Welcome to the Apocalypse

 So, 2020. Amirite?

What a shit show.

But in all seriousness, I know a lot of my family and friends are worried about me since California has been on fire for what seems like forever but has really only been a few weeks, and now Oregon has decided it felt left out, which means I appear to be living on the set of some kind of post-apocalyptic film production except Hollywood is largely shut down so this must be my reality somehow.

When I wrote my previous post in December 2018 about being homesick, I had no idea that a year later California, and the rest of the world, would be inundated by a virus that could potentially make me very actually sick. And then only 8 months later something called PM2.5, something I'd never even heard of before, would be doing its damnedest to get into my lungs and fuck my shit up and it is LITERALLY EVERYWHERE RIGHT NOW. 

Friends and family, I can tell you not to worry and that I'm fine, and this is actually true right now. We have good quality windows with good seals and we are running 3 air purifiers at the moment so we are safe from all the smoke and crap in the outside air. 

For now.  

However, I know you're going to worry anyway, and quite honestly I don't blame you because I'm worried, too. 

I'm worried for all of us.

2020 has been the year that ALL of humanity's chickens have come home to roost.  As a species, we have made appalling decisions for hundreds of years that have led us to this moment where we are both literally and figuratively on fire. We have done terrible things to ourselves, each other, and this planet, and now it is our day of reckoning.

So here's a cute kitten video to help you to forget just how fucked we are.