Checking In

[twistedchick]

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

Poll #23702 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 87

How are you doing?

I am OK
76 (88.4%)

I am not OK but I don't need help right now
9 (10.5%)

I could use some help
1 (1.2%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
40 (46.0%)

One other person
25 (28.7%)

More than one other person
22 (25.3%)

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

[sylvanwitch]

I'm okay, but man am I tired. I've had to convert from classroom teaching to online courses, and the frontload of prep work to make that happen was immense. I've only just finished today, so now I'm staring down a backlog of grading. And this is only for the two and a half weeks we had left before break begins. Ugh. Anyway, tired. But managing.

[goss]

Oh man, I feel you! I too have a backlog of marking to finish still. /o\ And am dreading having to start from scratch with restructuring lessons for online teaching.

this might be whiny...

[velvetglovefic]

My birthday is tomorrow, and obviously it will not be a typical celebration. I planned to make myself a cake, and I'm still going to do that, but I was wanting to dress up and go to our favorite restaurant, where they treat me like a celebrity and do me special favors, and I'm just not gonna get that this year.

I've scaled my expectations for birthdays back to a celebratory bare minimum over the last few years thanks to myriad friendship fails, and it's childish, but it just feels unfair that I can't even have the simple, unadorned dinner out B and I would have liked to enjoy together.

I'm sure I will have a good time with B tomorrow anyway. I'm not sick, I'm not in a hospital, for the time being we're getting a paycheck, and by the time you're my age, you're not supposed to care about birthdays anyway, I guess. I do though. I want my day to be magic.

Re: this might be whiny...

[mecurtin]

Can you get takeout from Favorite Restaurant?

...wtf?

[we_are_spc]

I went from being OK this morning, to now wanting to cry. And I kinda did a lot today, comparatively speaking.

I mopped the kitchen floor; made two cups of coffee; cleaned and reorganized one of my two closets and in the process found some clothes I wanted to donate. ... Oh, and I'll probably clean the cat box before I go to bed tonight.

But one of my housemates is not getting better, and I had to go out in a face mask today...and it/s just all starting to hit me.

I'm an extravert. I'm touch deprived, and...as much as I love books, I need a variety of voices right now.

Having headmates helps. Hoo boy howdy does it!) and is probably the only reason I'm not even more stir crazy, but I still need physical closeness, y'know?

-T~

[feng_shui_house]

Still sewing masks and writing crackfic against Coronavirus. Today I only managed a very short silly fic in which Captain Underpants uses his secret power against the virus, but I sewed more masks.

I got tired and had to nap, lost good sewing light time. My eyes don't like sewing at night, I mess up.

Re: this might be whiny...

[we_are_spc]

I feel you. I got lucky on mine, but I was still upset that my friend's finances werent flexible enough to let us go out on the 13th. Like...we're both blind; he's in Cuyahoga county, and I'm in Lake County (Ohio)...and we don't get to see each other much anyway, so I was really looking forward to that. Then the 'Stay at Home" order came and even the first week of April plan we had hit the floor with a resounding thud.

Here are lots of hugs. Happy early birthday, too.

-T~

Re: ...wtf?

[longmagpieroads]

I get you. I wish virtual hugs could feel like physical ones do.

[rhi]

Well, I have to say: my green line (rail line converted for pedestrians and bikes) has gotten much more scenic. A lot of gym rats who can't gym were out today as I biked past them. Usually, if I see guys with six packs and hip cuts, they're on Tumblr. I will take my silver linings where I can get them.

Re: ...wtf?

[we_are_spc]

Me, too.

I need one so badly. I'm a massage therapist, and like independent contractors and gig workers everywhere, I've had my jobs postponed. To only the gods know when. I've been assured they still want me, it's just a matter of when.

In the meantime, I've gone red. Again. We can't seem to get out of that red this year. :(

-T~

Re: ...wtf?

[mific]

This isn't what you meant, but here are some lovely voices, and it's upcheering. https://youtu.be/JTVXEGIS3LE
Also see the icon.

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck with your restructuring. I hope it goes smoothly for you. Also, it's nice to share the misery; I'm not sure my admin has any idea how much work this is. *sighs*

Re: ...wtf?

[we_are_spc]

Awwhe, group hugging cats. (Thank you for a bit of text description) <3 I love kitties.

Also, that is gorgeous. Got any more.

I'ma need to branch back out into my less-listened to genre for this thing. Choral and classical are two of those. Especially of the piano variety.

-T~

Re: ...wtf?

[mific]

Oh gawd I forgot to check if that icon had a text description! It’s 3 ginger cats with the outer two smooching the inner one. :)

Zoom

[mecurtin]

I thought Zoom had expanded their free-ness for the epidemic? But they still won't let me schedule a group hangout for 4 (devices; 7 people) that lasts more than 40 minutes without upgrading. What is the best way to "drink with the gang"?

Re: ...wtf?

[we_are_spc]

Awhe. The cute, it is overload. :)

-T~

Re: Zoom

[libitina]

I've had decent luck with Google Meet

Re: this might be whiny...

[velvetglovefic]

We can, and we might! Tomorrow I'll decide if that's what I want vs eating food we already have. Takeout is still pretty expensive, and it doesn't come with the dining room experience of seeing all our favorite servers, so it might be better (and safer) to eat what's in the fridge.

Re: this might be whiny...

[velvetglovefic]

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

So much disappointment, so many plans falling through. There are so many people really suffering right now, but smaller suffering is important to acknowledge too. So many of the things that buoy people's moods are just off limits for the foreseeable future, and it's difficult to accept.

I hope you and your friend are able to meet up in the not-too-distant future.

Re: this might be whiny...

[kathmandu]

Happy Birthday!

Sympathies on the blocked plans. We are all having to do without so many things we didn't expect to, and it is totally legitimate to grieve a bit.

[kathmandu]

I read some of your fics today. Nice and cheering.

Re: this might be whiny...

[velvetglovefic]

Thank you for the birthday wishes! I think it's legit too. But at least I'm a full grown person--I can just imagine the disappointment if I was a child missing out on birthday extravagance during this quarantine.

[feng_shui_house]

Oh good, glad it provided a bit of uplift. :^)

Re: this might be whiny...

[torncurtain]

Happy Birthday for tomorrow!

[wyomingnot]

Things have improved here, but they're so awful everywhere else. Damn Cheeto is talking about getting back to business in a couple weeks, while we still haven't got a date for school to resume. So I despair for all my friends and family back home.

I didn't answer question one on the poll because honestly, what help can I get? And due to my bipolarness, I might be fine later anyway and feel stupid for feeling this way now.