So what what's next after this? They give you another like mini survey?


Yeah, I think that's the way that it works, so I'm actually only showing 24 minutes, so.


Oh you know what? Probably because I had that window open longer so go buy yours. So I guess that's what they said. Don't open it earlier. That makes sense. I guess they don't give a limit to how many times you could do this. It seems like the easiest these uh survey thing I've come upon.


I think maybe, I think maybe there is a limit, but it's like seven or 8 or something and they're going by conversations, not by how many times you sign up mark, I'm trying to remember because like I had so few conversations, it just hasn't seemed like something to worry about. Mhm


So what's the,


No,


so you've been on it for about six months now? Um I've only been on it for about a month. What like consistently have you been able to make like a week or a month? I'd say like this month I've made I guess about $30 from it.


well I have never tried to do it, I've never tried to do it so as to maximize how much money I'm making. Um Like there was probably a month in there when I just didn't check in like at all. Um But I'm finding out okay, if you


And


are


or?


consistent about it, I would say be able to make 10 bucks a day, but that would be that would be being very consistent. Um Using the thing that alerts you to the um the browser plug in, that alerts you to new prolific studies that you're you're but if you do that then you're getting dinged pretty constantly. Um So. Uh huh. But now I've I have never done it so consistently or so often that I'm actually getting $10 a day on a on a long term basis because I just like I'm not.


Yeah. It's not that serious. It's a survey thing.


so I mean it depends on how much you yeah want to put into it and You could probably do more than $10 on some days. Um It just sort of depends on what the surveys are like and and loud. Thank you Roy what we're looking for and how consistently you're supposed to do. Um And how consistently are. Um Sorry?


Yeah. Are you saying


Yeah so yeah so I mean I've done it for six months and I've probably made $260 but that's being sort of inconsistent about it. Mhm


I like the a pounds thing? Right. It's an actual bucket to. Pretty nice.


Mhm. Yeah but So I think we probably actually have yeah we've cleared 20 five minutes now. Um All right so it was nice to talk to you.


It was very nice talking to you. Best of luck with everything. I hope you and your family stay safe.


Thanks. You too. Have


But.


Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Oh yeah. Hello


Hi. Not


favor.


so fun. Yeah.


Yeah, you did. I've had two of these end after five minutes because nobody showed up. Yeah.


right in the world? Oh. Oh well that's too bad.


Have you done some of these before?


Mhm. This is my 4th 1.


Yeah, me too.


Yeah. Um Now you know I just wrote him an email because I thought in the instructions that said the four was the limit to get paid for.


I think so.


But I've lost my instructions somewhere so you know, so I hadn't send some more but I just didn't want to. I mean I know it's four I'm sure it's for but the rest of it I couldn't remember. So but


how


it's a


are you doing?


to meet you county. I'm doing


I'm


well.


doing,


How are you?


I'm David I'm doing well too.


Good, good. I'm in Georgia.


Okay. I'm


Texas.


in texas. Yeah, not


No


too far apart.


not too far. The first person I talked to was in texas. So yeah,


let's see.


maybe


I've


you know


got


him


the people


and colorado and California. I don't know where else, I don't remember.


talked to texas and florida and that's it. Just. Just say so.


Yeah, but so how's your summer going?


It's going good. It's of course slow because of Covid but uh and too hot to do anything outside and I'm not


that's


an outside


me.


person anymore. I'm okay.


Yeah. I prefer to stay inside during august at least. Yeah,


yeah. What do you do for a living? You're


I'm a teacher


the third teacher. The third teacher. Yeah. Yeah. That's so cool.


We


I'm,


start backing up on monday.


well, um, the guy I talked to you last night. Yeah. I think they start back on monday. Also, they kind of had their teacher meetings and acclamation and all that stuff. But officially where I am, they already went back and I think they've already decided that was a bad idea. So they closed again. So


Have they closed? Okay. Is that is that like the public schools or what?


public schools. Yeah. I, and I thought it was a bad idea to because


Great.


I mean, we got in Georgia were one of the top, you know, as far as people being affected so they


We were


rushed


one of those


it.


states as well. I think it was like florida Georgia texas


If,


Arizona. Uh huh.


except for you and me and our families were they got some of the dumbest people, don't they?


Yeah, sometimes I feel that way uh this informed at least. Yeah.


stubborn something. I don't know. Yeah.


stubborn certainly. Yeah.


It's sad. But


Yeah. But I actually grew up in Nebraska.


Onebraska. Okay.


yeah I moved down here for work so


Um, what part Nebraska did you live in


in Omaha Cook.


Omaha? How far away with that from Joplin know


from job Joplin Nebraska


Joplin Missouri?


Missouri. Okay. I was wondering. Okay. I've heard of


wait


dropping,


a minute. You


I've heard of Joplin


said


Missouri but not Joplin Nebraska.


you said Nebraska. I was thinking uh Nebraska. Yeah, I was thinking Nebraska because


It's


it's kind of on top


here


of it.


or is that? I think it's about a seven hour drive. I actually go through Joplin when I when I drive back home sometimes.


I I lived there before we lived here for


Oh is he?


five years and uh, we moved there 10 days before the tornado hit. So yeah, it was pretty, pretty scary. Uh,


Moved into uh


well


like a brand new house or something right before the


we


tornado.


were, we were in a second story apartment. So yeah, it was, it was pretty scary. Um, you know you go out sight seeing the first couple of days you're there and the next thing you know had a third of its gone and uh if it stayed on the ground it would have hit us directly. So that was pretty. And my husband was in the home depot like two hours before it hit and was

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Oh my


goodness.


wiped out. It was flattened. So yeah we don't


That is really scary. And coming from Georgia I mean were you in Georgia before?


know


No.


just moved here from there so. Oh


I was just gonna say maybe you hadn't experienced tornadoes before at all.


no I was in Kentucky and Indiana before that so in the alley pretty much so but we didn't have you know like uh we had warnings and stuff all the time but we didn't really ever have one touchdown except the year before we moved to Indiana. They had a big trailer part get wiped out a bunch of people killed. Um


but that Joplin tornado that was really nasty.


category 44 or five. But the problem was it not only


thanks.


was it powerful but it just sat on the ground and ground You know it didn't move very quick you know it's just and it took out a hospital and just all these important you know killed 51 people. And um


Did it


it


damage


was.


your apartment building?


No unfortunately. Well fortunately we you know didn't get damaged but we like we were facing, our appointment apartment was facing south and it was coming from the northeast. So what was coming, we were in the vortex because it was the wind was blowing branches and trees around back to the side. So the opposite side of our house basically here's it's coming and we're here and then it's there. So yeah,


huh.


it was strong, strong winds. Um I've never been and I was coming apart because I've never been in anything like that. So we were really fortunate, real blessed about it. So


Well so I grew up in Nebraska like I said and if we had a tornado warning we always went to the basement


well


but


that's


we don't


what


have those here in texas very often.


they don't have them here either, They don't and we were trying to find something, I'm disabled and it's hard for me, mobility wise to walk upstairs and stuff. And it was just, we got real blessed as far as we found a brand new home to start renting. That was just one story because there's so many were two stories here and uh not very many basements I don't think either. Um But yeah it's like you know I gotta I don't want to pay rent for a whole home and I can't even you know enjoy the whole thing so


Brett


but it won't be good. Yeah but y'all have tornadoes up Nebraska too. Right.


we did yeah. Yeah it's pretty I mean pretty severe. We never there was never really a bad one that came


Good


through Omaha when I lived there


good.


but there were warnings about the time every summer. Yeah.


We uh that's what I love spring but then it always is going to bring you know the storms and lightning and but I'm not as afraid as I used to be of it. Um But


And here we live with enough to the coast that every once in a while a hurricane will head our way. It's not a hurricane. By the time it reaches us we're


pretty far north we get some bad storms that way.


that's good. I've never been in a hurricane. He lived in florida years ago my husband um


Uh huh.


and they have hurricane parties and all this and stuff and I never had been I wouldn't be able to enjoy our gain.


You know, you know? No.


But some sometimes the weather gets, we were supposed to get weather from the last one and it didn't make it far apart inland. So uh you know we don't, we lost power last night that we had such a storm not wind rise wise but just a lot of rain and I guess small fell. Um But I got to tell you I've lived in Kentucky when the power went out and they were decently quick about it, I wasn't rural and

Yeah. Yeah. Oh really? Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.


Three.


then in indiana they were like slow as molasses getting it fixed. Uh


Oh


We didn't have a problem with power going out that I recall it in uh Joplin and here there on it. I mean it's just so amazing how fast they fix it. And I love it because you know


No


we're tv addicts and phones and


of


for


course. Especially


our


nowadays I just


I mean


lost


when


your


it's going on,


I just lost your camera.


no, I'm still here. I'm still showing on me.


I can still hear you.


That's weird. Well I'm still showing and everything.


I don't know. Well I can still hear you anyway. I was going to be um here yeah we live in the pine forest so if there's a if there's a big windstorm will lose power pretty quickly but like you said they're very they're very quick to come out and fix it usually.


that's good. That's good. Well last night after it was getting the power was probably had a total of maybe 30 minutes and that's when we started getting the shakes. No, we just love tv. Yeah,


Just thinking about the next day in no air conditioning.


that's and it was starting to get hot in the house to um but he was trying, he's from Minnesota and he watches the twins when they play and a lot of times we can't get the game. So he signed up for the thing where you watch on television and so last night I knew he was really want to watch this game and I was doing my watch his ball game and I was playing my video games and you know, I told him I said, you could take my phone because I still have more higher on it than he did. And he wasn't able for some reason this phone wouldn't uh connect to the internet. So uh I said, take my phone, you know, I'll land uh throw myself on the hand grenade for you because I could always read. I had, I had a battery operated light and I said, I can read. Uh so he knew I loved him. Then I'm willing to my phone. True.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Mhm.


Of course. Yeah. That is the nice thing that you can still have internet usually. Yeah.


exactly. But he got to watch his game so he was settled down. So


So how are the twins doing, do you know?


