this year is officially surreal

[dchenes]

I forgot to mention that when my mother called her boss to arrange for not going to work last week, she found out that the company that owns the store she works for declared bankruptcy and is closing the store next week. 50% of my nuclear family is now losing its jobs, and my mother's job is (of course) the one with the health insurance.

I really wish I knew how to get bad things to stop happening to my family members. It's making me not want to answer my phone any more, because it seems like every time I do, there's a new catastrophe on the other end of it.