ll be like, ‘Should I wash my socks today?’ ‘Yeah, go on, do it today.’”