That’s amazing news Teppy! Kick ass!

I’m kinda glad basically all those costumes were sold out. Some were amazing, but I haven’t got a spare $500 laying around!

My problem is that as (a) an extrovert and (b) a person who lives alone and has hugged people like three times since March, I’m going more than a little bananas. I am sad I won’t see my family for the holidays but can live with it. But I am so fucking touch-starved, and human-deprived. (Even for me, zoom calls are not the same). Also I’ve eaten way too much sugar and am basically addicted and can’t stop, and am seriously out of shape. Which I don’t love. But see again “so few pleasures in life right now” but also “don’t want to emerge from pandemic and have nobody recognize me”

Teppy, that's fantastic! I totally would have yelled down the phone at that news.

The feminine of Emeritus is Emerita.

flea beat me to it. (People who edit, check me on this: usage depends on the context of where it's being used and the preference of the person being referred to, yes?)

I am so fucking touch-starved, and human-deprived.

meara, I'm so sorry.

I told a friend that in some ways, our Zoom yoga classes are making awareness of touch deprivation worse: a handful of us had reached the "I'ma flop over in your lap for hairpats while I bitch about work for 10 minutes" stage, and seeing them several times a week on a screen drives home the "We're not in the same place, we have no idea when we can safely do this thing in the same place again" reality of it all. A couple of my regular classmates have moved off-island to be closer to their children - I'm cheering that for them and keeping the "Am I ever going to see you again?" wails to myself, but this stinks on ice and I hate it.

ION, living in the future: I kinda feel like USB powered heated fingerless gloves are silly, but my hands become chilled and painful when I'm working, and I need to keep being able to type in spite of that.

Teppy, that's awesome news!

Hi Aims! Good to see your pixels.

Steph., I’m glad you’re getting some good news on the family and finances fronts.

"Is this real? Did this happen? Is anyone else seeing this?"

Well done, Tepalina! They recognize your worth.

meara could you expand a little social pod if you and a committed group all got tested together and stuck to it? I think that would work.

The Amiable Alliance is reminding me of the the Pink Gingham Junta.

Amy Emerita sounds like a superhero. So I dig that.

Even before reading in WaPo that 130 agents have been quarantined, I kept thinking that they really use some top notch psychological screening on those agents. Top notch.

Yeah, in their (literal) shoes I'm quite sure my clumsy feet would have long ago resulted in a tumble down one of those grand staircases for us both. "Oopsie!"

The Amiable Alliance has spoken.

All hail AMYTH, Amy Emerita! First of her name, The Unbitten, Queen of the Corset and the First Frog, Khalessi of the Great Move-Out Weekend Recycling Crew, Breaker of Couches, and Mother of the Amiable.