Hello, we made it to Friday. I'm here in the closet of my back bedroom. Are you also home?

It's almost the weekend, and you know what that means for me? I'll still be home. So we thought

one way we could help organize this long stretch of uncertain time is with some assignments,

homework assignments.

Here's your first one.

This week, you've helped us start building a pandemic toolkit.

It's a Google spreadsheet of things that have helped you, things to listen to, things to watch,

things to do, places to give.

There's a link to that in our show notes.

Your assignment this weekend is to do something

off that toolkit and then send us a field report. It can be a picture, a voice memo, anything,

and we'll share some of those reports back with you in our newsletter next week. So here are some

ideas from the toolkit. Robin recommends making smitten kitchens chickpea nachos. She said, making something that requires

just enough effort to feel like you accomplish something, but without having to work that hard.

Our colleague Kim Noaki recommends listening to some REM. After she screamed, danced to,

it's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine, and she found it very cathartic.

I am going to take Aaron's advice and tackle that home improvement or cleaning project you've been wanting to finish.

I have a stripped screw situation that is keeping a window from closing properly.

And God help me, I'm going to fix that this weekend.

Send your field reports to us to death,

sex money at WNYC.org. It can be a photo, a voice memo recording, an email telling us what you did,

and send it in by Monday morning, and then we'll share with all of you how you are putting this

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