Birthday

 Today's my birthday!!!!!!

So it's my birthday today and I turned 21. It feels a bit weird that I had to turn 21, a bit of a contrived milestone in the life of a United states citizen to be more free and to be able to drink legally now. I spent my birthday focusing a bit on writing an essay for a class, as well as doing a midterm for one of my math classes. 

After I was done with that, with it being on a Tuesday,  in the evening I went on a zoom meeting with the writers group that I am apart of, once I joined, my mothers name was mother of birthday kid, so they remembered/knew it was my birthday. In the first couple of minutes before they started they wished me a happy birthday and we introduced ourselves again because we had a new person and that has been the norm for a while, we introduce ourselves and say what we like to read and or write. In the month of October the writers group was being lead and focused on how to create characters, so we talked about that for the rest of the time. 

After writers group, since it was my birthday I wanted to play the among us game with my family, so we got onto a zoom meeting at like 8pm EST or around there and 7 CST for my cousins and aunt who played. We played a little bit and they gave me happy birthday wishes. Throughout the day I got a couple of texts from my grandparents that both attended the zoom meeting and didn't. 

Introduction to me and covid for history project

Hey, so my name is James Batts and i'm a junior at the University of Kentucky for the fall 2020 semester . I am going to be turning 21 in October of this year. I am a white middle class male from a small Kentucky town outside of Lexington that has around 1200 people or so. I attended a public school system that got in the news a few times for some things. I'm a mathematics major and have a bit of coding knowledge. 

My sibling is diabetic and has a weaken immune system, my family has an VA doctor and a retired hospice nurse. So far my close family hasn't been affected by it much, but I do have a couple of relatives that went somewhere and then tested positive for the virus. One of those was cleared from it then it came back and it got a bit worse for that person. As far as I know that is the closest I've been in contact with this virus.

 I think that with my sibling having a weakened immune system has made it a bit difficult for us to try to not accidentally pass it on to them. I think that it's been a bit more of the burden with that but our lifestyle is a bit introverted, at least I am, so while it's been hard for some of my relatives because they are more extroverted, we don't socialize that much with them anyway so it's fine for now.