Social Time with Speed Racer

I've been avoiding people in order to comply with the stay-at-home order and yet today (March 30th) was a bit more social than usual for me. I had an online video chat with some Facebook friends. I had scheduled this as a lunch event in a Facebook group I run called Liberals. There were some problems in the beginning. I used the app to call the three other people who said that they were attending, but no one showed up at first. Eventually, a lady named Faye came online, but she was sick and couldn't stay. Another lady named Carol, who is the mother of my friend, Leta Lambert, came into chat but didn't say much, other than that she is shut in like everyone else and has food delivered to her. She wasn't visible in the video. She didn't want to be seen. My college buddy Jerry showed up. Jerry and I studied theatre arts togethe. This was great because I haven't seen him in years. He's working for a live theater in Michigan called The Barn. The owners are letting him live rent free in a nice house they own. We had a lot to catch up on, and also reminisce about, like our experiences trying at standup comedy when we were in college. I showed him the tie that I was wearing, a Speed Racer tie. It's one of a number of several conversation piece ties that I inherited from my brother James after he passed away. I wore the tie with a button-down shirt because I was tired of wearing sweatpants and T-shirts all the time. I had to cut the call short at one o' clock because I had an appointment with my therapist, but it was still great chat.

I Facetimed Paula and we talked for about 50 minutes. She's been my therapist since after my mother died. She says that I used to beat myself up a lot back then, but I'm better now. I know I'm different. We talked about the need to love yourself and I told her about Shakespeare's Sonnet 10 that expresses that idea. I had recently seen Patrick Stewart recite the sonnet on Facebook. I told her about the people I've been keeping in touch with, like my cousin Chris. I also told her about my last meeting with Alycia. There's probably nothing I can do for her. It's good to have a therapist you can talk to about your problems, especially during difficult times like these. I'm writing this past midnight, which is why the date is off, so I'll have to end this here.