I don't know. Um I'm kind of a widow when it comes to the sport. Like he'll be watching the case tank commercial, so he'll be watching golf and then he'll flip to this


drink.


and uh, let's see the twins. He likes to watch the cardinals, he watches the wild, Very


Well,


little football,


he


but


must have been going crazy during the early part of lockdown. Well all wards removal.


yeah. I mean he can read about what's going on and watch old old games if you wanted to, but he didn't want to do that. It was the weirdest spring I've ever been through because usually, you know, he goes missing and then, and I don't see him even though he's in the same home with me, you know, he's watching a game or something all the time. So, but hey, babe, how are the twins doing you? They're losing their division. Oh, huh. Oh, under leading the division. I'm


that's


appalled. I'm sorry.


You


Good


know I


thing. I'm not,


used to like baseball but, but lately I only pay any attention when the playoffs are starting. Yeah. So


I don't know. We went to a game one time when we were up there on our honeymoon actually, um, which was nine years ago. And uh, it was fun, but you know, maybe disabled, I couldn't sit that long and stuff so I you know I couldn't uh enjoy it as much as most people could but uh we still had a good time though and and then when we went back I just stayed at his mom's house. She and I watched the game on the television and um I got him a really pretty uh you know like uniform what is it jersey that the twins were red and white and it was always beautiful. It was beautiful. Unfortunately they lost our luggage the first day so when he had to go when he got to go the game he didn't have his jersey and I was like I spent

yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Um Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mhm. Yes. Okay. Uh huh. Cool. Really? Oh


no.


a fortune Jersey.


But he still got, he got it back eventually. I yeah.


that's the first thing as soon as they brought the luggage and they were real nice about it, you know they got it right to us everything and I said I just got to openness and find it. Yeah, so that's the first thing I look for but


So


it could have been


you


worse.


spread like when you were in Joplin, maybe you were fans of the Cardinals.


Well he is um


He is right.


I'm fine either way. But yeah, he's


I was just gonna say, yeah, I grew up in Omaha like I said where we have the farm team for the Kansas City Royals. So we would travel to Kansas city quite a bit and go watch those games. Yeah.


okay. You know, I don't think I've ever been to Kansas city, but I'm sure I love the barbecue because that's


Yes. The barbecue is good there. I


But


like


now


the barbecue were next to the


yeah, I don't I haven't had texas barbecue but I'm really crazy about western Kentucky because that's where I was raised their barbecues, got a vinegar based to it and


like them your style.


I mean that's that's my favorite because I'm not much on sweet barbecue. Um


What


It's fine.


what is there like a kind of meat that they specialize in or is it just the sauce?


Um They use um good grief, what do they use mutton? Well in their in their like ground up kinda or well you call it, my words are failing me today. Uh


or something?


Shredded, that's the word, yeah, the shredded this mutton and


I had


then


no


they


idea.


do yeah and I think it's beef ribs but I mean I can just, the sauce will make you cry, make your nose run and I can't get enough. I'll just sit there and keep eating and eating and


Yeah, I always


I


like,


miss


I like


that.


vinegary things. I like mustardy barbecue sauce or spicy.


Yeah. I've not had must ary mustardy.


I feel like that might be like a Carolina thing or something. I'm not sure which one um


I think


here


you're up.


here in texas. It's it's brisket, that's the specialty.


Oh yeah, I like


It's


brisket.


very good.


Yeah. Do we have a Kroger here and uh I used to make my own ribs and my awesome


Mhm.


stuff and then I got where I was doing it in my uh quick cooker instapot thing. Um


yeah.


But


Yeah, we kind of want to get to get us.


you'll love it. I mean it's just you know, you can take a bag. Like I had been making hot wings, I don't even have to solve the wings. Just put them in there and cook them and then put sauce on them and embroil them crispy and


boil them after they cook in the instapot. Yeah. Okay


and I don't know, we've made a


well


couple of different


we like


things,


to make a lot of the soup from scratch


they'd


so that's one thing I would really like it for.


be perfect for it. Yeah. Yeah. It at first I was afraid of it, you know, I'd always make him do it and now I'm not


get


too


with


bad.


the pressure. Yeah.


because you know, I just kind of silly but I'm afraid


Well


I'll,


it's true the jester cookers can really be dangerous. Yeah. And.


But yeah, you'll enjoy it and they're down to a real decent prices anymore. So like beans, sometimes he likes dry beans, you could do them real quick.


Yeah that would be great because I think chili tastes so much better if you make it from dry beans. Uh


had it, but I think it is, yeah.


Yeah I mean we don't do it that often. Usually we just buy canned beans so much faster.


You like chiming in the summer? Yeah.


Not so much in the summer but I still I still made it a few times during quarantine because it's


I


one of the


love


indian


it.


things


Any


to make.


time of year. It's kind of silly.


it's a good dish and it doesn't it's not that complicated.


Right. And uh it's got all kinds of, you know, it's got me it's got vegetables, it's got protein, it's got all the good stuff. So we put spaghetti in ours, which I never did before. I met him and now it's good.


that's sort of yeah that's a northern thing. Especially


Is


like


it?


matty in Cincinnati they have like their own style chili that has always has um I think pasta in it. Sometimes they add cinnamon to the sauce.


Zinnemann


Yeah it's good.


in nutbag. Do they put some people do


I


that?


don't know they might add some nutmeg to. I think that might be good and


I remember.


it's like a weird sauce. It's like thinner chili.


I like my thick, you've watched, have you ever watched right away? She she uses uh cinnamon or nutmeg. And I think nutmegging her spaghetti sauce, but and I tried that one time and I ruined it. I don't know if


And


then


put


six


it was terrible. It


I've heard of using nutmeg and um mashed potatoes which I started doing and he's a little bit, it goes really well. The cream and the butter and stuff.


Is like you just go like that


Maybe


just one,


if you think well I mean usually when I'm making mashed potatoes it's only like at the holidays it's all making a huge portion. No I probably went like that a few a few times and maybe


Well I think that got carried away with I'll have to try to like


especially with spaghetti


little bit of Yeah. And


You


do


don't


that.


want to taste like christmas


cookies or something.


know it didn't it tastes like garbage what it tastes like. It didn't taste like cookies and things like it unless you like garbage cookies. Uh That was terrible.


That's what they call the cookies where you throw everything in, Right?


Yeah, I guess so. I'm not I'm not big cook cookie maker. I like making muffins like from the box. Uh The


we got


limit.


into making a sour dough over the last few months.


Oh you're one of those people they say.


it was a big trend. So yeah we have a sourdough starter and I'm still feeding it not making as much these days.


But


you have a bread maker? Is that


I


what


do,


you've been


but I wasn't, I wasn't using it for the sour dough. I did the sour dough in the oven. Yeah.


He made a long time ago, you know, back years ago and I could I considered it, but I didn't really know, you know if I want to put that much effort into it because I don't have uh blender where they call it.


You if you, if you want to make sour though, you really don't need much at all except for a time. That was the one thing we had in abundance over the last few


I made bread before when Sardo and it was at the time I really enjoyed the idea and I would make it for family for christmas and I'd make like four loaves and that doesn't sound like a lot, but to me it was a lot of work. Um But now I don't know if I would really want to go to the trouble. Uh


Well you can. Yeah, I mean they have the these popular recipes these days that are like no need. All you gotta do is have to pull it a few times and like flip it over, fold it over. Uh It's just, it takes a long time to let it rise and all that sort of stuff. But the actual physical labor involved is pretty minimal. Mm.


Okay. You might consider that his mom has a bread machine but she she doesn't stay, well she's a she's just turned 90 so she doesn't do it anymore. But you know you had to buy the with the machine, you had to buy the package of ingredients and all that kind of stuff I guess to go with it and you know that kind of expensive for her so I didn't want to do that route. But how


No.


did your third? Oh turnout was it? Pretty good.


Uh even when it didn't turn out that good, like it didn't rise that well or whatever, it was still good to eat. So I was pretty happy with every single loaf. There was love where I burned the crust pretty bad and that was that was the worst. But it wasn't, it wasn't like I could eat it. Yeah,


He likes


so


he


it's pretty


likes


good.


sarah. Yeah. I


And


don't


I also


know,


getting all that bread, it helped


bread


me gain about £20 over quarantine as well.


is the hardest to give up for me. I love bread, pasta and cheese. I mean comfort food heaven. Uh And I never used to be a I never used to have bread every meal and now I'm worse about it than it used to be but I


it's


pretty


know.


good though.


Yeah. Um I don't know if you've ever gone to uh think it's ruby Tuesday's years ago. They


A while ago. Yeah.


they served a real dark like almost black rye bread with strawberry butter for your appetizer.


that's really good.


Oh it was worth that to just go in I mean and I really I'd love to get that together and have that sometime but I don't think now dum, dum, you'll sit there and eat all of it and it's


So


not good for you.


outback steakhouse has a very similar bread. Have you been there before?


I have not now. Uh


have like a dark rye bread. I don't know if it's a library, but it's dark anyway.


Yeah. Yeah I think it wasn't pumpernickel,


But


I just want to say it was a real real dark rye and when you to look at it it looks like you know but when you put that back on it man it's


butter helps


just yeah and


Yeah.


then strawberry uh Yeah that's


I've been wanting to make a rye bread but I can't get any ride this summer.


so


Can't buy it anywhere.


how do you buy how do you buy rye like by


Well


the


I mean


meat


usually it's available in the grocery store


like?


just like a bag of rice flour.


Oh right flower. Okay I didn't seeds or plants or


You're


so.


using the ground. Yeah. Oh I mean you could you could probably get seeds too if you want if some people grind their own.


Yeah. Do you like the do you like the seeds like caraway seeds on your rye bread and stuff? Yeah


like that stuff. I mean especially like loaves of bread that have lots of different things and like seeds and nuts and stuff. Yeah.


like uh it's some brand that we got when we went to visit his family the last time up in Minnesota and had five different kinds of seeds and stuff in it. And I can't take the brand but I mean it was awesome. It was really


We like that stuff a lot. There's a there's a brain called Dave's good bread I think it's called. We


it


like


was


that.


at that I've heard of that but he likes Sardo with uh egg salad. Homemade egg salad. I can give or take it.


My wife makes that from time to time. It's it's okay. It's not bad. It's


not something I get too excited about.


yeah it's good you put green onion in it and it's just it's good he makes we make tuna salad. Do you eat tuna salad with egg in it?


