Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Tuesday) now to midnight UT (8pm Wednesday Eastern Time).

Poll #24096 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 62

How are you doing?

I am OK
53 (85.5%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
9 (14.5%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
26 (42.6%)

One other person
21 (34.4%)

More than one other person
14 (23.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[wyomingnot]

It's a beautiful day here, and while that doesn't really actually help my mood, it's better than a grey day which does tend to bring me down.

I'm pondering getting a haircut. Salons and barber shops have been open here for almost two months now. There are no active cases in my city either, so. It's reasonably safe. (there are 25 cases in the province though. Which, boo.)

[bktheirregular]

My family are flying from New York to Athens on June 11. This isn't a problem in and of itself; my elderly parents and my brother have been cooped up in an apartment in New York for about three months now, and they're going stir crazy.

They're going to quarantine in Athens for two weeks before going to the place they have in the islands. This is sensible.

Where things go bad is the venue they've chosen for their quarantine: my apartment in Athens. The decision has been made - without my input - that the sensible thing is for them to move in to my apartment for two weeks, and for me to move out and stay with my aunt until they're safe to travel to the islands.

I know a lot of people are being asked to sacrifice in these very difficult times. I know that a lot of people are sacrificing a lot more. But I can't help but feel resentful that I'm effectively being thrown out of my home for several weeks without any say in the matter. And on top of that, I'm being told that I should be thinking of it not as being thrown out of my apartment, but as giving my elderly parents a gift. And that I should be happy for the opportunity.