Stay safe, everyone.

That is very good news, Cashmere! I know it takes some time for his system to fix, but hopefully he will stay confined until that happens.

Talked with one of my medical office managers. She is a wreck from the insantiy. Extremely short staffed between people out sick because they deal with sick people all day, and now short because of people stuck home until they figure out day care for their kids. Two of her doctors had to take sick days too. They treat too many elderly patients to bring kids to work. She told me she doesn't want to hear that I went out of the house. She said the kids will have to do that for me. I never have to worry with all the worriers doing it for me apparently.

She is 100% in agreement that canceling events and sports and so forth is perfectly sound and reasonable, but WTF with the toilet tissue hoarding!

I am LOLing about doing a table read with tech staff. I think costumes could maybe dour!

Cash, so glad to hear your brother is getting his meds! I hope he gets on an even keel.

day drinking while I clean. blood-orange cider.

Cash - so glad he is getting meds. lack of access to meth seems a good plan all around.

Steph - jesus, your poor friend. glad they got it fast.

I think I am having anxiety just with so many people talking about self-isolating. Reality is I can go days inside no problem, but so many people talking about it is making me itchy. super extrovert fears.

Matthew and his mom and their dysfunction is going to drive me to drink or online gambling or something I don't know.

Someone keep me from treating my anxiety by buying all the things on the internet.

Just got an email from the mayor of our city. Long list of closings of course. This is still high season here so bunches of events and street fairs and such. The nice part was the list of 30 county schools that will be open for distribution of meals. That didn't surprise me since they do the same thing on normal school breaks. I love living in a blue county.

Apparently that surgeon is one of the best in several counties. What a stroke of luck!

Now THERE is a pun. My best wishes for your friend and his recovery. It can be a rough road and it's wonderful news that it is starting off so well.

My brother is finally getting medicated in jail! I hope the lack of access to meth and the medication will help.

I'll take heartbreaking statements for 800, Alex... You and your family have very much been in my thoughts. This is simply mindbending. It makes me think of Marvin Gaye and then I feel grateful that everyone survived. Hopefully the public attention has been dying down and you can all heal with some privacy.

In this corner of the world, television and film productions shut down one by one and now they all appear to have stopped. The law firm has a project I can work on at home if I get quarantined or our building gets shut down and, for now, I'm going into the office for my three days a week. I'm skipping morning rush hour (not that there is much of one anyway) and quiet midtown is a very spooky thing. Mom will be flying home on Sunday and it's not great, but it appears to be our best option.

At my house three are working from home and two of us are still going into empty offices on empty Metro North trains. Two of us have asthma and it's kicking in so we spend a lot of time saying "It's just asthma!" whenever we cough in public. One of my roommates picked up Scott tissue ("There was nothing else?" "It was cheaper!") and is being abused savagely for it.

askye and sj - can you both go color something?