Not usually I've had it that way.


I was raised on that and he doesn't like, yeah and I'm like you like egg salad so try some egg


why


into.


not? Example? Yeah, The


it's


only thing


good.


I won't beat when it comes to tuna is that this tuna melt that um I guess my wife grew up eating like her family made it using like the pre made biscuit though and like it's like tuna melt inside of a biscuit or something, it was awful. I, I can't eat it,


That sounds because


it sounds


I'm not


bad.


big hot tuna to me. Yeah that sounds like put cheese on a fish sandwich. You just it's not right. How many times? Mcdonald's


You


does it? It's


made it


not.


one time. I wasn't a fan and so I don't think we've had it again.


Yeah. He made uh just a couple of days ago. Made a pasta tuna. Uh What was that you made babe tuna? Castro yeah tuna casserole. And then he put the


both


french crispy. Yeah


Oh


like


the furniture, right,


castro.


onions or something, Yeah.


and we had never had that. I mean he had it but I had and we ain't on it. It made enough for an army and we ate for three days. And uh it was good and no longer it said the baby got. So yeah


well


that


we do


was


pretty


with,


good.


we use those onions for like green bean casserole. Probably everybody's seen that before. Just


Betty


the classic


Crocker's


Open


and


three different hands


you'd


and throw them together basically.


that's what this had and had. Yeah.


Mhm


I'd said you know I try to keep soup in the house and I said we do have three cans of these soups. He said yeah. And I said that they're not expired. He said no. I said Ok, course. Yeah.


that's gonna make it, yep. Mhm. But


So you gained


well,


a little bit away during the thing.


I sure did, I'll


haven't.


be working on that in the coming months.


Yeah. There you go. Well, I hope that what do you teach? What do you teach?


I teach college, teach math,


you must have a big


what


brain.


everybody said. Yeah,


that's Yeah. I mean I'm not afraid of it like I used to be but when I was in school and all that, I just I couldn't handle it and algebra, I'm not afraid of now because nobody ever explained to me that this is a formula and find out something. They just it was just and satan said let's put numbers with letters. Yeah.

yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, sure. Mhm Right,


rote memorization and stuff like that. It's kind of unfortunate because the stuff that I really like about it that made me want to pursue it, you don't really get to learn until you get to college or maybe later on in high school. So


Like what like.


well just like um I guess proofs like the idea that like you said you were taught a formula or just to use numbers and letters with no sort of understanding of what it means, but when you actually see what's behind all the formulas and why they work and you and you feel like you understand it makes it more fun. At


That's


least it did for me.


what my light bulb went off about it and you know I just told myself because to me every time I did it the rules changed. It's like where you're supposed to put everything outside of the print in the princess and then you do it outside the princess. And I've seen I've actually seen on the internet where people will take a math problem or algebra problem and everything gets different answers and so I can't be the only one. You know it's like the rules change so I don't understand sometimes.


Well


That's what bothered


that's probably like yeah in order of operations thing where they have to, you're supposed to, there's a standard for which one you do first and if you didn't follow that standard you'll get a different answer. Sure.


This this particular problem they were talking about um both ways sound familiar but one of them was the way I learned that that was one way that people got it right? And you know, I mean, I just, I just blew my mind is like, these are professional people and they're supposed to know and they don't even know what it is. So now I don't so, but uh,

Yeah. Oh sure yeah. Uh huh. Right. Yeah,


yep. Well


you


it's about that time actually and I just


know, actually


got an extra my wife, you need to pick my daughter up so


it was your toe


and


happy


it's


wife.


good enough


Happy


for you.


life.


Thank you. Yeah well have a good day.


you, too. It's nice to meet you. Thank you,


Nothing


David.


we can do.


Bye bye.


we're, mm Okay. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Okay thank you. Yeah. Right. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah mm. Yeah. Mhm. What's going on? Give


me one


much. Have it? Yeah. Yeah.


So what do we just talk about?


How's your quarantine experience been going?


Um Let me let me adjust something real quick.


How this one?


It's okay. Um I've already already worked from home, I've been working from home for the last two years so it really hasn't changed. What about you?


Um Well I'm in high school and I'm a senior, so it's been like kind of annoying. It's like senior year. It's just like another thing anymore. But


Yeah that does what part of the uh again the United States Embassy? Me Okay. Northeast I'm in north Carolina.


Oh, have you guys opened up yet?


Um A little bit. Not much. What about y'all?


Um Just a little bit. Nothing really. But we have like parks open or something.


Yeah our parks opened up last week so we were able to go out last this saturday. I took like a seven mile hike through the mountains. So we


Oh, that's


did we did get a lot of stuff open but you don't get to go out any. I'm assuming you live with your parents. Okay. So do you get to go out at all?


Uh Not really. I think I've only been out like three times in like three months, so it's been one.


and that's actually the same with me, I mean I go out, I still go to the grocery store um probably two or three times a week, but I don't really get out, get out. I mean this saturday was the first time that I've really gotten out with two other people, but they stay at home as well, they work from home as well, so it works fine, so.


Well like what you said about going on a hike, like I feel like I've been able to go outside a lot more, which has been nice. What?


how did you, I'm curious how did you get into this prolific site?


I think I sold them like Reddit or something.


Yeah, so did I? So I worked, I worked, I've always worked from home and like right now I'm like in my office room and I can't leave my office pretty much like I answer phone constantly. Uh And between that I was like browsing Reddit and I was like saw that site and I was like, you know what sounds really stupid. Maybe I'll try it when I was like this is no money at all, like this is ridiculous, like as many services as I take. And then I started figuring it up and I'm like well I'm at work eight hours a day and I do Roughly, I've only been doing it for like two or 3 weeks. And then I was like what does it really matter? I'm already at work, why don't I just do them? And in the years time we'll have, I don't know such and such money, you know, so I'm already at work. Why not? You

Yeah. Mhm. Uh huh. Yeah. Mhm. Uh huh. Yeah, wow. Yeah.


What?


know, it makes sense to me. So I


Well,


was


like


just curious.


I've actually, I've done like other survey sites too, but like, I don't know, they just like don't really pay like compared to pearl effect, like they don't pay like anything Like it's like 10 cents for like half an hour. So like this is actually the other


And


it's others


yeah, no, I got you. I've only, how long have you been doing it?


um Probably Like two months or so.


Really, wow. Okay. So I've been doing it two weeks. Have you had anything like this though?


No.


Yeah, neither have I. Um So I think this is like the biggest study that I've done so far. Um So


I've


I don't


gotten


even


know what


first


do you


samples


mean?


or something before, but not from this site is another one. Yeah, it's like soap or something. Nothing that exciting. Mhm.


so I'm just curious like whenever I guess after day two I had enough to cash out and I was like I'm going to try cashing out the small amount of money to see if this really is true. And so I made


before you


my,


invest like more time.


yeah, so it went into my paper I got and I'm like okay I guess it works, you know? So um like I said I just said at work why not make an extra few dollars here and there and then go buy something at the end of the year with it, you know? Mm


that's it. More than you think like I don't think I've really invested in anything worthwhile. Just fought


So


like video games.


Oh yeah, I think I think that I'm at like $40 and two weeks.


Oh, that's nice.


Um So and that is because I can sit here for you know my work you know like I don't have to do anything like I have to be in the front of the so um


How often


sometimes


do you get service?


um let's see actually haven't opened up on my work computer.


Because I feel like minor like really sporadic like they don't really like they're not consistent.


Yeah they don't have them consistent at least from what I've seen. Like I woke up on like sunday at like six a.m. And I got up and I just go check always check them constantly working. I check my work emails. I'm like A study popped up at like six. a.m. on a Sunday. So uh yeah a lot of that. I don't know there's no but it's all it's all overseas that it's coming from right because it's in pounds so I'm

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


It's


wondering


like in the UK players.


yeah what time is it there right now? You know Like do they get more surveys at night when I'm sleeping


Yeah, that's No,


the,


I actually was thinking that too.


you know, But I go to bed pretty early so I don't know, you know, I'm never a plate so but well that sucks that all this is messing up your senior year, wow. So what are all your other friends doing?


Um pretty much the same thing and then a few people aren't following social guidelines, but


Right. Right. You plan to go to college after this?


uh yeah, I'm not I haven't chosen the out but we'll see about that. Yeah.


Do you have anything you want to go into?


Um I was thinking like psych or I mean I was kind of thinking art but like I don't really know what I would do with that. Probably more psychology.


Okay. I got you. Um Yeah, I don't know too much about any, any one of those that are you an artist? Are


I mean


you


not


delivering flag


just it's


on?


just something that I like to do, it just helps me distress. What


Well,


are your hobbies?


um yeah, pretty much. I restored like old motorcycles, like really old ones.


Oh that's cool.


I'm like vintage what they used to call the first street bikes, not like Harleys or anything. Um And then I have like older cars and I'm restoring right now. One of them is actually in the paint booth being painted and I should have it back really soon. Um Mountain biking, start biking, anything that's outdoors fishing. Um You know, like I'm not really a computer person, I don't really play video games. Um but I did just start playing Call of Duty. Uh


Oh my brothers into that.


Yeah, so, So I moved to North Carolina two years ago and I'm always lived in Dallas texas before this, I'm pretty old. But uh I, my little nephew, he's 11 years old, he got Call of Duty and so I don't play video games, so I was like, hey man, I'm gonna get this game, let's play together, you know? So it keeps me and him were close before I left, so his dad and my brother got it as well. And so like we're all playing and we get on, he can't play during school, school night. So I had to play with him on the weekends, but I've been doing that as well. So. Um,


What?


but


That's nice.


yeah, pretty much it. I mean I go out a lot on the weekends, like friday and saturday. Not anymore, of course, but we go out with friends and yeah, I guess you could say go out to dinner, have a couple of drinks, maybe go to live concerts, A lot of live music we go to actually pretty big on that, but, but yeah, that's about it. Yeah. So


Yeah, I can't wait till we can actually see the restaurants and stuff again. It'll be so weird though once everything is over.


yeah, a lot of the restaurants here are still open if you want, like curb blood service, you know? Um,


Yeah, that's what


so


we're up to.


