This is a Covid related post

Things that are making me cry: (What, like it's hard?)

1.  This "fluffy" news article "The Easter Bunny is an 'essential worker,' Governor Raimondo tells kids" - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/02/metro/raimondo-hold-press-conference-kids-live-updates/ The governor of Rhode Island is a fucking champ - she's doing daily press conferences and some of that is taking questions from children, which included questions about the FUCKING EASTER BUNNY. Christ on a fucking cupcake. Children should grow up without having to know what an essential worker in a pandemic is. 

(I can just about deal with life being awful for adults. But then you throw in children, and people trying to take care of children the best they can in rough circumstances, and my god, I just cannot handle it.  - see this This American Life episode about Girl Scouting in a concentration camp - I FUCKING WARNED YOU - for another example of the heartbreak of trying to take care of small children - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/559/captains-log I had to go walk away from the computer and cry into the dog's back. She held up like a champ.) 

2. This cover of 'Hard Times Come Again No More' by The Proclaimers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMoM5JEgf7o 


3. The musical 'Come From Away' - specifically, in the song "Blankets and Bedding," different singers repeat, "I need something to do/ because I can't watch the news anymore."   Actually, right now any song with any group part chanting along together is kind of hitting me in a hard place right now. Hadestown is doing it a lot, but Come From Away is more effective. 
 

Dumb Dog Shit - This is not a covid related post

The dog ate a chunk off my cork yoga block. CORK. She just gnawed it off while we were sitting at dinner and kept at it until we realized there was an ominous crunching noise, and there she was!

We got it away from her, but she definitely had eaten a good chunk and swallowed it. I called the vet and left a message, and an hour later they got back. The vet recommended that we induce vomiting - which I will gloss over, but suffice it to say, you need to give a dog a small amount of hydrogen peroxide and then block them into an area with a washable floor.

She performed beautifully at this unpleasant task. Upon inspection, she brought up a good deal of cork along with her dinner. Happily, she had been clearly chewing the cork into small pieces, so if anything made it into her intestines, it's pretty likely to pass thru without incident.

She's pooped since, so she's probably fine - we'll monitor her a bit to make sure this story has a happy ending. 

But, FUCKING CORK.