The Coronavirus panic has stepped closer to home: the San Jose branch of DH's school is Going WFH. I've seen only one person wearing a mask so far, but he was quite elderly. Interesting times, yo.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Katerina Bee - Mar 09, 2020 8:05:51 pm PDT #17283 of 30019
Herding cats for fun
Fiona - Mar 09, 2020 10:18:35 pm PDT #17284 of 30019
Oh yes, very interesting.
C.'s school has been closed since Friday because one child was infected. They're planning on reopening next Monday but I don't see that happening.
I was supposed to be meeting a friend tomorrow but we had to cancel because she spent the half-term holiday in the South Tyrol in northern Italy. Yesterday she told me she has developed flu-like symptoms and is being tested for Covid-19 today.
The new semester starts next week but I really can't see that happening either. If I don't hold my lectures, I don't get paid. I do have a job today, but I'm reckoning on it being the last for a while.
Fun times.
Shir - Mar 09, 2020 11:56:24 pm PDT #17285 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Cash, continued~ma. I am so sorry.
The new semester starts next week but I really can't see that happening either
Same. Israel is now asking from anyone who's been abroad to self quarantine, advising anyone over 60 not to leave the house unless needed, and forbids events of over 5,000 people to take place. And my campus has way more than 5,000 in it everyday.
Cat is slowly improving. Thank you for the ~mas and keep 'em coming. Love him to bits, but this is exhausting and so, so messy.
-t - Mar 10, 2020 3:30:18 am PDT #17286 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh no, Fiona!
Laura - Mar 10, 2020 3:38:10 am PDT #17287 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
{{All of us}} What a mess. When I get discouraged I do think, don't lick the doorknobs, and that still makes me giggle. The handling of this by the idiot in charge is beyond frustrating.
Trump's brand new Chief of Staff self-quarantined amuses me. You know he has to be super annoyed about that.
NY showing 143 cases and FL 14. That only means that one state is testing and sharing results. My sister is visiting and flies back to NY on Thursday. She is 72 and packing clorox wipes. She said everyone was wiping down their seats and areas on her plane flight here. We can't talk her into staying because she rightly points out it isn't going to get better any time soon.
Laura - Mar 10, 2020 3:38:12 am PDT #17288 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
double post!
Jesse - Mar 10, 2020 3:44:43 am PDT #17289 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
{{All of us}} What a mess.
That's about the shape of it.
Nilly - Mar 10, 2020 4:12:11 am PDT #17290 of 30019
Swouncing
I'm self-quarantining.
So here I am alone in a room with a computer and internet access, and lots of exams to grade but it's a holiday (Purim) that I can't really celebrate as it should and I can't bring myself to work during it. And suddenly I remember that there's something I can do with that computer thing and that internet access.
So I skipped.
-t - Mar 10, 2020 4:21:43 am PDT #17291 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nilly! Happy Purim!
billytea - Mar 10, 2020 4:22:55 am PDT #17292 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hi Nilly!