Also, I have NOT been keeping up with my reading page

[conuly]

So if something happened, let me know, okay?

Here, take a poll:

Poll #23981 How are you?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 81

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How are you?

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Great, everything's peachy!
11 (13.6%)

Could be better
51 (63.0%)

Something bad has happened
10 (12.3%)

DOOM
7 (8.6%)

Other
8 (9.9%)

Should I check your journal?

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Yes
11 (16.7%)

No, thanks for asking
57 (86.4%)

The Art of Turning Fish into Leather

Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?

The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

Combat experiments reveal fighting techniques of Bronze-Age warriors

Refugee camp image wins food photo contest

The Belgian Grandmothers That Helped Win the War

During the Renaissance, Drinking Wine Was a Fight Against Physics

Why we’re drawing on our sidewalks again

People Have Gone Full 1800s

The Valentine's Day snake puzzle

Hard-to-count Arab Americans urged to prioritize census

How 13 Seconds Changed Kent State University Forever

The Hollywood Vigilante

The Pigeon King and the Ponzi Scheme

Where have all the insects gone?

Traumatized migrant kids were being shot. One school district came up with a plan to save them

The Long, Winding, and Painful Story of Asylum

Desert or sea: Virus traps migrants in mid-route danger zone

How Africa risks reeling from a health crisis to a food crisis

Afghanistan May Soon Have Peace. And the Cost Is Democracy.

The Battle That Chicago Forgot

How Do You Sign ‘Don’t Drink Bleach’? (Apparently, ASL doesn't have a widely-recognized sign for "bleach"? Who knew?)

The Challenge of Treating 2 Epidemics at Once

How I Knew It Was Over

Stymied in Seeking Benefits, Millions of Unemployed Go Uncounted

The Era of the Endless Rent Strike

Women who dare dissent targeted for abuse by Yemen’s rebels

Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift

Jakarta's Trash Mountain

Comments

[elainegrey]

"Everything's peachy" is not how i feel. But so it goes.

[conuly]

*hugs*

[rmc28]

Everything's peachy *apart* from the global pandemic ...

[conuly]

Well, I mean....

[redbird]

I checked both "yes" and "no" for the second question because yes, there's some stuff going on, but nothing major nor seriously bad is happening here.

[conuly]

I feel ya.

[captainsblog]

I'm somewhere closer to 1 than to 2. Yeah, things could be better, but in our lives they could be a lot worse. Which one are YOU, btw?

[conuly]

Well, I'm getting a little sick of my family, but other than that my life has hardly changed at all. There are advantages to being a virtual IRL hermit. (Ironically, this means I'm about the only person who's left the house regularly since mid-March - I go out two or three times a day with the dogs.)

[dorchadas]

I checked both "everything's peachy" and "DOOM" because I personally feel pretty good at the moment, but I'm extremely pessimistic about the societal outlook.

(also checked yes on journal, but it's not urgent, just the combo of peachy and doom)

The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

I love telling people about this! I never made it up there, but next time I go back, I definitely want to so I can tell people I visited Jesus's grave.

[conuly]

I'm extremely pessimistic about the societal outlook.

I never expected interesting times to be so monotonously boring.

[dorchadas]

At least in a movie-style apocalypse, life would be exciting!

Short, but exciting.

[lilly_c]

"Could be better" is fairly accurate for me especially with still going into *work while lockdown is on.
*My job is one that cannot be done from home.

[conuly]

Oh, that's annoying. I hope you stay well.

[lightbird]

I was doing okay last week, had a nice birthday celebration, chatted with friends, then all of a sudden my mood just took a turn for the worse yesterday. I think it's because it was such a nice day out but I didn't go out to enjoy it because everyone was out, and there are still some people around that are just so thoughtless of other people around them.

I hope you and your family are doing well.

[silver_chipmunk]

I don't know for how long you haven't been reading your flist, but I had to have one of my cats put to sleep, so, for me it's yes, something bad happened.

[conuly]

A while now. I've just been swamped.

*hugs*

I'm so sorry about your cat, though.

[conuly]

(Emotionally swamped, that is, not actually swamped with work or anything.)

[maju]

I feel fine but I've had a cold/cough for two months and today I've got a weird not very itchy rash on my upper thighs. I have no idea whether this is something to be worried about and I'm very pessimistic about the chances of having a face to face meeting with my doctor so I haven't even emailed her.

[conuly]

https://www.google.com/search?channel=cus2&client=firefox-b-1-d&q=covid+rash

[maju]

Although I've had some of those symptoms in combination (cough, chills, headaches, tiredness), they've been mild and also of extremely long duration (or on the case of the chills, happened weeks ago and went away after 3 or 4 days) so I don't meet any criteria for getting tested.

Hi :)

[fuzzyred]

I clicked yes to check my journal, but it's not urgent/necessary. I have made posts, so there is stuff to read, in case you need more stuff to look at. If not, that is also totally cool.

[pauamma]

Re checking my journal, I couldn't figure out whether by "no, thanks for asking", you meant "no need to, but feel free if you'd like" or "please don't, even if you feel like it". My answer would be the former.

[conuly]

I mean, realistically you could just lock your posts if you don't want me to see them at all?

[reynardo]

Coping. it's up and down. just had an AWESOME lesson with a student, so will be up for the rest of today - I hope

[conuly]

Here's hoping.

[firecat]

Check my journal for an explanation for the "Other," but no pressure.