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.
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.
I am at a school of nursing that already does a lot of online education (not virtual- true, thought out online education), but the newest nurses still really need to do labs and clinical. So we are doing all of our lecture type content online and figureing out how to do labs with masks and face sheilds and everything. They are back at clinical right now seeing patients, again with PPE.
amyparker, you did a good thing for connie and whoever may be looking for her as part of their family.
...nope. Still have a visual image of cartoon me fleeing from genetic testing. I'd have had a pleasant, quiet life had it not been for family,fore and aft. Don't want more.
Still have a visual image of cartoon me fleeing from genetic testing.
Same, but because it's the one tinhat conspiracy theory I actually entertain: I worry the data will be sold to whatever company dangles enough money in front of the testing companies. In other words, I watched the movie
Gattica
and went, "Yep, that's pretty plausible".
Yeah, everything about this new wide-spread genetic testing creeps me out.
