Happy Pandeversary (Patreon)

I know the official start date of our current reality is impossible to pin down, but March 16, 2020 was when it became real for me. I received a text from my coworker on the 15th telling me that our store, as well as all the stores in the company I work for, was closing indefinitely. We were all laid off. That meant we all had the option to be hired back, but when? How? In my adult life, I had never been without a job. I went to bed trying to process all of it. At 5:00am, I woke up in a cold sweat, failed to defecate, curled up on a pile of towels, and had a good old panic attack. It was, to my knowledge, the first one I ever had in my forty-two years on this planet. It was unpleasant, and I don’t care to have another.