I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.

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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson. It is the month of May and my cat is like

super getting sick of me, which means this must be another edition of NERDET's introverts guide

to the good life. I don't know about you, but the NERDET team has been working from home

since Friday, March 13th, which now that I think about it,

makes me think that maybe I should be taking Friday the 13th much more seriously.

We have been hunkering down for seven weeks, which means seven weeks of banana bread and

Zoom friend hangs and really shitty sleep and mulling over the things we should have done before stay-at-home

orders started. I am the first person to admit I am super lucky. I still have a job that involves

sitting on the floor of this closet. Lots of local bookstores here are still open. I have a really nice

yarn hookup. I upgraded my internet and somehow it's cheaper than it was before.

So I'm streaming to my heart's content. But my dog's toenails are getting like really long.

And my car could definitely use an oil change, which got all of us thinking.

If you somehow magically got like a one week warning before stay-at-home

stuff started, what would you have done? We put the question out to our listeners, and I got to say,

y'all did not disappoint. Hello, Nuredet, this is Andrea calling from Vancouver in Canada.

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