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 #24294 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 52

How are you doing?

I am OK
41 (78.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
10 (19.2%)

I could use some help
1 (1.9%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
23 (45.1%)

One other person
15 (29.4%)

More than one other person
13 (25.5%)

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

[feng_shui_house]

You know, it's ok because I'm not sick, and I have enough money to order food via Instacart & pay my bills and I even have a bit of yard where I can see butterflies and lizards and sometimes cats and birds.

But... it's scary. The local gov. decided things were 'going to level off' so they rescinded most of the orders including the one that told people not to hang around and gossip in crowds when they get coffee. So of course we're worse than before now, the graph is twice as high with 40% more new infections, and the city sends me emails asking me to vote in a poll as to whether it might be a good idea to require people to wear face masks in public. 85% of the recipients say YES!!

And they decided to rip up the road in front of my house in order to replace the main water pipe leading to the disgusting sewer lift station directly across from my house (that was installed decades after my family bought the house, so as the sole survivor, I'm stuck with it.) Any way, they aren't doing it and getting it over with, days, sometimes a week goes by before they return with the trucks and block off the road so I can't even get mail, and then they make noise and mess (great fun finding discarded filthy plastic sheeting, mini booze bottles, dirty gloves and masks, on the verge in front of my house) and do a bit more on the project before vanishing again... they've been at it for so long they've had to have the surveyors come out again and mark the grass/weeds/sidewalks/road where the existing water pipes are, and God PLEASE don't miss the marks showing where the natural gas lines come into my house...)

So, you know, I'm ok, but venting feels good.

I hope everyone else is hanging in there. *HUGGLES*

[hitokage]

At least tomorrow we get our washer and dryer delivered and that'll be one less thing for the chittering weasels in the back of my head? They've been thinking up all the disasters since before we even put in the order and then with the phone number snafu today, things just ... AHHHHHHHH

Having an anxiety disorder sucks. Having social anxiety in the midst of a pandemic no one around here seems to think is still a thing (while it's still VERY MUCH A THING) is even worse.

[lexin]

I hear you about the anxiety. I'm at least in the position that I'm classed as 'vulnerable' and my bosses won't hear about me going back to the office at least until September, but I'm still worried about catching COVID-19 because it could kill me in a very literal kind of way.

[ex_flameandsong751]

I am coming up on the three month anniversary of a breakup, for a relationship I was in for just shy of two years and was going to marry the person. I thought I was doing OK and for the last few days I've been sleeping too much and not wanting to get out of bed, and crying.

I have emergency dental work coming up in a week that I can't put off and, even though the dentist's office practices social distancing and they're good about hygiene, I'm still quietly freaking out as I watch the COVID-19 cases continue to go up and up, as people around here aren't wearing masks anymore, mostly aren't social distancing anymore, aren't taking this seriously, and I am in a high-risk group for COVID-19.

I am tired of not being able to go places anymore, like just to get coffee, because of my risk for COVID-19.

I am terrified of Trump getting re-elected, I am disabled and have fears of what will happen to Social Security, I am queer and I don't at all like the conversion-therapy-support I'm seeing on the Republican platform for 2020. No, I can't just leave the country.

Everything hurts and is scary and I am so, so tired of this.

[kathmandu]

Anniversaries can sneak up on you like that. And everyone's background level of stress right now is higher than it would be in a normal year.

Sending sympathy and solidarity.

[dewline]

Coping well enough today so far. It's Ottawa-Gatineau, on the Ontario-Québec border, in Canada. So case numbers are dropping in fits and starts by the day and week right now. Ford is right-wing, but still has some degree of empathy and customer-service skills AND takes science somewhat seriously. And we still have Trudeau and Dr. Tam.

I'm worried for a lot of my US friends and acquaintances for any number of already named reasons.