Friday, March 20, 2020

DAY 3 - Monday 3/16 COVID LOCKDOWN

Monday, March 16


Monday. In Dept -

Last meeting with Kat - she is totally bummed (also LAX scandal with men's lacrosse).  Her senior year has just been a disaster.  Her work with me has been great, but she is so very close to having results that are meaningful and important - and she can't get to them.  It must be so frustrating for her!  All deliveries have been delayed, so Kat's project stuff won't get here AND we can't get into the building to do the assays anyway.

Last meeting with Kashew who is staying on campus and seems to be better off psychologically, she has results to work on with her FCCS, but since she can't get into the department, she can't complete the activity assays or the FRET experiments.

Last Dept meeting in Room E201 with social distancing, Alberto, Ken, Chris, and Sandi zooming in.  Great pep talk by Anthony, we worked on plans to put dept. to bed.  NMR will be cared for by Joe, Cathy will come in once per week on Thursday, Chris and Mark have instrument stuff to worry about.

Afternoon, cleaning out kitchen over at Greenway with Dylan.

Tried to do a few chores on the way home - over to CVS (line too long) then over the Black Sheep to buy 3 loaves of bread to hold us over, then home.

Made a Meditteranean chicken, feta, olive with cream from home.

Julia finally made it back to Denver from Logan Airport - it took her 3 hours from the time she left the plane until she got to baggage claim and Sarah could pick her up.  Sarah had to wait in Cell Phone Lot with Podcasts - and said she was a bit worried the car's battery would fail.  This was the first day that the International Health Check-Ins were instituted, 13 airports approved to take in international flights - Boston was one.   Apparently Mayhem broke out in the airports as facilities could not handle the crowds.




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