Walked around downtown Oak Park a bit yesterday for exercise — nice to see the holiday decorations and the Chanukah messaging on the movie theater. I miss going to the movies. Really hope Lake Theatre manages to hang in there over the winter.
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I started watching the first episode of the 2020 GBBO on Netflix, thought it would be a nice way to start the day, and I was tearing up within three minutes. Dammit, GBBO. I have to get some work done today, y’know. Welcome back. We missed you.
Good morning, folks. Coming out of this morning’s iGov meeting, I had an idea that I wanted to run past people, something that might help out some of our struggling businesses. (This is mainly aimed at locals, though others with relevant experience are welcome to weigh in!) In Melbourne, there’s an area called the Laneways.
I’m sort of glopping together various Zoom guides I see, will keep editing this to make something that works for my classes: During our optional (but likely very helpful) Zoom calls, it’ll help if you stick to the following guidelines: 1. Log on to Zoom at least 5-10 minutes in advance in case of any
Got an e-mail from the Dublin WorldCon of last year, a totally routine sort of thing, updates and reminders to vote on future WorldCons, etc., and I’m crying now. It is NOT IMPORTANT given everything else, but I was supposed to be heading to New Zealand with Jed Hartman next week for this year’s WorldCon, and I
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We seem to be holding at around 3 new Covid-19 cases / day in Oak Park right now. (This week. It may go up next week. No promises.) [Editing to note, per comments elsewhere, that that’s probably underreported, so may well be more like 15-30 new cases / day.] Oak Park is a town of
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I had a dream where I went to the grocery store and only when I was checking out after an hour of shopping did I realize that I had forgotten to wear a mask and no one else in the store was wearing a mask, and I woke partway up, a little panicky, but then
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Cut-and-pasted from a local mom group: “This week the US House and Senate will be in major negotiations about the next phase of COVID relief, and stuff on the table includes funding for school COVID safety expenses, continuing the unemployment insurance expansion (currently due to expire 7/31), increasing food assistance, and expanding some tax credits
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Another kantha bookmark from mask fabric scraps (on top of a kantha quilt I did not make!). I’m finding it satisfying, stitching these, making something beautiful and unique out of something that would be otherwise discarded — and also a little sad, a marker of this time. Years from now, I or someone else will
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Hey, parents. I know you’re not teachers, but I also know that a lot of you are super-frustrated at the dearth of information many districts are providing as they scramble to plan and re-plan their fall semesters. You have decisions to make, and it’s very hard with so much uncertainty. If you’re the kind of
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