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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

Coronavirus sucks. Plus it we had a lot of gray days this week, which also sucked. Me and my friends coined gray days when I was noticeable sadder on rainy cold days. I'm sure we didn't actually come up with it, but we started to make that term more commonplace within just the five of us. If it was a rainy, cold, shitty day, one of us would remark, "oh, a gray day." It made it a little better putting a name to it. Now that I think about it, me and my friends have a lot of terms that we've coined, just among ourselves. We have this term called a 'twenty-four hour thing', where if one of us accidentally said something just a little too mean, we could let them know by telling them that was a 'twenty-four hour thing'; something we would obsess over and pick at for at least the next 24 hours. It was essentially a way of expressing that the other person had landed a little too close to home with a remark they'd made. I think the worst part of this pandemic is how distanced I am from every one, especially my friends - thinking about our little things that we had to ourselves makes me miss them a little bit more than I already do. I spent about 16-17 hours on facetime with them this past week alone, which should say a lot about how much I need to have them present. I know I sound like a broken record, but the isolation affects me to a point where I think about it and feel it all the time.