Aw, damn. My Christmas gift for my parents was tickets to a Symphony concert at the end of this month. Retroactive gifting fail.
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
aurelia - Mar 13, 2020 5:13:01 pm PDT #17680 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
sj - Mar 13, 2020 5:13:42 pm PDT #17681 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Maria, I've been meaning to ask you how your relatives in Italy are doing?
Topic!Cindy - Mar 13, 2020 5:13:50 pm PDT #17682 of 30019
What is even happening?
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse.
It's a shame Natter isn't closer to turning over.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 13, 2020 5:16:06 pm PDT #17683 of 30019
What is even happening?
Oh a whole bunch of you posted while I was catching up.
Maria, I echo sj's question.
aurelia, one of my older son's gifts to his GF was Red Sox tickets early in the season. Will the symphony honor it later? That is, are they shutting down for now?
amyparker - Mar 13, 2020 5:20:41 pm PDT #17684 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
aurelia, hopefully they will follow the lead of the Seattle Symphony and give folks the choice of putting the tickets on account, exchanging them, donating them or offering a full refund.
aurelia - Mar 13, 2020 5:54:02 pm PDT #17685 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
At the moment it's "Please await further communication during the next 7-14 days regarding any postponed events. As soon as we receive updates regarding each event, you will be contacted via email regarding next steps." We'll see. Maybe they'll reschedule for sometime in the summer.
Maria - Mar 13, 2020 5:55:06 pm PDT #17686 of 30019
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Maria, I've been meaning to ask you how your relatives in Italy are doing?
Scared, but mostly fine. The ones that are up north took it seriously from the start, and the ones in the south are all ok. This is one time it pays to be from southern Italy, since the virus doesn't have a foothold there. The government locked down the whole country when it became evident that the southerners who lived in the north were leaving to go back home, so they stopped the literal invasion in its tracks. The hospital and health system south of Rome is in no way, shape, or form capable of dealing with even a 10th of the cases the north is handling. It would be catastrophic.
Everyone I know is following the government mandate to the letter. It's actually making for some amusing FB posts since they have nothing but time on their hands.
Cashmere - Mar 13, 2020 6:03:34 pm PDT #17687 of 30019
Now tagless for your comfort.
local tavern was full
Pretty sure taverns in Wisconsin will not close unless there is an order from the governor.
It's a good thing there are no Packer games.
Speaking of governor, Wisconsin schools are now officially closed until April 6--three weeks of Spring Break for us.
I'm worried the library will eventually shut down. Most of the libraries in our system are only cancelling programming and outreach.
sj - Mar 13, 2020 6:05:50 pm PDT #17688 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Maria, I'm glad to hear it. I'm not nearly as close with my relatives there, but the one cousin I follow on FB said they are doing well.
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2020 6:07:50 pm PDT #17689 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
One of my students is from Italy, and she was telling me today that she's concerned about her family there. And now I'm concerned about where she's going to go now, since they're closing the dorms and she can't go home. I'm worried about the same thing for a bunch of other international students, too.