What Happened on May 16, 2020

This prompt comes from a Nicholson Baker essay titled "What Happened on April 29, 1994," which in turn was a contribution to a compilation of 240 essays chronicling a single day. Ander Monson at Diagram has taken up the form and invited writers to submit pieces on particular days, so why not us?

The idea is simple: next Saturday, May 16, pay attention to the day. Take some notes if you like. And then write/make a piece titled "What Happened on May 16, 2020." Send it to me by May 27, and we can try to talk on May 31. If this seems too quick, let me know. But I kinda want to jumpstart things, you know?

You can create a frame of some kind - poetic phrases, stream-of-consciousness, a numbered list, an hour-by-hour accounting, a time-lapse in words or images: any frame will do. Baker's frame is deceptively simple!

Other thoughts: The great writer Christa Wolf chronicled each September 27th for 50 years.... One of the participants in Monder's project quoted Annie Dillard: How we spend our day is of course how we spend our lives... 

Oh yeah: maybe you finished up the Who's Counting piece based on an algorithm. Send that along too! But don't get bogged down!