Jess: So my Etsy shop sales have been pretty much next to nothing for the last three or four weeks. Jess: And our game yesterday was that I filled up our living room and hallway area with all of our Tupperware dishes and then we tossed a bunch of ping pong balls into the air and whoever got the highest score was whoever could hit the most Tupperware dishes.īen: Jess says, as a gig economy worker who drives grocery deliveries for a ride hailing service with an Etsy store on the side and a kid who is now at home all day, the economic impact on her life and her family has been real and immediate. I own an Etsy shop and I usually do gig delivery driving while he's at school and I am no longer doing any gig jobs because he's at home with me.Īmory: Jess says she and her son get up in the morning, eat breakfast, and do some home schooling, read some books. So I have a 5 year old and he has been off of school for a week now. My real name is Jess and I live in Michigan. But then a global pandemic happened.īen: And we thought maybe we should talk about that because we are journalists and thats the biggest story since forever.īen: Also, we really wanted to hear from listeners to see how you all were doing. We were on a break and working very hard on a special series that we were gonna bring you at the beginning of our new season of Endless Thread.Īmory: It will be great. So yeah, I’m thankful right now and I’m worried about people in the world but I’m thankful for my own life at the moment.Īmory: So just to get people caught back up on the Endless Thread world. I’ve been playing dungeons and dragons via video chat, which has been good. But I’m finding myself incredibly thankful for the things I do have, starting with my health. I don’t have childcare and I have two children. What about you?īen: I'm doing mostly just eating while meditating. I don’t know when I am supposed to be exercising, eating, going for a walk, or mediating, which is a new thing I do now. But I just feel like, and I’m sure a lot of people feel this way, I just have not found my rhythm. And I have a really good partner to be hunkered down with. How are you doing?Īmory: You know, I can’t complain. And each week kinda feels like a month, and each month feels like a year, and each day feels like a week. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.īen: I know. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio.
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