Thank you everyone who is reaching out to folks.

I need an actual, physical hug from a person like you wouldn't believe. I'm not normally a much of a hugger, but damn this year.

I am a hugger and I already wasn’t getting enough before the pandemic hit. I did hug my family lots and lots while I was in that bubble.

smonster as all one word is the correct pronunciation. IRL I have college friends who call me s[lastname] as one word because I was abroad sophomore year and email was very new and that was my email address. And then my second girlfriend started calling me smonster, and when I joined here it seemed appropriate.

I have reached out to T to see if there are any financial obligations we can help with but haven’t heard back yet.

Oh yeah, Liese knew before most of y’all because she’s my accountability buddy and I had to tell someone.

I've always said "smonster" --is there any other way? Holli's been informed. And yes Javachik, I am on DWS, too.

I've always said smonster. I even said it out loud to my daughter today, when I was explaining the list. Smonster, in your head is it "S Monster" or "smonster"?

I change it around a lot, but it usually has Ellen in it somewhere.

Sail, I did search for "Ellen" on Twitter, last night, but I got another Ellen I knew wasn't you, and a whole bunch of blue check Ellens, who are perfectly fine Ellens I'm sure, but they don't have that certain Ellenosity.

Callaluna is on FB. I just looked for her and couldn't find her, so I'll try again. Billy tea is too. David, do you think Knut/ the other David knows amy?

Cindy, I think we xposted. Scroll up a bit.

I remember when I first met Amych, and she asked how I pronounced my handle. Calli is actually an abbreviation of Calligrafiti, the pseud I chose when I wrote my first fanfic. I realized when Amych asked that I thought of myself as the full Calligrafiti (pronounced calli gra FEE tee) and had never considered how someone would pronounce the shortened version. So we got to laugh over me not knowing how to pronounce my own name. For the record, it’s CAL lee.

Sail is on Facebook. I can reach out to her if no one else has.

Good morning.

Horrible thing I learned today:

There are (at least) three sequels to The Cutting Edge.

If I have to know this, so do you.

Carry on with the rest of your day the best you can.

I'm torn, because I don't know what The Cutting Edge is. Do I look it up? Probably not.

Pretty sure people pronounce JenP as Jen-pee, not jenp in one syllable, because that's hard.

Today, I'll be writing some letters and cards.