I live in downtown so I just walk over and can like grab something. I'm always taking my, have a really good dog that I take on a walk every single day, probably three or four times a day. And


What breed


is that


they Rhodesian, ridgeback,


I ask.


you


Utes.


know. Yeah, they're massive, just big dogs. She's just she's a sleeping in my bed right now. She's pretty, pretty good. So she just turned three here two weeks ago and


dogs are always


I


nice though because they're like big bloody marys.


yeah she is and she's not she's not rambunctious, like she's just very calm demeanor. Um And I've been teaching her, she uh she goes mountain biking with me, so whenever I'm on my bike like she runs with me like through the trails behind me or in front of um But yeah, she's a she's a pretty good dog. You got any pets?


Um No I used to have a golden retriever but he passed away like I think it was years ago.


Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. So you have you have our brother then, that's it.


Uh My older sister too.


Older sister? Yeah, my whole family is back in texas. Um So I just kinda moved away from them to be honest, I'm missing a pretty good amount right now. I was supposed to go back to texas here last month. Um And I stayed there, I go probably four times a year and I usually stay with my brothers and my parents you know? And uh but because of all this I didn't get to go so a little homesick right now. Um But now we're getting through it. Mhm.


I've actually I went to texas for the first time, I think it was like a year ago, but it's really pretty there also we were like surprised what's it called? Bucky's bucky's is


fucking


like the most amazing thing ever. It's like a department store


Where did you go in texas?


um Like san Antonio and Houston.


Yeah, so uh I know the bucky's that you went to and I've been there uh 10 15 times, who knows how many times? Uh And yeah, we always stop off there. Like I live in Dallas which is up more north and we use passing more. Uh I actually used to live in a town called Denton texas which is Just above Dallas like 30 minutes and didn't just open up its first Bucky's last year. So they were building it while I was moving up here and it just opened. I've been there like two or three times but it's massive. So pretty, pretty cool. Pretty cool little place. Yeah.


Yeah Dallas looks cool too, but we didn't get the chance to go. But I saw online they have like a bat bridge or something like at sunset. You see all the bats like. Well I


That's


I really


an


want


all.


to see that. That looks cool.


Yeah they have, I've never gotten to see it. My brother lived in Austin for I don't know, like 10 years


Austin.


and


Austin that wasn't dull. Alright.


yeah it's an awesome, yeah, Dallas is pretty cool. It's it's very, I mean it's so big, like so massive that it's crazy. Um But there's no there's no there's no like scenery as far as that goes, like there's good architecture there and stuff. Uh it's just flat and so whenever I moved up here to actually I'm surrounded by mountains, you know? Which is just


Is that near the Smoky Mountains?


Yeah, pretty much. Uh


we went through there one time. It's pretty.


Yeah um it's gorgeous up here. Like I don't have in texas, we don't really have tons of trees and mountain. So like, Pretty much


What?


my two best friends moved up here, kind of on a whim. They were a married couple and they just, they lived in Dallas or whole life and they said, hey, let's pick a spot. And they just picked Daschle. I visited him like two years later and I was like, really like Asheville went back and I never thought of it. And then a year after that, I was just like, you know, I was about to buy a house in Dallas. I was like, called them up and I was like, hey, what do you think about me moving to Nashville? And they were like, yeah, that's great, come on over. And so the next time that I flew there actually went to go find a place to live. And so I went to Asheville twice before I decided to move there I found a place to live and now I've been here for over two years so, but pretty, pretty.


I've always heard that area was nice.


Yeah, it's pricey, it's expensive here. Right.


could just never I don't know. I I like having four seasons though. Like having no, well I love we got like a ton ton of.


Yeah. Well we get we do get four seasons here in Nashville, we don't get a ton of snow because we're actually in a little crevice, so we're surrounded by the mountains. Um So we get a little bit texas, we don't um The first time I actually ever saw like snow accumulate was like last year and it was


See I could never imagine that.


Yeah, I mean texas, we we we do get snow even in north texas, it's rare. Um But you would say once or twice a year you might get an inch or two, there's no you know, something like that. Um but here I think in my backyard I got like 8" of snow and I was like this is the best day, you know it was awesome. Um But we have mountains here so I just took up snowboarding last year. So another one of my hobbies love snowboarding


Well that's for


now. Like one I even end up buying a season pass. Um So yeah I love it. But


I've only ever really been into like cross country skiing, like snowboarding, like downhill skiing. It's not really been my thing, but cross country is nice.


Yeah. Uh I went once when I was 16 in Denver and I loved it and I was like I'm gonna go back every year and I just never did you know never had the money. Um but now that I live here uh you know like much older but gotten into it, I'm like man I don't remember it being this hard and like falling


No


hurt


it looks


and


hard.


yeah it's pretty it's pretty fun and then in the summer time they want the snow all melt. They they take the ski lifts and they turn them into mountain biking. So they take your bike up the ski lift


Oh that's cool.


and then you get to go down the mountain that used to ski on it. So but I haven't got to do that this year since everything's gotten shut down so. Right. Yeah. So where is this timer thing that we're supposed to be looking? I haven't


I


even.


don't know. I think it's on the other type of mind just like restarted, it restarts every single time I opened itself. I mean it started 7 25 ft. Mhm.


So well


So like four


what


more minutes.


time did you get on? Oh


let's just say like 726/7 to be safe.


and you were on video then? Okay. So what do you think they use this video footage for?


I don't know. It said studying conversation so I don't


What


know what


are


that


they


means.


studying about? Like


Can't


there's


they just like


million


go into a cafe and just watch people or something.


directory? I mean I


I


don't


mean


know.


I guess


It seems


not now


like


they can't do that


do you think that they're going to have somebody sit down and watch our recording


and like and


and villa? Why


That's weird.


these two here? Yeah. Well um I actually thought that they were going to pair me up with like somebody like in another country or something, you


that would


know,


have been cool. Yeah.


you know, still both english speakers I guess, you know, because that's the only way to do it. Um But yeah, I actually thought that that's what they were going to do and see how that, you know, people react or how things were going over there for them. I don't know, that's just what I was like that. Maybe


That


we'll


would have been


work. Yeah. Um You ever been over a country anywhere?


I'll just kinda so it's nice there though. I've always wanted to go to Japan. That's been like the one place I always wanted it. Have you ever been anywhere?


Um No uh oh, I mean I've been to Mexico, I don't know 10 times and then I've been to, I went on a cruise out of the gulf of Mexico and I'm trying to went to like bullies and I remember it was like five or 10 years ago and several countries down in South America. It was just like 30 of my friends went on a cruise. So um, it was pretty ridiculous but we had a good time so. But yeah I've always wanted to always want Japan's up there for me. I always wanted to go somewhere like that, like I think it would be a big culture shock.


Yeah. That's why I want to go. It just seems so different like from anything I've ever seen. So that's pretty much why.


I was supposed to be going there. I don't know I guess it would have been two years ago now. Yeah it would have been two years ago now. So my girlfriend at the time was chinese and her grandparents still live there so she got to visit them pretty often and so we were playing on a big trip to go there and I was like there's you know there's my chance to go plus I had somewhere to stay and somebody who could actually show me the cool stuff instead of all the touristy stuff. Uh But then we ended up breaking up and I moved here so you know, they never get to make it. But definitely at the top of my list in Australia would be too. And I don't know why. Look.


All those spiders though and like the snakes. I don't know if I could handle that. You got the qualifier. So


Yeah. But maybe maybe one of these days I'm not a huge traveler, so.


Yeah. I mean I've never been on a plane so that would be a little difficult.


Yeah. Well I think my first plane ride was I was probably 16 And I'm I'm 37 now. So um but got to go on a few. I'm trying to think I've been to 25 or 26 states. So I have gotten to the there's a lot of places.


me too. I think it was two years ago we went across country trip, so I think we only missed like obviously not Alaska or Hawaii. We went to most of them except for like some of the midwestern ones. Like I think Kansas and stuff, but it was cool.


Yeah. I've been wanting to do a trip in my truck. They're all the wilderness places. I have one of those off road trucks that, you know, I take out and do all that stuff and I really want to do like a big trip up to Alaska. But to do that I really need to take off like a month from work and I don't think that's gonna happen. So Yeah. Plus my dog


Law school


hate.


looks pretty.


Yeah, I was gonna look awesome. I would love to go there but my dog hates truck right? Like she hates getting in the truck. I don't know why. Most dogs


she has like


love


car


it.


sickness.


Yeah, she starts hyper ventilating so it's just like extremely panting and just going crazy and she's just very stiff, you know? And uh like whenever I go back to texas, I take her with me and Like that's a 14 hour drive and she's just miserable the whole time. So yeah. But but yeah, maybe one of these days we'll get the go on a long trip. So. But Oh yeah. So what else?


Um, decor almost about don I mean,


Yeah. I don't know. I did be honest. I didn't look at the time. It doesn't it doesn't bother me. I'm not any real rush. I'm gonna answer some work emails after this. Yeah.


I mean I've been procrastinating work all day, so


What's the artwork behind you?


um Oh, that's just a 21 pilots poster.


You want pilot? Is it was that what you like to listen to you? Yeah.


know. I like alternative music and stuff. So


What's your favorite band then?


uh, going on files,


Yeah. I know one of their songs. I know two of their songs. I can't


is


think


it


of


stressed


the one


out? Right? Or heathens?


I don't know the name.


It's probably though.


It's one that's got a little bit of rap but the other one that I do know and I think I know the name. It's they did a remake from My Chemical Romance. Do you know who that is?


yeah, I can't think of


In


the song.


Hope?


That one.


Yeah it's called Cancer. I thought that they


that's


did


the one. Also.


yeah they did a pretty good job of that so um but other than that they're pretty horrible band. Um Sms. Okay. Uh


What's your favorite?


um You ever heard of Manchester Orchestra?


No.


Okay. Manchester Orchestra is probably up there may be brand new, so that's the


Is


name


it


of the


like


man.


a, like an actual orchestra? Is that just like


No, it's not, it's just normal alternative music.


