@elianagilrodriguez 

Founder of Gil Rodriguez 

Los Angeles, California 

How are you living the quarantine: fears and dreams? 

I’ve been staying home for over two months now. I’ve definitely had bad days when I’m anxious or overwhelmed, but overall I feel very grateful. I was able to move my business’s main operations to my home and keep that going which has been a blessing. I’ve gone through so many quarantine phases: The elaborate cooking phase, the nostalgic day-dream phase (where I spent all day in my head thinking of Mediterranean vacations and great dinner parties), the crying phase, the trash tv phase... right now I’m in a Star Wars phase. 

What is your soundtrack? 

It’s all over the place. A lot of sad-girl pop. I’ve randomly been getting really into reggaeton. I also found this playlist called “Chinese Restaurant Music” which is basically just a lot of bamboo flute instrumentals - I listen to that one in the bath and pretend to be at the spa. I really miss cheap Asian spas.