MSBELLE! Whenever PiGirl declares her love to pink or glitter or both combined I feel like you somehow know. Like the universe hould somehow update you or something.

Also, you've just recently moved, right? Tell me about your new place!

In fact, everybody - I've skipped so much, I don't really know how any of you are doing. Is it too much meMeME to ask you to tell me how you're doing? I've missed y'all!

Although the reason is unfortunate, I am simply delighted to be reading Nilly posts.

I've been visiting with my Florida sister the last few days and will be heading home today. My New York sister has been sick most of her visit, which has been a whole lot of no fun. She is feeling better today and ready to travel back to my house. Maybe even go to the beach!

My babies are now 25 and 28, with the 25 yo and his wife making plans to make me a grandmother. I've reached the appropriate age and grey hair level to allow that to happen. They remain huggy and lovey despite their huge sizes and advanced years.

Hi Nilly!! So good to hear from you!

I'm in Mexico on vacation, chilling and eating tacos and morbidly reading the news...I made the mistake of checking my work email and found that my coworker who is supposed to be covering for me (and there is lots to do) apparently suddenly won't be at work yesterday or today? So I'm annoyed at that and thinking about several urgent issues that probably got dropped and will be a huge headache when I'm back. Grrr.

Nilly!! Your kids sound terrific, and I also hope that boredom is the worst that comes from the virus for you.

I feel that this will resonate: [link]

I'm dealing with one million emails about what is cancelled, what students are doing, what we should be doing, etc. etc., but otherwise just counting down to my own vacation next week.

I feel that this will resonate: [link]

Ha!

DO NOT CHECK THE EMAIL MEARA!!!!

Mmmm, Tacos

I feel like I have been training my whole life for Greetings via Interpretive Dance

Is it wrong that I keep thinking it's time to read Love in the Time of Cholera?

I didn't even like it that much last time I read it. It's just the right title for these days

[I have no news to catch you up on, Nilly. Imagine some apologetic interpretive dance.]

Oh, Laura! They're grownups! Wow.

(And you're going to be such a wonderful grandma! Your future grandchildren are so lucky!)

meara, no! The whole point of vacation is not being bothered by work. Oy. Is there a way for you to minimize those thoughts? Anything that will enable you to actually enjoy your time away and not be bothered by the consequenses?

Jesse! They are terrific. I find myself surprised, on a daily basis, at how lucky we are by getting those two. And I'm saying this completely objectively, of course.

And, yes, the amount of work created by all this uncertainty. Wow. Just the e-mails to notify students of my absence, when it's certain, no questions about it, is so much. And the uncertainty makes for so much more work.

-t, I'm very much in the camp of "no news is good news", so letting me know that you go on your daily routine is great! Thanks!

Is it wrong that I keep thinking it's time to read Love in the Time of Cholera?

Apparently you either definitely should or definitely should not read Station 11 by Emily Mandel right now.