Thank you. I'll


pretty


check it out.


like yeah, it's actually pretty,


let me let me actually read that time. What is it called? Yeah.


or Chorus Orchestra. Hard to say. Yeah, like it's easy, like anybody who, I don't know, I've seen them in concert probably about five times and they're really good, like Cd through CD is consistently good and it's not any sort of music that's kind of weird out there that like somebody is going to be like, oh, I don't like that, like overall it's a good, no


that's


wrong


music.


the worst when you have an artist that you like and they make like good albums and then the ones just get worse than where I've had that happen to like three different bands. It's like so disappointing.


Mhm. Yeah, I haven't time so yeah, give him give him try and see what you think, but well, cool, we about done.


I think so. Yeah. It's nice talking to you.


Yeah, I hope I'm sorry that your senior year sucks. So bad,


it's


you know, like


a lot it's


we


a lot better compared to other people are going through, so


true, well, I wish you the very best and I hope you


sir,


make a lot of minimum prolific. Okay, uh you


Bye.


have a good night


nobody's here. Big Shocker. No 1's here, Yeah, mhm, Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, love you. Oh, the mayor, Thank you too. Uh huh. Oh, good morning.


good morning, Hi, how are you?


good. How


Well,


are you?


I'm doing pretty pretty alright, just woke up, so.


you just woke up, Yeah, Okay. Yeah,


it's um I don't know if we're in different time zones, but at seven a.m. So


yeah, at seven a.m. Here, where are you from?


I'm in Atlanta. Yeah.


I am in Pittsburgh, well, about a half hour outside of Pittsburgh.


Okay. Okay. Uh I've been to Pittsburgh once and that was for


no,


a um it was for a school like science fair trip. Yeah,


interesting.


I had to go to Pittsburgh and it was it was really pretty city, I liked it, it was it was very like walkable, like you could walk to everything uh if you were downtown and that was pretty fun. Uh Yeah,


Yeah, we have a lot of bridges,


and a lot of bridges. Yes. Yeah.


lot of bridges, mhm.


But it was not, yeah, there's no um


Mm,


there's no like, because I I go to Georgia Tech, which is like right in Atlanta, uh like right in like midtown downtown Atlanta and there's no like water in Atlanta, like there's no rivers or like anything, so no, okay, so it's not, it's not as pretty


So


as Pittsburgh, but Mhm


you're still in college?


Yes, I am, I'm a sophomore, a second year. Mhm.


what are you studying


I study


and interesting? Yeah,


I, uh, I graduated, you're making me feel so old. I graduated from college in 2008, um with a business degree and an accounting degree and I, unfortunately 2008 was when, you know, the, the economy kind of went to


the


hell.


recession.


So I wasn't able to really find a job, so I'll end up doing management and um, you know, like retail management type positions. And then I had kids. Uh So now I'm a stay at her mom. Guys, stop, stop, my dogs are playing. So now I'm a stay at home, mom And I have two girls, one is 9 and the other 16. Well.


I have, let's see, I think I have one sister, younger sister that six and another one that, Well in my seven and 9, I've younger sisters that are seven and 9.


Oh my goodness, you're just you just keep making me feel, I feel ancient. Oh my


Yeah, I actually have, well, let's see,


put


I have, yeah, nine siblings total, so um The two youngest ones are 7-9, and then


What?


mm I love that I think, and I'm really not sure of their ages, let's see. Uh


Oh.


my oldest, my my two older siblings are older than me there, I think 24 and 22. Um And like they're moved out and everything. Um and then I have a brother that's the same age as me, um 19 who goes to a different school in Georgia. And then I have, let's see, my next youngest sibling is in eight it's grade. Um And then And then 7th grade and then 6th grade and then like fourth and first or something.

Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Yeah. Yes. Right. Uh huh. Right.


Oh my your parents uh I have to and I'm like sometimes I don't know how I could handle two, I couldn't imagine.


Yeah, it's definitely it's definitely hectic. There's never a quiet or dull moment in the house. Um So yeah.


Now do you stay on campus?


Yes right now I'm on campus. Um


they like shut down? Do you actually go to class or?


No all of my classes


That's


are


great.


in our online, like on a zoom call. Um Except for my labs because you can't you can't really do a lab online. So um I go to in person labs. Well they're they're finished now because the semester's almost over. Um But every other week I would go to in person lab and there would only be four people in there uh in the room at once. Um But

Yeah. Mhm. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh wow.


Mhm.


yeah, pretty much everything is shut down, everything is online, especially at this point. Uh The semester is like wrapping up so yeah we like they take like a lot of precautions um on campus, like everybody is required to wear a mask. Uh if they're in any buildings


No.


and all the students do weekly testing, so


Oh, I'm


they have,


that's fun.


well they have they have free testing uh for all the students


What?


and uh they ask you to do it once a week just to uh like check and like as like a surveillance to make sure you know you haven't been affected. Um But it's not like it's like a it's a really quick test, like you just have to like spit in a cup. Yeah,

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So


it's not that crazy thing


it's


in your now?


not the nose. No, that would that would be that would be unfortunate.


the book.


Um So yeah, it's really easy and it takes like two minutes, so like on your way to, you know, go to the library or something, you can just stop and test and it's really quick. Um So yeah, they've been doing a lot to like make sure uh that it doesn't get bad here on campus and so far it's been pretty minimalist and like Like 1% of people who get tested per day come back positive And they do around 1000 test today I think. So it's been pretty, it's been pretty good here on campus or I guess not good, but it hasn't been bad.


Well, that's good. Yeah, that's good. Things are getting pretty bad up here are cases have are like double triple than what we had in the spring.


Yeah it's uh I think it's getting bad everywhere, like it's getting the worst, it's been um it was kind of it's kind of it's kind of funny. Well I guess it's not funny but it's it's strange to look at like um in the spring


With


when they sent everybody home from college. I know here in Georgia there was only like 20 cases in the state when they sent everybody home. And now now in Georgia I think there's 300,000 something over 300,000. And you know, like everybody still like nothing, nothing in Georgia is on lockdown, which is strange.


Yeah, I think in the spring when my kids, it was the end of March because it was right around, yeah, right around the end of March, um they had, You know, said, Oh, we're moving everything to virtual and at that point we were only maybe getting, you know, six or 700 cases a day. And Now I think yesterday we had an all time high way like 60 300 cases. Yesterday we have like a 20% positivity rate. I mean it's it's insane. But yet my kids, well a lot of the lot of the schools around here are virtual are switching all virtual. Mine is hybrid. So my kids go monday Tuesday and then they're virtual Wednesday thursday friday.

Yeah. Mhm Uh huh. Mhm, mm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.


Yeah. I believe, I believe that's like the setup that my um that like my younger siblings time is that would go a few days a week. Um but like the school system they were in, they were just not handling it well at all. So my mom recently moved them to a different school system because because like the other school systems doing all virtual and they're doing like a lot better. So yes, I think now at this


Hey.


point they're all online.


Right. Oh hi. I know.


What kind of dog is that?


Uh This is a Sweeney. I have four dogs, this is a Wienie, her name is lucy and then her sister, this is Tinkerbell. My


baby.


kids named her, she's another Tween E she we got these guys because there was my husband his previous job. Uh The one cleaning lady had Sweeney's at her house. Well she just you know didn't get the boy neutered and one thing led to another you know some some late night frolics in the backyard and she's a little puppy. So she's like you guys want one, we're like, well of course, you know, so that's when we got Tinkerbell and my kids named Tinkerbell, because we had come home from Disney like a week before we got her, and then the next spring comes along, right, and we get this phone call,


The same,


hey, uh they had another date, you know, in the backyard and that's how we got lucy, so they're from different litters, but their same mother, same father. Um


Mhm.


And then we have a teddy bear puppy who's behind me on the couch cushion. She's half be sean half shit. So I believe. And then I have a an old guy who's over here drinking water, he's uh college Australia Lab mix, he's 13, so he doesn't do much, he just kind of like lays around the house, gets up to go to the bathroom and then comes back and


he's


goes,


he's getting old. Yeah, I've always said if I if I ever got a dog of my own, that was a girl, I would name it lucy, I don't know. Yeah, I like that name, but um let's see back home, I have For I think I have four dogs also. Um


Yeah, yeah, I have


You


four,


think?


we have a lot of animals, I like, I kind of like live on a farm. Um so like we have like a bunch of cows and chickens and


I was


cats and dogs and a rabbit. Yeah, so um so yeah, let's see, I have one outside dog that you know, stays outside, she's a husky, and her name is tubby.


to be


He um my parents uh like before I was born born, they used to raise, we'll get some before I was born. When I was like young they used to raise huskies um like breed them and they eventually they eventually stopped, but one of the huskies, they had got hit by a car and


no


like she broke her hip and like had like you have surgery.


great.


Um and that is tubby, so like so they kept her and they were like okay we got to stop doing this. Mhm. And so that was her and then I have three more dogs that stay inside and they're all well actually no no no I have four dogs and stay inside. I have one just like Straight


No.


to Chihuahua. A little one, her name is Gizmo and I think she's about probably close to 13, she's


All


pretty old. Um She's getting mean and blind. Which yeah. Um And then I have another one who is uh she's some part chihuahua, some part something else we don't know but her name is Chloe, she's a small one and then we have a larger one named Abby who is also just a mud. I think we like found her on the road or something when she was a puppy. And we have a we also we also have a Weenie whose name is Harley. So

right mm. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. Mhm mm. Mhm. Oh yeah


mm there's such cute dogs. You know what I just love that they dig under the blankets, I don't know if yours does that but it must be like the docks in thing. I put blankets out and they have to be under a blanket and they have to like make their little nest in their blanket. Yeah they're so fun. Yeah I I grew up with the animals but I would have loved to have lived on a farm. Um I have animals, I have two cats now, four dogs. Um I have two parents that are over here. Um One of them was mine that I had um that I had bought because I wanted, I fell in love with him and the other one was one of my good girlfriends that moved to Ohio, she has had his name's Gully, he's about I'd say 12 now um she got him when he was about a year old, but she wound up getting pregnant and she had a pre me, I mean he was born at like 26 weeks


so you know with going back and forth to the hospital and things like that, she just couldn't, she didn't have time for him, so he came here, so he's here to um so that's how I acquired the other parent high, my


Well


old man is whining.


well let's see, living on our farm is not it's not always cut out to me. It's not I don't know me, maybe I'm just not very kind of like you know I don't care for it much because the cows are not like when you drive by like look at them, they like look nice but they're really not there


They smell and they're dirty.


