Bolton’s message translates in my head to be, “Trump never has had a bottom, never will. I may be scum, but I have a bottom, and I reached it.”

I work for the feds, so while they generally have been going by state protocol, it’s federal law in the end. However, our union may be able to push for a mask requirement as a safety and welfare measure because of the state’s laws. 

Also, having a mask with a metal nosepiece that you can bend and make it fit tighter has helped me with my glasses, and inching the mask up so it goes up as high as it can (not exactly comfortable) and then your glasses sit over the edge of the mask (not easy to keep them from sliding down then so I have started…

And just like now, bringing the disease with them half the time.

Yes, they’re uncomfortable! I actually can’t wear mine going up the hill to the store because my asthma is too bad, but you can bet I slap it on the second I hit level ground. Yes, I sweat like a pig and every night I wash half my makeup out of the damn thing, but this is the new normal. The sooner people grasp that…

They are ABSOLUTELY not used to being told no, and when it happens they react the way they did the last time it happened, pitching a huge baby tantrum.

This is still very worrisome to me--even allowing the possibility that faculty might “see fit” to teach in person creates a dangerous precedent.  Between instructors who would love to go back to in-person teaching and don’t really have a personal stake in doing otherwise, and the pressure exerted on sessional and…

This is beyond horrific. I suspect that many of the universities around here (and the colleges in particular—they are worse employers than the universities in general) would like to open for exactly the reasons you note, but they face too much pressure if they do. So the only in-person work we’ll see is in programs…

Absolutely--property rules. And the thing is, “cottage country” became popular in part because of polio in the twentieth century. If you could afford it, mom and the kids went up north, away from people, to avoid polio while dad stayed in the city and worked. So the whole thing was founded on a kind of privilege that…

You’re right about the privileged class not being used to being told no. Right now, there’s a kerfuffle around the issue of going to the cottage. Having a cottage, or renting a “regular” cottage, is a really big thing in my area if you have money, and people want to isolate in comfort. I can even understand the…

Yep, it’s not hard to understand that things suck right now but would suck far worse if we didn’t isolate. I hate a lot about the way that I have to work right now, but I’d really, really hate having my husband intubated in a hospital or having half of my class not finish the term because of illness. Sheesh.

Ugh, I’m so sorry your work is being spineless about the masks. It really shows their priorities, or lack thereof. I hope people aren’t raging assholes about it and wear them even if it’s not required.

Given the rate at which infections are multiplying in many parts of the US, anything could happen between now and when your workplace is supposed to reopen... not really good news, but in a month those nonmaskers could be singing a different tune.

So I dialed into the weekly work meeting earlier this week and they are getting ready to start letting people come back in a staggered fashion, like the phases the states have been doing. They are providing PPE and sanitizer at all the offices. On the project I work on, we did have one person come down with COVID19…

I’m so sorry. We don’t deserve dogs. They are distilled love and pure joy.

Anna Wintour has had the same haircut for a million years. How is someone who leads a fashion magazine doing that? People are supposed to take fashion cues from her? 

I agree with your assessment. We're acting like all is well because states are opening up, yet the deaths continue to climb, rates of infection are still relatively high, and people seem to be getting more reckless. I'm out and about, but I'm keeping my guard up. On the other hand, I have people in my life calling it…

Last week I posted to SNS (for the first time) after receiving a cancer diagnosis for my pup. He was put to sleep on Wednesday, at our home, and buried in our backyard. Tonight I’m sitting around a campfire (which he loved) thinking about him and what he meant to us. He was with me & my husband for 9 years, most of…

It is your job as a parent to embarrass your teenagers.

Oh it’s absolute rubbish. Especially since where I work and what our site is about is...particularly rife for the ‘but mah freedums!’ crowds. The top admin are so afraid of making anyone mad and say anything bad that they will avoid any conflict what so ever and bend to any will. They want 100% of visitors to be 100%…