'Why We Fight'
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.
Oh! And I'm very bummed that the city stuff that Somerville shut down includes the libraries. I don't know if Cambridge (the main branch is two blocks from work) is also shutting them down or not.
It's not like I don't have two shelves+ of unread books, and a ton of other wonderful books that I could reread at my leisure.
Those of you who don't need to use the libraries at this time - stay away! Use ebooks! Read the books in your house!
We're open to be a safe place for people (including children out of school) who don't have any other place to be, and to provide internet/wifi for those who don't have that at home (and, for example, are trying to be schooled remotely.)
Of course they still deny being tested, but if there ever was karma deserved both of them would get this virus. Don't want them dead because I want them to lose the election in a landslide and be hauled off to jail, but them both getting super sick for a time would be just dandy. Then perhaps some competent professionals could handle this crisis.
If I wake up one morning and Nancy Pelosi is President because those two morons died in the night I reserve the right to spend fifteen minutes dancing around and laughing maniacally.
I'm right next to New Rochelle. My official self-soothing mantra is that we KNOW about their cases because the county has bread and we can deal with it as well as anyone can for the same reason.
My mom and her garbage immune system are in Jersey for my niece's birthday and we're trying to find the safest way to get her back to Louisville. Wish us luck.
I have to give a shout-out to anyone who lives with anxiety all the time, because I've never been anxious like this before, and I hate it! How do you all function???
Sometimes I don't!
The upside is that the current situation isn't making me any more anxious than I already was; it's just shifting things around a bit.
I'm definitely moving into not functioning levels of anxiety.
One of my students from last semester, who is anxious in general, was super anxious about avoiding mosquitos for fear of getting eastern equine encephalitis, which was the horrible disease supposedly going around these parts late last summer. I can't imagine what she's thinking about these days.
My normal reaction to anxiety is to hole myself up in my apartment, so this time it's kind of working out for me.
Relatedly, I may have picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue smoking.