The Universities here in Texas are still saying we'll be here in person for the fall but, really, they mean the football season. They want that revenue even more than tuition.

Ooops, wrong thread.

I haven't touched anyone since mid-March. Thank goodness for the dog, who wants to crawl on top of me all the time.

I have however seen my sister regularly: we're mostly staying apart, but we walk and bike ride together, and sit on her back patio six feet apart and drink cocktails. We're both being otherwise very cautious.

The only time I've touched anyone since mid March was patting my neighbor on the head to show the cats he's okay, and I washed hands immediately after.

I haven't touched anyone but Jim since the last in-person class at the yoga studio, and that was - early March? Sue shut things down pretty quick; her husband's an MD. Ken has formed a pod with his former roommate and his partner, all of whom live in the same building and are working from home. He also has Melodie, the World's Best Kitten, for company.

The power is back on! I swear, if we move off this island it's going to be because every time a squirrel farts, the lights go out for multiple hours.

In other non-virus news, who would have guessed that all it took to upset 95 years of polite family fictions/mysteries was me doing a metric fuckton of research and persuading three generations of my family to spit in tubes? Several people on Ancestry who did DNA tests to "find out their ethnicity" and never looked at their results again are going to be TERRIBLY surprised if they ever log back in.

Also, the US stops for the "Stand At The Graves of My Ancestors and Berate Them For Their Poor Choices" Tour now include New Mexico as well as Tennessee and Pennsylvania; dates have obviously been postponed due to the virus, but I have promised my grandmother that if we all live through this, I will pack a lunch and a chair for her and we'll drive out to her dad's grave, and she can express her feelings about his abandoning the family when she was 2.

yeeps! family drama.

Wow, amyparker! Congratulations, I guess? Sounds like quite a story.

23 and me found another distant but not that distant cousin for me, and this one has my mother's maiden name. My mom is convinced we should not be actually related to that branch of the family (my grandfather was adopted by my great grandmother's second husband and took his last name but her first husband was on his birth certificate). Per the data gathered, cousin's family and my family both passed through Weed which would have been a pretty small community so maybe we are related some other way and the last name is a coincidence.

I haven't touched anyone since early/mid March. The only times it bothers me is the couple of times I have been to visit my parents (all of us masked and maintaining distance if inside, mostly masked and maintaining distance outside as well) and I couldn't give them a hug when I got there or when I left. I do appreciate that Miss Kitty is pretty cuddly.

Timelies all!

It's been one of those days. Mr. S didn't go to sleep until late(after 10) last night, and has been extra annoying for most of the day today.

Oh, msbelle, soooooooo much drama!

I'm sorry, Sheryl.

Thank you, amyparker for the info for Connie.