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DD got a notification that UMASS will have students on campus in the fall, the schedule and what the classes/dorm occupancy will look like is still to come.

I'm so sorry about your dog @bjscheel, losing a lifetime pet is a hard thing, especially with everything going on right now. DD is still out of work, but we just went to a small gathering of friends from our 80s cruise and one of them is a manager of a couple of chemo infusion company sites...

DD didn't get the job at Target, they told her they're not currently hiring, so she's going to start doing some freelance graphic design for a friend's father's company. We'll see how that goes. I know she's just waiting for the rec centers to reopen so she can get back to lifeguarding. She's...

DD worked as a lifeguard at our local rec center, but they're closed with the current "Safer at home" orders and no idea when they're going to open up. So, after her last final on Friday she wants to apply at Target as they're hiring. She has a job lined up at school next year so it would just...

The men's team has a contract that ties their pay to revenue of the federation. The women's team declined to sign the same contract, and after winning the world cup, decided that they should then complain that their bonuses (which were spelled out in their contract) were less than the men's...

We FINALLY got the refund on the living expenses for DD's dorm this year. Surprisingly enough, it was 50% of what we paid, we really didn't expect that much back. DD did get to register for classes this year, and we've already talked about her scholarship and what would happen to it if they go...

Well, DD has said, and I agree with her, that if they are still online only in the Fall semester that she won't be taking any classes. She's on track to graduate early anyway, so it won't affect her schedule much, and the online only is a PITA. She'll end up working as much as possible. I...

I think there is a big difference between "non essential" shopping, i.e., wandering the store checking out what they have, vs. buying something that isn't food or medicine either on-line, or in person but without wandering the store.

DD got a call back from a lab she applied to for her "Immersive Scholars" fund. It's biometrics research and that's about all I know. She applied to one project doing research on infectious diseases before all this happened, but never heard back, so 2 days ago she applied to a couple more (this...

DD got home last night and was online for a class this morning. She said she was a bit disappointed because this semester she was glad to not have any early classes, then she came home and we're 2 hours behind Boston (mountain vs. eastern time) and she's got an early class again! She moved out...

You can't really compare the cases in the US against the cases in Italy. First off, as of today, Italy has 35,713 cases with 2,978 deaths. The US is at just 8,020 cases and 125 deaths. That's an 8% mortality rate for Italy and just 2% for the US. The total infection rate for Italy is 0.059%...

One of my coworkers is sequestered in her office doing on-line courses, and the other just bicycled to a grocery store to get a new XBox live subscription (and get out of the office) because he wants to play video games during the day!

DS is on spring break this week, and then will go to online classes for at least 2 weeks. After that, who knows, DD who is in her first year at UMASS Lowell will be home tonight. They're going to online classes for the rest of the semester. She told me that Harvard actually canceled their...

DD gets home from UMASS tonight. Her spring break was last week, we were gone on an 80s cruise but met her in Florida for a day before we got on the ship, she hung out with DH's parents for a few days, got word that things might be hinky and they were going to on-line classes for a few days so...

I think there are more girls who would want to go to Prom with friends than there are boys, at least here. Our prom is set up so that the Juniors plan and fund the prom for the Seniors, Juniors and Seniors can buy tickets, but lower classmen can't attend unless they're invited by an upper classman.

Wait the month and then stage it, it'll sell faster for a higher price. You might even consider taking it off the market until it's ready.

I'm not sure if DS is even going to go to prom, he's expressed no interest in it at all. He may go to after prom, as it's a pretty big deal here and the kids always have a lot of fun.

DS toured Montana State with DH over the weekend, they also got in some skiing at Big Sky. Apparently, when they walked on campus, DH said that DS got this look like he was finally home. We're going to look at a couple of other schools, but I'm pretty sure MSU is his school!

DD is sick again as well. She's getting better, but last week she was flat out for a couple of days because she felt so bad. I think the back and forth from Colorado to Massachusetts with all the different sets of germs over the holidays got to her. Hopefully she stays healthy the rest of the...

Spoke with DD on Thursday, and she's crunched the numbers, and talked with the adviser's office at school, and it looks like she can graduate in 2 years, then do the school's 5 year master's program and have her master's in 3 years. She'll be a semester ahead, so I told her to not kill herself...