Image Source: Know Your Meme Gulp. So, remember how I said I preferred virtual school to all of my previous experience in 9th grade going to school thus far? I still stand by that opinion. However, I think that the realities of this whole coronavirus thing have actually started to hit me, starting today of all days. I'm not one to panic or to compare it to a sci-fi film, but that's not what I realized. Factually, medical experts and professionals are currently working on ways to ease the pandemic and/or cure it all together, so I think it'd be safe to bet that it will be gone by the end of this year with a 99.99% certainty. Zika anyone? Ebola? Whatever other diseases (oh well, I'm not good at remembering previous outbreaks other than the Black Death, which is not a good example as it happened in the 1300s and involved fleas on rats, not viruses on bats). Anyways, the thing that I realized is that social distancing sucks. Yes, I attempted to downplay this by say...

Image Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm To start this post with something about my daily life, as I'm writing this my little brother just came back home from his piano evaluation. He was stressing all day about it yesterday, and was scared that if he made even one mistake with his song in front of the judge, he would automatically get a silver medal recital instead of a gold medal one. I also have my evaluation right before noon, and I am not very worried. Him and I practiced in public yesterday (since our electronic piano at home's sensitivity settings are wack) on a piano, and when we were both done, a man walked up to the piano, sat down, and started playing awesome jazz music by memory. His fingers moved with energy and skill across the keys, and filled the entire massive public space with the loud, joyous funky sounds of piano jazz. When it was over, he got off the seat and we all applauded him and waved back to him to have a good day. When my little brother walked into my...