I sent a few different letters to my grandmother who is 98 years old. She lives in San Diego and she has dementia, but it's not too bad like she has sort of Lucid moments. My uncle who lives with her and takes care of her told me that the first letter that she got really brought her a lot of joy and I think that it feels like it brings her back into herself a little bit. So I've just been trying to write her since I've got, and I'm really grateful that I have the time to do that. And then in the meantime, I can support the post office.

The last time I had a "good haircut" was back in January, early January or late December. My husband had given me a gift certificate to a spa/salon that is very upscale that I normally wouldn't go to for a haircut and had a really nice cut and some highlights put in my hair. And that was before I went down to Florida with my mom. I did have my haircut once at Great Clips in Florida in early March before things really got crazy with the lockdown. So my last official haircut was in early March. Since that time I have been -- I have a short haircut, so I just trimmed my bangs, I kind of sweep it to the side and was managing to get by but I was really shaggy over my ears in the back. Of course, I had no idea what that looked like, hadn't looked, and haven't been going out anywhere to really care, so I was just letting it go.

What is the best thing I received in the mail in a past month? You know, I received a card from my goddaughter who is really good about sending Father's Day cards and stuff like that, and was just one of those out of the blue cards, you know, hope-you're-feeling-well, thinking-about-you card. We communicate with electronic means often enough but I find that just getting a card in the mail or something unexpected like that is really a treat. I hope that the postal service will be able to do whatever they need to survive. It's an institution and you know, in times like this when sometimes maybe some people who aren't computer savvy or what have you, that might be the only means of communication. I find that I even enjoy getting the junk mail, which is unusual, at least somebody cares enough to send their very best.

I ordered a kit, a radio related soldering kit. It's called a Morserino. It allows you to practice your Morse Code sending. It will allow you to interface with the radio that doesn't have the proper interface for a paddle sending device, which is instead of a straight key, which you see in all the movies, there's two others and a computer a microchip dictates the length of each character, and so you have to -- it'll physically make the sound, and it’s a little easier for you, but not all radios have that circuitry, so you can use this. The main thing is though that you can connect it to the internet, and it will allow you to talk to other people through Morse Code through the internet, which is pretty cool.

Now that we're restarting school, my week has been quite crazy because I am preparing to go back to University in person with a lot of restrictions and regulations and changes. So I'm trying to figure out how pedagogically to manage that. Greeting a new group of students with a lot of unusual things in place, doing a lot with keeping students live streaming into the classroom, making sure we have a really active online presence, which makes a lot of sense considering we might, we just don't know what's going to happen. And in the meantime, I'm also managing getting my kids, my own kids, ready for the next school year, which is entailing at this point three weeks of virtual learning. So their teachers are kind of, of course scrambling to try and get their classrooms ready online and then disseminate that information to us, which is a lot to go through.