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“Hi everybody my name is Stephanie and I wanted to give a quick rundown of how I am handling quarantine. So I live alone in my apartment in the College Park area, it is really close to campus, which can be kind of hard. So my mood goes up and down some days. some of them are better than others, but I am trying my hardest to keep myself entertained. And thankfully my job as a research assistant and graduate student didn’t go away, so I am doing that online.

So each day I get started by walking my wonderful dog, who is here with me! This is Terra, she is adorable! (pan to the dog laying on the floor ) She is now an 11-year-old golden retriever. We go out and walk every morning. Sometimes we go and hang out across the street actually in a cemetery because it is really nice. There is lots fo cars that pass by, as you can hear, but still *laughs* Um, I play a lot of video games, so here is my set up, with my PS4, Xbox One, my xbox360, my switch, a nice TV.

Um, I have been cooking a lot? playing a tin guitar, so here is my guitar, these are a ton of books that I have, but I haven’t been reading too much of these. Um, this is my work set up. So I have my gaming headphones which are really comfortable for long meetings, I would suggest purchasing some, they aren’t too expensive. An ergonomic chair and this *points to screen* this is a crochet project I am considering doing. I am super crafty as well so I have been making masks as well, to donate to RouteOne Mask Match for people in the local area, um. and that’s been really nice, but trying to keep up with Mother’s day gifts and stuff as well. i have my little music center over here.

Hanging out in my bedroom, it has a lot of light. i am thankful for that right now it is a bit less. but yeah, things have going pretty well and I have been just trying to manage. I have been trying to hang out with my friends and family a lot over zoom. I have been doing Netflix parties with my sisters, cooking quite a bit… recently. I haven’t always. Sometimes, in the beginning of quarantine especially I have not been super into food, so I was still eating but just like instant ramens for weeks haha. So now I am starting to get back into food and have been making homemade bread and things like that um and I made a chocolate meringue pie recently for the first time and it came out pretty ok. But yeah, I am managing. Some days are better than others and hats ok. I hope you are doing well .

Try doing a lot of different things to help keep yourself sane. And it is ok if the things you did a couple days ago don’t work today, and vice verse. That is definitely been true for me. That’s part of why I have been doing a whole bunch of different things because some days watching TV is really helpful, other days I can’t watch tv and it’s not helpful and playing guitar, um and that’s alright. I hope you guys enjoyed and I hope you’re doing well during quarantine. Bye!