Had a rough night. B made the mistake of going to bed around the same time as me. I call it a mistake because all she did for two hours was toss and turn and look at her phone. She's having a rought time of it right now. I think part of it has to do with her worry about her sister's being forced to go back to school, the general state of stupidity around here, and just the helplessness she's feeling at the whole state of the world. Our friends in Melbourne got married the other day not out of desire but out of fear they wouldn't be able to later. They've shut Melbourne back down again, like serious total lockdown, and they knew they had a limited chance to get to the judge and get married. It's just shit like this that's eating at B. I mean, re-read part of the paragraph. It literally sounds like I'm living in some dystopian, zombie apocalypse war zone. "They've shut Melbourne down". What the fuck. Sadly, they've HAVEN'T shut us down and that's part of the problem. Fucktard was in FL yesterday and the pictures of the idiots standing next to each other sans masks is WHY this shit hasn't passed yet. 41,000 new cases yesterday with 505 deaths. We had 604 new cases with 6 deaths in the state. Out of 18.2m cases worldwide, we make up 4.8. 193 countries and we represent 25%?? WTF? Get it in gear people. I haven't read news yet this morning but I am sure someone else who swore it wouldn't get them died yesterday. So yeah, B is having a rough fucking time. I am too but at least I have work to distract me for once. But I am not immune. I did some impulse shopping last night. Bought a new TV. 65" 4K TV. It was on sale for $400 which is a great price, but I mean it was definitely an impulse buy. Depression shopping is what's keeping "the economy alive!" I am not alone. I am sure others are doing the same. Heck the reason I bought the TV is Saturday when we were at our friend's house, he had just bought the same TV and I fell in love with it. Especially when he told me the price. It's technically a 2019 model being closed out, but who cares. The picture is great and it has a Roku built right in. One less set of cables and plugs. One less remote too. B stresses and can't sleep. I shop. But the simple truth is we're both fucking stressed. I've never been so happy that the kid lives in the middle of nowhere. Her county has had 369 TOTAL with 9 deaths. No cases reported in 4 days. Prior to that was like 4. Gives me some peace. In March when everyone was saying this would be gone by May I said August. Well here we are in August and with the whole school thing, I am now saying 2021. February at the earliest. My friend in Canada is stressing out. They work with kids as their job and they have been calling and letter writing to see what can be done to not reopen schools. It's a death sentence waiting to be handed down.
In other news, I did teach for about 5 hours yesterday. Kept me sane. Then I made Korean BBQ tacos for dinner. We watched some TV together. Then listened to some music and watched the rain. The rain didn't last as long as we would have liked unfortunately.
Next class on Thursday. Today and tomorrow are more doc writing. Fun times.
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