My work is considered an essential business under the COVID-19 emergency. I have a new employee starting Monday who will need her work computer, so today I engaged in some essential travel to get her computer from my office building and drop it at her house.

I’ve been working from home for three and a half weeks, and going to the office was weird. It was empty. Dark. Lifeless. I know there are one or two people here and there, but to be responsible I didn’t seek them out to talk. And that’s really hard for me, because I’m an extrovert.

Yesterday the Governor closed schools for the rest of the school year. Although I knew it was coming, the official word made me profoundly sad. My emotions are back and forth like a ping-pong ball, and they’re in a not good place currently.

And then today we got word that the dance studio has cancelled classes for the rest of the year, and they won’t be holding their spring recital. And that made me cry. I don’t know what it means yet for the competition season, which is supposed to go until Nationals in late June. Maybe we’ll continue with the Zoom technique classes. I really hope so. It’s so hard to believe that a month ago I was lamenting the amount of time I spent driving to and from the studio. Right now, I would take it back in a heartbeat.