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 Monday) now to midnight UT (8pm Tuesday Eastern Time).

Poll #25315 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 46

How are you doing?

I am OK
34 (73.9%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
12 (26.1%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
24 (52.2%)

One other person
16 (34.8%)

More than one other person
6 (13.0%)

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

[fred_mouse]

content note: discussions of suicide

So, I've been at a work conference yesterday and today (Western Australia, where this is a relatively safe activity). In yesterday's plenary session, the welcome speaker, without warning, broke into a memorial for the farmers who committed suicide in 2020. Without any irony, or real consideration that anyone in the room might be having difficulties. Without any consideration for who in the room might have lost someone in recent months. And without any real acknowledgement that people might be affected and need something right now. There was a slide about who can be contacted. I managed to not burst in to tears, but it was a bit close. I spent most of the next section of the talks being a bit rattled.

I get the why - this was a prime community gathering for getting this kind of message out. But, ah, shall we say, the implementation could have been better.