So good to hear! I was worried you would’ve jumped to a new gig and it might’ve fallen through —

Mom is okay. A weird silver lining is that the family has somehow all intrinsically learned at the same time that we don’t need Dad’s permission to be together, and Mom, Chris, Imogene and I have been having multiple group conferences a week, timed around her days off.

She keeps lamenting how she wasn’t supposed to be working full time right now, and I really feel for her. Miraculously, despite having to reuse the same mask throughout each week, she’s healthy and well. Lucky she’s in the lab away from patients.

Natasha is working out great! It was a great benchmark of progress to recount so many of the things to her in minutes that originally steamrolled me for weeks before.

It definitely has been weird, but she has been really insightful in my dealings with the Kuhns at the onset of the pandemic.

Now, the biggest issue she helping me sort through something arguably more contagious than COVID-19 — groupchats initiated by insecure gay men who refuse to acknowledge the reality of what is going on in the world. 😜

School’s … going. It’s been too many concurrent tectonic shifts in too many disparate areas of life to do it all gracefully.

They’re offering a lot of flexibility w deadlines, which I’m riding down to the hilt. They switched to pass/fail grading too, to make it easier on everyone.

My head’s not in the game, and I probably won’t get much clarity of mind til I know how many people Kevin’s company is letting go tomorrow.