Quarantine - Day 36

Abi scores Gilgamesh

Have I mentioned how college interns make the world such a better place? Our paid intern, Abigail, who is also our daughter, who is also marooned here away from her life on campus as a St. Olaf junior and trying to make the best of it, offered to help edit video for Play In A Book.

She has now shot and edited 16 videos thoroughly on her own. For our Gilgamesh series, she took it upon herself to score each chapter with original music complete with leitmotif’s for each major character. She is doing all this for minimum wage. Perhaps we should task her with sales and set a goal of $500K in gross sales in order to qualify for the $500 bonus. I am convinced interns are like magic fairy dust for businesses. She is a finalist for a summer internship in LA at the Television Academy Foundation. If they want someone who can do whatever is needed using whatever is at hand, they should probably go ahead and choose her.

Bizarrely, the price for May Brent Crude plunged to -$30 below zero today having fallen from $71.32 per barrel a year ago. If this is Monday, what on Earth will Friday look like? With the sunshine still shining, after a decent day’s work Ella and I got out in the late afternoon for a bike ride around Horner Park and through the Manor. It was a good day and the beginning of another wild week in what has been a truly strange month in what will be likely known as a very unusual year. But each good day counts.