There's smell, they smell terrible and they're dirty and uh especially and like certain times of the year like the males like the bulls, they just get mean and like yeah like


Yeah.


unfriendly to you. Um So yeah like we used to have to go out like I used to have to go out and like you like feed them every day which which Is that you have like 30 or 40 cows is a lot. We like we have like barrels full of like grain and we would have to like load a wheelbarrow up of grain and then roll it out there like three or four like loads of it and yeah they just smell bad and okay


Oh no. Now


giving


were they dairy cows or were they, did you guys use them for slaughter? Romney


don't think we had any dairy counts. I think


Ram be buddy?


I think I think we only we raise them too to sell or process. Um


yeah, the process is a nicer work.


so like we we've done that like we've done that with like three or four cows and we've been doing this for I don't know, 6, 5 or six years now and would like three or 4 cows that's like


Remember.


that's like lasted us


No,


like until now like they


no,


make a like they feel the freezer um


this is they do. They do, Yeah.


it's it's a lot but yeah. Um Yeah. Yes.


my gosh. Yeah, I want chickens, but my husband told me now I want chickens because I wanted eggs, but he's like, Ashley, you're not going to go out there when it's 20 degrees outside, You know, you don't experience this, but um you know, it gets very cold up here. He says you're not going to go out in the winter and clean out the chicken cube and he's


Let's see


he's right.


our our chickens, I think they just think they just run around uh we have like a coupe like in our barn that they stay in, it's like a large


Run


ones I don't think, I don't know, let's see we like my parents have like the kids go out and collect eggs and stuff like that's like your job like like we don't really have to worry about it. The kids, the kids like find it fun to like go find exits, like always an easter egg hunt.


Oh, that's cool. Mhm


and they lay eggs just everywhere is in the most obscure places like you'll find them. Like one day we left um like the window to our van down and the next day found an egg like in the floorboard of the van. Yeah they get everywhere. Um Yeah you said it was cold, he said it was cold up there. How how cold is it now?


Um right now it is 29° outside. Um Now it's average around this time of year is in like the 40s for high, we're kind of having a heat wave here the next couple of days, it's going up to like 60, Uh but overnight were down into the lower 30s. Um Now winter, I mean we can see lows in the negatives, highs, I've seen them highs in like Of 5°8°, but that's only for like a few weeks, you know, end of January, like the real, real cold um Summer we had a really, really hot summer this year we had A couple days that were like 95. But I know this is probably like, yeah, we're still at 95, But 95 to us is like, you don't go outside. It's very, very hot. Hey, stop it. We're over there playing uh Average for our summers about 85. Okay.

Mhm mm. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay.


Okay. Um


Oh,


Let's see it's it's getting like cold now here


And


in


what's


Georgia.


your cold?


It's uh well it's been like it's been like in the low 60s um for the high which you know now everybody's bundled up like that's yeah that's cold for us. Um It's actually warmer than it normally is um Around this time like by now we're normally like in the low 50's I would say. Um But yeah so like at night it gets like in the 40s Um like 40s to 60s is what we're at right now. I know in the wintertime like it can get cold but Like very rarely as it gotten like below 10, Like I probably like count


Killing


it


me.


like counting on my hands so many times in my life it's gotten below 10 in Georgia. Um And like we've never I've never seen a snowy christmas. Yeah, I I can remember christmases where it was like 75.


Oh my gosh. Yeah, we get snow all the time up here hey, enough, every time I try to talk or even if I call somebody on the phone as soon as I start talking, the three little ones decide that it's time to play and then you can't hear anything. Um, we are, yeah, we've already had a couple snows so far. I mean nothing that is stuck because the ground is still


become


warm so it'll snow, but it just won't accumulate. That's crazy to me. And it's, it's funny that you say everybody's bundled up in the lower sixties because you come up here and lower sixties people were in shorts and a t shirt Walking around, you know, to us, that's warm. Like to us 65 is like a beautiful sunny Day, you


Let's


know,


see.


get out in your summer gear and I probably don't wear a winter coat until its lead at least like 25°.


you see like normally like my rule of thumb is like


Great.


once, once it gets like 40 is like when I'm going to get like my like hoodie and my coat and then if it gets below thirties, when I have to get like the gloves and the hat, it's um but no, like an average warm day up here is like 75, 80, like that's that's comfortable. Um


So


And


that's that's pushing hot for us up here.


yeah, let's see, let's see our summers um It's Like we'll have like weeks then it goes like 95, like on average, but 95 in Georgia is not really 95 because it's so humid. Yeah, and so the humidity makes it feel like Like 100 or like 102


the


and it just gets so sticky and like hot and a lot of bugs, so.


cool. Yeah, I don't do bugs. Yeah.


You know what I'll take I'll take the snow over the 95° summers. I just I am not. Yeah. Forget it.


I don't know, I think I'm more of a I'm more like a warm weather person, I don't really like being cold. Uh then again, I'm not really ever used to it so almost.


Yeah. You get used to it. I mean up here like I'm sure you guys your heat is probably set on your house or your dorm. I don't know like 75° or whatever. We have our thermostats at 64 you know


let's see


right now, I'm at 69 in my room, so.


now see that would be too hot for me. I would be so hot. Yeah, we said ours at 64-65° and that's just what you know, people are used to being colder up here.


Yeah, I guess when it's cold outside, 64 feels warm once you walk inside, so. Okay.


definitely. Really? Guys? Really?


Yes.


What are you doing? You make a noise. Oh these guys are so bad. Do you miss having animals like living in a dorm?


Um It's definitely it's definitely I like I like the dogs and you


No.


know it's nice to like have them around just like you can give attention to them. Um But yeah, we're not allowed to have any animals in the in the dorm. I know like a few times my roommate and I have talked about getting like a gecko or like like a like a small like mouse or something just to have something. Um But I think technically all animals except for fish are

Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mhm. Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mhm.


All


allowed in the dorms and I don't really want to fish. I feel like I'm not I'm not a fan of keeping a pet fish but


Their new fun. They don't do anything.


yeah. Yeah, I don't know if I like I kind of feel bad like letting


You


a fish just


grew


say


up?


in one tank for his whole life and just like you can't like pick it up and play with it. Mm The so yeah. Yes, because I'm in on campus housing where there's no animals allowed and uh like they give us a bed, like they give us furniture and everything um but I think if I were to move to off campus housing I could have a pet, but in Atlanta that is very expensive. Yeah, like in downtown Atlanta um Finding housing is expensive, so

Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Uh huh. Yeah. Right. Uh huh. Oh really?


I can imagine. Yeah. We live um in the middle of the woods basically. And you know what, That's how I like it. We have neighbors but they're far enough away where they don't bother us. We don't bother Graham. But if something would happen, you know your neighbors are close enough to where you can get in touch with them and and that's that I'm good with that. We we have about an acre of land here I mean which isn't much compared to a farm but. Mhm. You know it's not it's enough for us. Yeah.


I've always lived, I've always lived like in the country um


Okay.


not in Atlanta, well there's still a lot of trees and it's like it's still pretty like rural looking um there's a lot of trees, it's like I think it's like termed the city in a forest, Atlanta is um there's still a lot of trees around and everything but like all my life I've grown up either like in like in the woods or um like now I live just like in planes pretty much. So it was just like like grassy heels and yeah, so the city has been like being in the city the past couple of years has been like it's definitely been a change. Um and I don't know, I like that everything is close by that if I ever need to go to the grocery store or like get some food or anything, I can just walk.

Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Right. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah.


Yeah. We can't do that.


Yeah, so there's some pros, but then again everything is more expensive and yeah and it's always busy and loud, so


Well it was very nice talking to you this morning.


it was nice


I appreciate


talking to you


you


also.


showing up. I I haven't had very good track record so far. Yeah.


How many times have you done this?


Well the first round I talked to like 33 people or four people and then this round they kept giving me appointment and I'd wait and wait wait. Nobody showed up. So I think this rounds through the second or third person. Oh good morning. What's the matter? Oh you don't sound good. Somebody's getting into your infection but I will let you go to enjoy the rest of your day. Thank


Okay. It's nice


talking to you.


Yeah. She escape. Yeah. Mhm. Is that right? Yeah. Yes, sure. This morning. Okay. Yeah. Mm. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. That's right. Yeah, I do. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah.


Hi hey harry.


Scare me.


Yeah yeah I can hear you.


That's, um, some tray, uh, live in massachusetts, uh, story out of boston. You know? What about you?


Oh cool I'm Sharon I I live in pennsylvania. I live about an hour near Philly philadelphia. Yeah. Mhm. Are you are you a student?


No, I, I just graduated. Actually. Not,


Oh yeah me too.


not, yeah, not the best time, not the best time to graduate, I'm sure.


Yeah. Did you um did you graduate


Mother.


from undergrad or grad school?


I'm a grad. Are you also in the gran?


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I graduated back in August of 2019 so I've been working full time for about um 11 months now since


well, what do you study and like, what do you really want? Uh,


I um I studied finance and business information systems. I was a double major um and I have a minor in chinese. Um


Just cool.


Yeah and right now I'm working as a I. T. Risk consultant at ernst and Young. Yeah


That's where you


all


go. Um, campo engineering. I'm not working, uh, as a research engineer. Yes. Also been working for a little bit. Uh, where do you go to school? Because I actually have some friend. What is going to fill it? I was just curious.


Mhm. Yeah I I want to Lehigh University.


Oh, it's really good school. Yeah. Actually did apply there because I have a really good engineering program. Yes. Yeah.


cool cool that's cool. Where did you go to school?


I went to school, tell us in massachusetts, so yeah, I just, I just


tough.


live here.


that's


My effort.


that's a good school yeah I've heard I've heard about are you living with your parents right now?


Um Living with housemates. Yeah, I'm actually, I'm actually from Vietnam's. I'm not from America, so


cool. Yeah international student. Right


yeah, yeah, I'm glad I'm kind of glad excitingly. It's not also not great to be an international student at this time. Um Yeah.


Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah I understand what you're saying. Um My roommate, both my roommates were international um students and uh they're from one of them from Beijing china and the other one is from like another city, it's like more northern china. Um So both of them went back because they can stay here, so. Yeah.


