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Mar. 13th, 2020 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThe local public library closed at 6 p.m. today and will stay closed through the end of the month. Scott stopped at a branch on his way to work today to drop off the stuff we're done with. It filled two bags, so I thought that getting it out of the house was a good idea. I regret the holds, but Scott was uninterested in trying to get downtown to retrieve them.
They'll still be there in April. All due dates are being extended until 30 April, too, because they don't want anyone returning items while they're closed. I think the drop boxes will actually be locked.
We just did the 2020 census online. They sent us an ID through the USPS. The process took about 10 minutes. I am more than a little dubious about the requirement for not just race but 'origin.' They seem to be wanting ancestral countries, going by the instructions. I'm not pleased with that because, after a certain point, it's 'who the hell knows?' I can track my grandparents and about half of my great-grandparents, but I have zero idea beyond that.
And this is with my family having relatively unbroken records. My stepfather won't be able to answer with any certainty because one of his grandmothers had about seven different stories about where she immigrated from. We don't know if any of them are true (and we suspect not since she seems to have been trying to obfuscate something there). I also can't imagine that many African American families have certainty about that information.
I could also see being extremely concerned about what the government might do with that information.
My digestive system seems to have settled down which is a huge relief.
Cordelia's currently flinching any time I cough. I don't cough frequently, but she's hyper-vigilant about it right now.
She's also not sure how third trimester is going to work at her school. Everyone starts a new schedule with new teachers on Monday. Without physically going to the classrooms, most of the kids have no easy way to reach their new teachers. Her science classes are done for the year, so she won't be missing lab work. Choir is going to be an issue, but that's an all year class with only one teacher, so there's already a structure for her to communicate with the kids outside the classroom.
I don't even remember all of Cordelia's classes for third trimester. There are five, and I think I know three of them. The fourth is probably some sort of English and the fifth some sort of history/social science, but I have no idea. The school hasn't posted anything about next trimester on PowerSchool yet.
Both the campus tours we scheduled during the AAPS spring break has been officially canceled. The University of Michigan is offering a video tour, but the walking around Ann Arbor part was never the bit we wanted.
They'll still be there in April. All due dates are being extended until 30 April, too, because they don't want anyone returning items while they're closed. I think the drop boxes will actually be locked.
We just did the 2020 census online. They sent us an ID through the USPS. The process took about 10 minutes. I am more than a little dubious about the requirement for not just race but 'origin.' They seem to be wanting ancestral countries, going by the instructions. I'm not pleased with that because, after a certain point, it's 'who the hell knows?' I can track my grandparents and about half of my great-grandparents, but I have zero idea beyond that.
And this is with my family having relatively unbroken records. My stepfather won't be able to answer with any certainty because one of his grandmothers had about seven different stories about where she immigrated from. We don't know if any of them are true (and we suspect not since she seems to have been trying to obfuscate something there). I also can't imagine that many African American families have certainty about that information.
I could also see being extremely concerned about what the government might do with that information.
My digestive system seems to have settled down which is a huge relief.
Cordelia's currently flinching any time I cough. I don't cough frequently, but she's hyper-vigilant about it right now.
She's also not sure how third trimester is going to work at her school. Everyone starts a new schedule with new teachers on Monday. Without physically going to the classrooms, most of the kids have no easy way to reach their new teachers. Her science classes are done for the year, so she won't be missing lab work. Choir is going to be an issue, but that's an all year class with only one teacher, so there's already a structure for her to communicate with the kids outside the classroom.
I don't even remember all of Cordelia's classes for third trimester. There are five, and I think I know three of them. The fourth is probably some sort of English and the fifth some sort of history/social science, but I have no idea. The school hasn't posted anything about next trimester on PowerSchool yet.
Both the campus tours we scheduled during the AAPS spring break has been officially canceled. The University of Michigan is offering a video tour, but the walking around Ann Arbor part was never the bit we wanted.
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Date: 2020-03-14 07:57 am (UTC)Our library closed, too. We can still check out ebooks and watch movies and so on. The reference librarians are available by phone or email.
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Date: 2020-03-14 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-14 01:24 pm (UTC)I was thinking about how the library would need to sanitize books that are returned, to avoid passing Coronavirus on them, and I don't think they have a way to do that. (Though my sister once sent a photo of a machine that does exactly that, which she ran across in another country a few years ago -- I think it was China. It scanned all of the pages with ultraviolet light, I think.)
I just heard about those census questions on public radio this morning. I've been thinking about what on earth I will put there. I hope I can just skip that one.