In other news, one of my students had another one of her professors e-mail me to see if I was dead...

Because the professor's email would get to you if you're dead, but hers wouldn't? :P

My roommate went to the ER and got tested yesterday, but was told 2-5 days to get results. Who even knows.

I don't have any place to go. I haven't seen mom because I was already worried about exposing her to stuff.

I could drive down to FL and stay at the beach but that doesn't really help anyone. Not to mention I'm supposed to go back to work next Tuesday. I don't know if they will happen. I also lost debit card and had to get a replacement and that will take a week.

My computer is in its own room so I'm pretty much just in here or the bedroom.

Even if this wasn't a pandemic situation and I wanted to break up or move out it would be really hard. Most of the shared loving options i can find are either out of my price range, sketchy, or college students .

Yeah, that's hard, askye. Protect yourself as best you can.

We had one of the residents go into an extended crying session today when she found out the little resident kitchen on the first floor wasn't stocking snacks or juice any more (don't want to encourage them to congregate -- I think it's wrong, but it's above my pay grade).

It wasn't one of those angry meltdowns, more like the last straw in a world gone strange and awful. The Wellness staffers were on it and ended up calling in one of her kids to talk and calm her down.

Me, I'm pro-snacks for all residents, it gives them back a little control over a slice of their lives at a time when comfort is hard to find.

askye, I'm sorry that it is working out like this. I really think you might consider going to your Mom or your Dad if work doesn't start up again. Taking a pause with Matthew's family (if it was just the two of you, that would be a different thing) might be needed.

I, too, would like to hear from Gud. I expect the work he does can mostly be WFH, it's just his family that may be freaking out, particularly his wife's counseling business, and how the kids are coping with school screwed up.

Because the professor's email would get to you if you're dead, but hers wouldn't?

The transition to online learning has so far not be an easy one. Part of it is the sheer volume of material that is being uploaded then streamed. My community college has turned out to be far better at it than the university. That may be partly because they do more of it normally, so the tools needed have been integrated in a much more transparent way than the university even though it's the same tools in the same state system. I spent a couple of hours today trying to get get my screencasts to stream at the uni instead of getting vague error messages. It had taken me all of about 5 minutes to do the same job at the CC.

I'm sorry you are in the middle of that, askye! Sounds miserable.

A lot of this depends on work I really really don't want to actually go to either of my parents because I don't want to expose them to anything at all. But I also don't want to drive from SC to FL to stay at the beach where there is no internet (although I would take my phone) and deal with getting food and having limited things to do .

I've been feeling like I shouldn't have moved in with Matthew and now I feel trapped, it's too far away to move back in with mom and work in Greenville (roughly 1.5 hours one way drive from her house to the store) and I can't transfer back to the other store (no open positions) and jobs are hard to find anywhere. I do love Matthew and there are some great things about us but he isn't motivated enough to change. I feel like when we met we were both more in the same place and I just moved on past that quickly. I'm not sure what to do or how to do it.

and because my real life has always been so isolated and devoid of support people it's not like I have any kind of support or know someone I can go crash with for awhile or something like that. One thing I wanted to do this year was get my credit card debt back under control so I could have a few more options but now I can only control myself and do the best I can and figure out from there.

I think these coconut caramel Oreos were the smartest decision I made today.

Oh, askye. What an incredibly difficult place to be in, physically and emotionally. I'm so sorry you're wrestling with all this.

Oh, askye, that's so hard.