Yeah. Yes, ralph um yeah, it's a rough time for everyone. Are you living with your parents? Are you originally from pennsylvania?


Yeah. Yeah I grew up in actually I was I was born in Manhattan in


No.


new york city um and then I lived in china for like four forest years of my life with my grandparents. Um My parents were here uh they were in new york um and then I came here when I was five for kindergarten um in like new york city, the queen's area. Um And then And then uh when I was like it's like all over the place, sorry when I was when I was like nine or 10 I came to Pennsylvania and I just kind of stayed here um ever since also like for school as well actually my college is only half an hour from here from my parents house.


that's, that's really good. And your parents can visit you a lot. Uh I wish, I wish I could say the same about my parents. Uh but yeah, I've been training is great, been just filling a lot I really like, so we have been food there. Oh,


Yeah, they definitely did. Oh I really like um I think feel is the best, far out of um like all the major cities that I've been to.


mm. Yeah, I, I think I try eating like at a Vietnamese restaurant, it was like pretty good boston has like a really good uh remains to, this is like a big women's community here. Yeah.


Oh


Feelings,


that's good.


plates


Yeah. Yeah. Um Yeah so like I I know I know that my friends and I really one place I think it's called Faja uh it's on like Washington street, I'm not sure if you're familiar.


like in massachusetts or in uh chile


Oh no, no, no, it in and Philly, Yeah, in Philly.


huh Yeah, so I don't think I've been here but I have like a lot of also like give me strength who go to Temple University and fairly um so


Oh type. Oh yeah. Type of a lot of yeah. Uh


this school,


that's that's cool. Yeah. Our friends in the pennsylvania area.


yeah actually almost like um so these are also like friends, you know back from Vietnam um just kind of funny, it's like a lot of them went to school and temple and I don't know what's going Dickinson. So like yeah, like a lot that's just like in pennsylvania uh and that like the only kind of view these people I know over here so I go visit them a lot. Uh


Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.


so


Um Yeah go ahead.


so how was uh things going for you? I imagine you probably just working from home a lot. Yeah.


I am working from home a lot. Um but I think it's kind of nice because I get to wake up later and I don't have like the commute. Yeah, because when I when I lived in new york, I lived in queens um but my work was in Times Square, So


Oh that's long.


it was it was like about 45 minutes to an hour commute. Uh so it was like really long um and now I keep kind of saved like two hours on that, so that's nice and also my parents cook for me so I


That's


don't I don't have to worry about. Yeah. Yeah.


That's also yeah my housemate are in the same situation where like they have Like even using like the metro system, I have like over 40 minutes, I'll come here. I usually like half a short because on my house because I work like I buy to worry it's like a seven minute away and I have like the longest communities actually have to leave the house like go to one because I do a lot of black work so I can't can't really do too much of that at home.


Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. It looks like a beautiful day out um where you are right now. Yeah.


Oh no, it's


It's


actually opposite. There's a there's a storm coming. Uh


Oh really? Oh I thought I thought it looked really nice.


I mean it's pretty, it's pretty bright because I don't know like like this because I like daylight savings in summer is like it's just deep right out until like new york home. But discipline like a storm is coming. I don't like tonight. I like tomorrow. Uh huh. Yeah. Still making a lot


Yeah I see. Yeah. Sorry I dropped something. Uh


So how about it?


So what?


Oh come here.


Yeah go no go ahead. What


Yeah I've


do you usually


been talking about


like? What do you what do you usually do like when you have like some free time?


free time. Um I really like cooking. Um I'm


that's nice.


not that good at it but like I think it's just like


Me


sometimes


neither.


it's just


Don't


like


worry.


yeah I could just feel like the sake of it. Like sometimes like I could do things much more efficiently. I just don't do it because I just like you like the process of cooking so I cook a lot. Which is great because you are like great for the pandemic situation because you know mm just like at home all day just eating. I also like um dancing but it's kind of hard because I


girl.


can't take dance class because just like a couple of very risky to you right now. Uh Yeah. It was like like a two main things that you what about you?


I like I was eating. Um


I mean,


So


who doesn't do it?


so so so I mean you can cook for me and I'll eat it. Um And I also like um I guess like online shopping a lot. Um which


It's


is


fun.


like this is like all the things that I've been doing a lot lately. Um But if I was able to go outside I usually like like taking walks. Um and I also like going out like with my camera like taking pictures, I have a canon T. six I so it's like a bulkier camera but I'm still learning how to use it so.


That's awesome. So I've always been curious about like, okay, commit. Is it? It's still like digital rights. You still like saved. Like I have no nothing before photography. So what?


yeah it's it's it's called a DSLR so it's still very much a digital camera. Um and like it's kind of waterproof but you shouldn't really get it wet um And it looks pretty archaic I would say. But it definitely with like the proper skill you can take much better pictures than like the latest iphone. So


So what's like, it was like the advantage was like something you can do with the camera that you can do with an iphone so I can picture is pretty good in my pants.


I've seen pictures but I found iphone pictures tend to be um flatter I guess like you still have like portrait mode but it's uh you can't really make the contrast as like nice. Whereas like with like um um with like uh DSLR you can take like either really detailed pictures with like the background almost like a like a watercolor which is very nice. Um


It's really cool.


And then there's like yeah and then there's other aspects of it, were you like where you can definitely take pictures of things in motion like


Thank


very


you.


very clearly. Um which the iphone doesn't really capture like for example


I see.


like water splashing, like you can see like the individual drop that's like very um so I guess it's just more precise I guess. Yeah I would


It's believed


say.


cool. How long have you been um doing photography?


Yeah not long at all actually, it's only probably been like a month or two on and off, so I'm still learning um So I can't really tell you much about it unfortunately. Yeah.


happen like now it's like feel like the perfect time they want to like, I don't like get back in touch with copies. Like, like, like everyone just, you know, like baking bread. Like, like I have one friend, it's just like, like make to love of bread two weeks and I keep bringing it over to my house is like, make me try it. Just like, I don't I don't like


That's


that


funny.


unless, but it's just like, it's great.


you should have told her.


Just like, like just eat it very slowly because you just can't get too much away at that time. Uh


Uh Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't really like bread either, it's too like a soup plan. Thank


that's true.


you. Uh


Yeah. It's just like rice better. But


Yeah, me too. Me


because


too. Me too.


we're asian.


Me too. Yeah.


You


Asian, definitely.


Yeah, that's great. Remember back home from hundreds foolish reasons. Eat rice with soy sauce. It's like it's like too lazy to go because you know, like it tastes good enough. Um Right.


have a friend that ate rice with salt sometimes when she didn't have like anything else. Yeah, and that


Perfect.


was really funny. Yeah. What's your favorite food?


I fear food has a hard question. It's a lot. Um Yeah so I realized soup like a noodle soup


me too.


a lot. Yeah. So


That's yeah.


so this is their meat noodles of coal. Meanwhile it's like the translation is like why noodle? And it's like kind of like a province in Vietnam. It's not that popular here. It's not like we're like if I know. Yeah but it's like really good. Um It's like very tasty and love it. What matters is your favorite?


Yeah, I I um I really like far um


Is


but


this great?


I guess I but I guess I just like like more Americanized for I would say because I don't really know what authentic for is like I haven't been to Vietnam. Um


It's true. I was


and


saying


I also really,


I'll go ahead.


Uh Yeah and I also really like like um um ramen but like not as much I would say because ramen, like it's like um it depends sometimes it's too too creamy for me. Um I feel


Just


like the broth is like too thick. Yeah. Mhm.


I was gonna say like uh I had some failures like pretty authentic. I understand


True.


anything. Any fun like that is kind of like in a postal


Come on.


it is uh state is probably like the authentic because because I feel like it means it's like a lift a lot. Um, yeah. And like even


that's good.


even if you know what it's like, it's like many ways you can cook it as long as you don't like the weird thing with it. Like


But


I don't know.


she,


Like


isn't


sometimes,


it?


yeah, sometimes magazine would be like, oh, we make fun. We use clean lines that like the, the middle always like us. Like, like actually refers like the noodles. Like as long as you have a bronze in the noodle, you can call it fun. But like if you put pronunciation is like, no, that's terrible. And


no, that makes sense. Yeah.


yeah yeah. What? Obviously one of time it's kind of like to be in America is kind of like, yeah, it's really like an Irving. Um,


Yeah. Yeah. Do you do you know when you're going to like go back to Vietnam and see


I


your


don't,


family?


uh, so I was actually gonna like go back to visit this summer like right before like the kinetic I was, I have to take the books like end of april and like I think beginning in january, my mom called me and told me I have to cancel because I think I always wanted to pay for starting and I really spent close to china um, cancer it luckily because then you know, everything blows up. I like um, yeah, now


Yeah.


I just don't think it can come back until maybe like next year. Um,


Next


just yeah, because


Okay.


I don't wanna get stuff


That's bad.


in Vietnam and like even if I come back, I have to quarantine for two weeks at least. Can't


Two


like uh uh


huh


What what part of Vietnam are you from?


So I'm from the south, from a coaching main line from Saigon


Uh huh. Okay. Cool. Cool. Yeah,


look.


I have I have a couple of friends who are from Saigon to Yeah.


There's a lot of enemies like around this area, which is, which is nice. I like it.


It's very nice. Yeah. I find um I found a lot of my Vietnamese friends like are really good at dancing so


Yeah. Well we like that saying.


and yeah. Yeah, it's nice. I feel


that


like,


system


I feel like, I feel like whenever I see them dance I'm just like, wow, they're so good. How did they do that? And then like they make it look so easy but then when I try to do it it's like I don't know it just doesn't it just doesn't look great.


For dancing and this is really hard. Um I mean I'm probably not as good as your friend because I also just like a billionaire but yeah like that was like really good. I do you mean stance er at my school we have like a cup like to live. Uh but yeah it's definitely definitely takes takes a lot of time cut. Just like everything. Uh huh Yeah I want to a little bit out for it so


Mhm. Do you watch any shows?


Uh huh I used to watch a live show, I watch a lot to come like you know like the office and like things are having like reference.


In the Office.


Yeah. Yeah I see you just watch whatever like netflix recommend me most of the time. Fun. Especially now that we're staying home so much. Okay.


