That must be a blow, for Matilda and you guys. I am so sorry.

Thanks for the nail "tips" everyone. I wasn't sure if acetone worked on acrylic. I really just need to get my thumbs and index fingers short.

Sophia, I am going to have to remove my gel coating in a week. Your nails will be thin, but buff them and put on a clear coat until the grow back out.

It must feel like Disaster Voltron for Matilda -- sheltering in place, getting into none(!!!!!????) of her HS choices, AND her mom getting sick.

Good thing she has parents to advocate for her. Trying to find out what the fuck was wrong with the selection process for ALL of those schools, especially a review to see if some test score was recorded wrongly so the calculations as to whether she'd even get considered was below some threshold?

forgot to take my meds this weekend. Turns out a respiratory pandemic is not a great time to not take allergy and anti-anxiety meds. Little anxiety attack this morning as I was all congested and couldn't get a deep breath.

le sigh

have taken meds, a hot steamy shower, and put some vapo rub on my chest. All seems better now.

I went with water instead of coffee this morning. My stomach is a bit wobbly, I am assuming stress related, and I think the acidity is not gonna help.

Back to work. I am going to do some adjustments to the home set up today, so my computer is higher and I don't have to look down all day.

We got permission to run into the office long enough to grab a few things to make wfh easier today, so I'm going to rescue my poor plants and get my keyboard and mouse and probably a notebook and dayplanner. Exciting!

Yay, plant rescue, -t! I was just thinking of the poor seedlings that ltc and her classmates were growing.

This situation seems to be bringing out both the worst and the best in people. Jim Bakker is pushing colloidal silver as a cure; seemingly, all it does it turn you blue (literally). So if you see someone with blue skin, they've been taking the silver. Either that or they're re-enacting Braveheart.

Trying to find out what the fuck was wrong with the selection process for ALL of those schools

It's a lottery, and she didn't win.

All of her friends got into their schools. About half her friends that applied to SOTA got in.

We'll go through the second round after various people decline their school choices (as we are about to do).

Have completed my pre-dawn raid on my cubicle. Spoils include a keyboard, mouse, steno pad, and 3-month calendar, a couple of pens, and my poor bedraggled plants. Zero humans encountered.

Second-round luck to Matilda! That all seems really complicated. Hey, Hec, did y'all actually take possiession of your new bed, am I remembering that right?