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

<strong> Where. To. Start! The terrorists in my country forcing their way into the U.S. Capitol Building is nearly unspeakable</strong> because so many thoughts and feelings flood to mind/body that it's the ultimate traffic jam. Many knew the threat. Those in leadership either requested support which was denied or supported the threat.<strong> Residents in this country are split among those who are surprised (white folk) and those who aren't (BIPOC). Credible threats are mounting for Inauguration Day.</strong> Good god, please don't let another tragedy happen. No doubt our national leadership will try to move forward and past rather than pause to reflect, fix/heal, and then move onward. I fear what will come from that. For a moment, pandemic news has taken a backseat, but there has been no respite from anxiety, only trading the cause. <strong> I was registered for a grad course this spring semester. I dropped it just hours ago.</strong> I will not take a course this semester. I see so many things cluttered, unfinished, in need of attention in, around, and about my house.<strong> I feel bad enough that I've been working from home for 10 months now and accomplished little on a long-standing and lengthy to-do list.</strong> I know the spring will bring added yard work.<strong> If I feel this bad now, I worry what I'll feel like at the end of the pandemic if I don't accomplish substantially more. So, I am putting grad school on hold</strong> for a semester (at most, I hope, but I promise myself nothing), and I will commit myself to spending non-work time one of two ways: regaining an exercise routine which was lost due to my inability to easily pivot since the onset of the pandemic, and accomplishing all the long-standing items on my household to-do list.