They just opened testing for anyone who ants it here,symptoms or not, no referral, your insurance will be charged but if you don't have insurance it's free. I think it''s fairly likely I had a mild case and am now clear and they aren't testing for antibodies so I don't think I'm going to do it unless I develop a reason to.

Hope you hear soon, Theo

MAC CALLED ME!!! HE CALLED ME NOT ACTUALLY NEEDING ANYTHING. he was frustrated trying to get hep from his school on registered. and he laughed and joked with me AND HE ASKED ABOUT VISITING!!!!!!! oh bless. I mean he is still a mess, but my god I love him so much and he just made my week. It was so good to hear his voice.

So great!

It's such a cluster, with revenue way down AND expenses way up!

yep, same for government. i talked with my co-worker today about what she has been doing. Apparently every department has their budgets returned and is being told to cut cut cut. We had juts sent in our final budget and gotten approval when I started, so this is every department re-evaluating next fiscal year.

I had been venting to her about my mountains of paperwork from that one department and she was welcome to the distraction because she is in her own nightmare of work.

I am glad to be taking something super time consuming and monotonous off their plate so they can deal with the budget.

YAY Msbelle that is awesome!

yay msbell for Mac calling!!

home lab kits we'd been hoping to deploy for the course are no longer on the table because the the state university system is apparently broke, at least as far as getting equipment goes

Yikes, that's going to be rough!

Fingers crossed the test is negative, Theo!

Good job, Mac!

I was just sitting down to bitch that I'm switching from, "Oh, I'll just put your dirty dishes in the empty dishwasher" to "let's see how long you'll leave your dirty dishes..." I was going to resent this even more since I don't HAVE children and everything...

When I heard innocent roommate hitting "Oh, I'll just put..." so I jumped up and helped him.

We left the hand washing, however. We have some edge.

In What's Actually Upsetting Me news, however, my mother's older sister has been hospitalized with COVID.

My father is one of eight, my mother one of four. I have a lot of loved ones in their sixties and seventies. We knew this was going to happen and now it has. The other shoe dropping is no relief as there are so many more shoes. My mother is 800 miles away and shattered. My aunt is another 900 hundred and there is nothing anyone can do.

She hasn't been intubated, so we're hanging onto that.

My mother, God love her, is doing an excellent job of not leaving the house.

Love to your family, Trudy

Latest word from the County is that restaurants can potentially re-open late next week, that is still being decided. News reports were premature.

Thinking of your family, Trudy, and wishing the best.

msbelle, so YAY! for Mac and you. I'm smiling all over my face for you.

Trudy, lots of ~ma to your aunt and family. This is so difficult.

And yay, Mac! good human beingness.

In sadder news, my sister and her partner had to put to sleep one of their dogs this week. The dog was only five but with lots of health issues. In the last month there has been a deterioration to the point where the dog hallucinated most of the time and banged her head and limbs repeatedly into walls and objects. They tried every possible treatment, but there was no choice but to put her to sleep. The situation is heartbreaking.

Health~ma for your aunt, Trudy.

I'm sorry about the poor dog, Shir.