Slanted Rays

In the midst of this chaos, I have been doing daily check-ins with my Facebook friends for the past week. While I consider Facebook the most evil of my social media platforms, Facebook is where I am connected to the greatest number of people that I know in real life. If you, dear reader, happen to not be connected with me on Facebook, I invite you to check in using the comments below this post. For the sake of "posterity" and "documenting the moment", I am using this page to document my first week of Facebook check-ins. March 22, 2020 Hello, friends!         I would like to start doing daily check-ins on Facebook. Social isolation and returning home from Soka has separated me from many of you, and I want to hear about how your lives are going.      At camp, we formulate our small group check-ins by doing Rose (good thing)-Thorn (bad thing)-Rose (another good thing. People who cannot think of more than one Rose can offer an Elephant (something unexpect

On Tuesday, Soka announced that classes would be canceled for the rest of the week, and, when we returned from spring break, our classes would be entirely online to limit the spread of COVID-19. I called my mom, and asked if my parents wanted me back home. Yesterday, the Performing Arts Center announced that the Performing Arts Center was canceling or postponing all productions for the rest of the season. This decision ended Soka's production of Heathers, which I have been working tirelessly on as a stage manager, Theatre Arts Club treasurer, and one of three codirectors, and effectively ended my job as a stage technician. Without any reason to stay on campus, I called my mom again, and we planned for me to be picked up early Saturday afternoon. Today, our university president announced that all students need to move out by March 27th. In effect, my senior year has come to an abrupt end. I called my dad and explained that, instead of leaving for a few weeks, I would be mo