Have you seen Black Mirror?


Oh yeah, looks like you're definitely


like


smell.


I think I think it's done now though, I don't know if they're released in another season


Yeah, it's pretty hard to film her. She said, I feel like I feel like the longer it goes on is this like I mean it's stupid and goodbye thing like like the latest season aren't as good as like the first few seasons. Um It's also like after a while it does get like a little bit repented like the concept is two different but you're not like like I like the same kind of like the kind of like get a relapse no leo season but it's still like amazing show. It's still like probably like one of the best like netflix best show.


Yeah. Yeah I would say so too. Mhm.


Yeah it's really good. Yeah. Have you seen Russian Doll is also not netflix and it's like really good.


I haven't I haven't what what is it about?


so it's about this woman who dies on her birthday but then she has just like reset and she's just kind of relive the same day over and over again and she has to figure out why like she just kept dying on her birthday. It's kind of


and


interesting.


this is like and this is a series? Mhm.


but it's pretty it's pretty short, I think I watched the entire thing was in one day. Um Yeah,


Mhm. That's cool. Mhm.


Very good show. Um


Yeah mm I feel like I've been so bored during quarantine it was like nothing


everyone, yeah.


Yeah


Um


mm.


Mhm.


Okay.


Yeah, I


Yeah.


saw my friend, but I kinda like an outdoor picnic, so we're like how far our outdoor last week, I was like the first time I've seen in three months, which is like, I mean


that's


we didn't


a long time.


call it sometimes, but it's like a long time. Well,


Mhm definitely. I still think that's like quite long. Um I haven't seen anyone at work since March and it just feels like, I don't know, it just feels like it's not like some people, I just like don't even really remember anymore,


Because


like some people that that I haven't uh that I only met like once or twice. Yeah. Yeah.


it must be. Well, yeah, I was saying I


Are


was


you?


saying so I


go


see


ahead.


the co worker a lot because I work in a lab, but like well like have like doing a schedule, we don't like we'll be at the same time, so yeah, I was just gonna call, go straight, What were you trying to say?


Uh Oh, I was I was just saying um so like uh since you work in a lab, you did you like could you work remotely before um the pandemic?


Um So before and then it almost like never work remotely um Mostly because I worked really close, a very close the words, I just have no reason to came in. Um at the beginning of the pandemic, I was working from home was kind of doing more like data analysis and just doing some other background research, but I think lungs massachusetts like pass. So we have a face reopening. So um like non customers to this and more on essential side business get to open first. And that's when that's when I went back to work. Uh do we know in face going? And now we have like more stuff um we open um which is great, but I hope we're not moving too fast. Yeah.

Okay. Uh huh. Mm. Yeah. Oh. Uh huh. Mm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mhm. Uh Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm.


Yeah. Yeah. No, I hope so too, because my company is already in Phase three and that means


To me,


like 50% capacity, which


charlie.


is a lot. Yeah. But yeah, I was gonna mention something earlier. You said your mechanical engineering, right? And my sister is also a mechanical


That's


engineering.


awesome. Yeah. That's a bad thing to do.


Yeah, but she's a she's a sophomore now, she's a junior actually, or she's going to be a junior.


Yeah. Yeah, it's like a great discipline because um can you just like really go into almost anything uh with mechanical engineering actually, because everything needs a little bit, we can't go to work. Yeah.


definitely.


Well, you see a company it's like at 50% or is it like Pennsylvania Open at 50


It's the company like building, so


always?


headquarters, like the headquarter building is in um Times Square, which is where I work. Um and they they're at 50% capacity. Uh but but like that's but they still stress like working from home. Um And also like I I feel like they can't force us to go back. Um If if we like if we feel uncomfortable with it, and also like some people live with like high risk, like like their parents are like their roommate as high risk um or just like might be hard for like for example me, I'm like in pennsylvania, so like driving over there would be like two hours or like 2.5 hours. So it'll be a long time.

Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah.


That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah,


Yeah,


I


it's


would


just


imagine.


like not realistic.


Well imagine if you like, because it seems like so you didn't consult him or like it seems like it was just just like be able to let your mental work from home because, you know, it's not that physical,


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think it's nice that I am able to work from home and also like the work is lighter because I don't have to go to the client site which is


you know?


Um Like I feel like going to the clients that sometimes takes up like even more time and then like when I end up coming home sometimes it's like seven or like eight o'clock but like but like working at home you just like call the client or you just like email them and then um I mean I just like log off at five, it's like pretty nice. Yeah.


Yeah. Yeah, I imagine.


Mm Yeah. But it also gets kind of like um kind of like lonely and boring because like you're always by yourself but but in the office you can definitely like grab lunch with someone or like grab coffee or like have like team team like lunches and stuff, which is nice. Yeah.


my company is trying to do kind of like, just like, it's almost like a happy hour, which is kind of like half, like an hour meeting, which is kinda like talk and like I'm like wait games together. She's pretty fun. Yeah. Help me you know? As long because like half of the company does work from home because they do not like blackboard stuff. Um


Uh What company was it again?


So so we are waste water treatment company will actually start up so it's like pretty small. That's why you know we have fun things like just happy hour and stuff like that. Yeah. It's also


That's


kind of like we're being a star up, you know? Pandemic time slot of


definitely


this.


is. Yeah, no, I'm sure they'll do well though. Um I think like a smaller company is also kind of nice because I feel like it's more personable, like you definitely like know everyone much like on a closer level than like a large company, so you know.


that's true. Yeah. Yeah. I really like to do I worked with so it's nice to like know


them.


good. That's good. Yeah, that's good. So how many people do you live with currently?


Oh I live with Briana housemaid because it's because his boss to everyone, we were like a huge number of housemates, we can afford rent here. Um Yeah, but they're really


That's nice.


I am enjoying it.


Yeah, that's really nice. Are they like friends from college?


Yeah. I have friends from college.


That's good. Yeah, I think it's always nice uh like rooming with people that, you know um when I was when I was in the city, I was like with like random people and it like wasn't wasn't very great. Mhm. Ah You have so much hair


Yeah. Yeah. It's growing out because I mean I have


pandemic?


short hair, so even even if it goes out really um I like cut my own hair like


that's good.


midway through


I don't I don't


is


know how


that


to cut my own hair.


still hot? Yeah.


Yeah, my hair is also getting really long too. Um Mhm. Super long, right? Yeah, maybe after pandemic is over and cut my hair. Yeah.


don't know. I don't know what it's really over. Uh huh


This do you work full time? Okay.


want from china.


Okay. Yeah, I I feel like um now that I'm at home, I I like I technically work full time, but I don't really like have uh work that takes up all my time. So I just kind of like I kind of grew up going prolific or like other websites um just do little things here and there. Yeah.


Australia. Yeah, so I mean I work full time, but we know last like three days a week and then two days to do more from home. It's just like yeah, somehow I feel the same way just like just like do a bunch of color, a little busy work like well like Philip rhesus don't have that much stuff you can do from home and just I was just being home, my planning writing down, let's see like, like bullets, five bullets what I'm gonna do when I go into a lab. What's that? Right. Oh


I make checklists at work to um I like writing it down more than like keeping on my phone. I think it definitely lays it out better for me, I guess.


Well,


Yeah. Are you? I'm actually I'm actually thinking of like moving back and actually I have to have to move back into the city um Probably at the end of this year, like early next


but


year um when like the


But


whole building kind of opens up because I have to like


I Oh right.


because my my boyfriend he's going to Colombia for grad school, so uh it's just easier like living together um when we're both in the same city. Yeah.


huh.


Yeah.


No. Oh yeah. We're gonna be living like in Manhattan or is it gonna be like have like one of the other? Uh


Uh So so I used to live in Queens which was um I don't know if you're familiar, it's it's to the east of Manhattan, Yes to the east. Uh and then Jersey is to the west of Manhattan. Um So I used to live in Queens, but I'm gonna be living in uh side eye area when I go back to is like um the area that's like below uh midtown midtown Manhattan. Midtown is where times squares. Yeah. Yeah, so it's like it's like a below, it's like where like the tip of Manhattan is on the bottom.

Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm mm. Okay. Okay. Oh,


I see. It must be expensive living there.


Yeah, it's pretty expensive. It's


Black.


um The apartment we're currently looking at is like nearly 4000, so it's pretty expensive. Uh But like I don't know, we're still looking at different places because like we're not definitely going to go with that one. Um It's just like the nicest one that we've seen. Yeah.


Um


Mhm.


But yeah, I don't I don't really think we're I don't think we're going to go with something like that expensive because it's like kind of kind of like too expensive. Yeah. Yeah.


Okay.


Yeah. But I will actually actually I would have in my life things are much more expensive than that because it's 22 people. But even in boston if you like live in the Cambridge area is like You obviously like $2,000 per person per month. Uh and for some reason I just thought like Manhattan would be like, I don't know much more because I have some friends at work I guess in Silicon Valley and like they're like very upset about the whole situation now because I can't end at least. And it's just like


Oh yeah, it sucks.


$2,000 a month.


Yeah. Yeah.


Just just


No, no, no.


lets


Manhattan


it.


is definitely like like uh More like a lot of them are a lot more expensive than um like what I was talking about 4000. Um but 4000 would be for like a one bedroom, so that's kind of like quite expensive. Um But like but like since I'm sharing it um you know, like we would split it, but there are definitely like apartments that are like more expensive than that, but I like we can't we can't really afford it. So I'm looking at this. Yeah.


So I think your video cut out. Um


Oh, that's weird. Can you see me?


No.


Uh huh. That's weird. I can see you. Yeah.


I think um it was really nice talking to you.


Yeah, it was nice talking to you too. So um


Yeah. I


you


hope you find


said that.


a good apartment.


Yeah. Thanks. Um I hope I hope you do well in like your research and you're able to see your parents again. Was your flight back? Um, so I I just have a question that you couldn't see my video like just a couple of moments ago or like what was the


Just like it just disappeared. I think when you were talking about like the other houses in Manhattan,


Okay. Okay. I okay. I don't know. It's kind of weird. Mm. So


Mhm.


do we just close this window after we're done or? So?


I think I think we just clicked. All right. I'm gonna close it right now. Talking to you. Bye.