Oh 2020, you are more horrible each day than the last.

So 2020 has been just a giant shitshow. I hope people looking back on this time in history are past this pandemic and learning from the lessons the U.S. Government failed to learn until Saturday, November 7th, 2020, when an adult was voted back into the President's chair and the Nation breathed a collective sigh of relief. I know I'm feeling much less stress. Of course, this is now the week M starts back to school in person, so we've been doing virtual school for the first nine weeks and then some, and it is ROUGH. I want teachers to get ALL THE RAISES. GIVE THEM ALL THE MONIES!!! They make miracles happen! And my kid doesn't hate me when I am not in charge of homework! Make me just Mom again, I hate being the taskmaster as well. I LOVE YOU TEACHERS, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

So here's how the year really went. January, Coronavirus out of Wuhan (people are already coming back into the US) Fuck That Guy, also known as the current POTUS, closes the border to China. So we're shutting the barn door after the horse is in the house sitting and having tea with the family. It spread. NY got hit hard, no PPE anywhere for doctors, and no toilet paper anywhere for laypeople, and the delivery for groceries (YAY!), but suckage everywhere. School cancelled until the end of the year,nothing is getting graded, so M didn't go. Work had us stay home starting on March 17th. Fourteen weeks later, I was back in the office every other week, and on the opposite weeks as BigM, so that worked out nicely. We are all using masks, and I'm using a face shield, because I don't care if I look stupid, I DO care if I get COVID, because that might kill me.

BigM's cousin died of COVID. She was in Nevada. I have seen my sister exactly twice. Through the car door, and for like 2 minutes socially distanced and masked. I haven't seen Mom since February. I hope I can depend on the people I am working with the stay safe and stay away from groups of people. They closed the building suddenly at 4:30pm today with just over two hours notice, for "preventional cleaning". Which means that someome is waiting on a test result, to see if they may have exposed those of us at work. I am annoyed at all of it.

I just want some normalcy! It's very demoralizing.