Elmhurst in Queens was what my student mentioned.

Zen - I think they are waving things like that in MD, may be the same in VA.

Yes, we can go out for "essentials".

My ex-fiancee lives down the street from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. He says it looks apocalyptic and he has started to believe in conspiracy theories. DMORT has large trucks backed up to take the bodies away because the hospital has no room for them. DMORT is an apt acronym for Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams, a thing that I didn't even know existed.

That just sounds awful.

In much lighter news, I am glad I spent a lot of money getting my hair done on the last possible day, because otherwise I would be VERY TEMPTED to cut and/or color it myself.

I've been trying to grow my shaved sides out, so technically I don't need a haircut for a while...but they're just at that "long enough to wave in weird ways and not be weighted down" way and driving me nuts. The real win will be if I don't shave them again (....maybe just one side?)

It's still pretty quiet here on the infection front. Oahu's a bit worse. We don't yet have any documented community spread, but they do. Being friends with the head of the small local hospital, we're getting as good of information as anyone (which is still not as much information as we'd like).

Despite still working full time and having a nearly-10-month-old and 2 cats, I'm going to pick up a foster doggo tomorrow. Because I make Good Choices.

Time Travel Buffista Meetup!

Here we are in 2004, at Kristin's home in Connecticut, will billytea, Trudy, Kate P, DX, Theo, and me.

And here we are a few weeks later in Chicago, when DavidS had his book reading at Quimby's. I see Knut, tommyrot, erinaceous, and Madrigal!

The pictures are teeny tiny; the Internet was a lot smaller back then.

And here we are a few weeks later in Chicago, when DavidS had his book reading at Quimby's. I see Knut, tommyrot, erinaceous, and Madrigal!

That was SO much fun! I wish I knew where Madrigal was. Anaheed was there too.

I need to skype my nephew and then try and text my brother again and see if he will send me a reply.

Got my debit card today and got it activated, realized I need to get my prescription but I'm self quarantining so I realized I can't and it's a controlled substance so someone can pick it up but they can't delivery it. However, I have enough to last me so I'm going to wait it out I guess. Talked to Mom- she had gotten in a minor accident a while back and has a rental car but there was an issue with the the body shop being paid so she wasn't able to get her car back until today. She offered to get my prescription and drop it at the house, thinking it was at the pharmacy up there I used to use but I told her even if it was I wouldn't want her to do that.

Trying to figure out what to do about grocery delivery. instacart employees are striking and after a quick little inventory it would be really helpful to get some things. We have enough but it would run us a bit low and we would end up in the super creative trying to make things work.

Last night we had spaghetti and there were leftovers but we also had leftover ground beef so I ended up making a kind of picadillo over rice. The only fresh veggies I have left are onions, potatoes, shishito peppers, half a bunch of celery and a small head or romaine.

Matthew's brother in law still has a fever, not sure of other symptoms but if it continues tomorrow his sister is going to take him to the doctor. If they test him for covid-19 it will take about 10 days so we will be about through with this.

Matthew's mom got frustrated "we can't stay locked inside all the time" I told her we can and we will and other people don't have a nice sized yard or even a small private outside space so they can't even go out side at all.

And I also realized our mail is an issue. The street used to be a 2 way street and now it's one way but one way where the houses are on the opposite side of the street than works for postal delivery so we have one big bank of boxes like a business does (and we share with the businesses that are in the street in front of us). But we also can't go 2 weeks without checking the mail so I'm not sure what to do.. although we have been getting less and less mail lately.

DH made a grocery run today and the checker reminded him that they have special hours just for senior citizens.

I have not stopped laughing.