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.

Husband's on the phone with the recruiter. Everyone cross your fingers that it might be a good job.

Yeah, I can see that. Both ways. Eta: Station 11, that is

Job~ma for Mr Dana!

My twins were born exactly 11 months before Pi-Boy so I was not surprised to find out that he is approaching nine years old.

My family is supposed to go to Miami for spring break on Sunday but we are wavering. We aren't so much afraid of getting sick, we just want to be sick at home with our things and our people around us. Getting quarantined in a strange and expensive place seems like a real risk when you are traveling with two kids. I'm not sure what we will do.

My university is teaching one-hour seminars on how to take lectures online from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm all this week. We are supposed to find one that we can attend. I'm wondering whether our 44,000 students will be returning from spring break. The administration isn't saying much at this point, but if enough universities take step of suspending classes it gets to be a liability issue for those who don't.