I woke up to the morning sky first

[sovay]

Greetings! I am aboard the hell o'clock train, otherwise known as the regional Amtrak; it is my intention for the day to see how much I can sleep in the quiet car. Right now there are some very beautiful streamers and shells of cloud in the dawn-faded blue of the sky, a kind of hand-gilding light on the passing verticals of bricks and concrete. Everything is so much greener than even the last time I took this line: the trees are bursting out like summer, not just blossoming. It is not fair of me to think that the man who just took a seat diagonal of me looks like he should be walking across a stage in that grey business suit and glasses, a briefcase in one hand and a bright red umbrella in the other. Further bulletins as consciousness warrants.

Comments

[dewline]

Good luck with the sleep!

[sovay]

Good luck with the sleep!

Thank you! I successfully managed to be unconscious through most of Connecticut into NYC, and am about to attempt the same through Pennsylvania until D.C.

[landingtree]

Greetings! It's good to read such a pleasant morning, in a place where it's just after midnight. I hope you sleep well.

[sovay]

Greetings! It's good to read such a pleasant morning, in a place where it's just after midnight. I hope you sleep well.

Thank you! I hope it's a nice midnight where you are.

[ashlyme]

Fingers crossed for the sleep, and I hope you and Selkie have a good time.

[sovay]

Fingers crossed for the sleep, and I hope you and Selkie have a good time.

Thank you! There has actually been some sleep, even in rather cricked and artificial positions, and I'm optimistic for more.

[choco_frosh]

Good luck with sleep! Good luck with concert! Safe travels!

[sovay]

Good luck with sleep! Good luck with concert! Safe travels!

Thank you!

[ethelmay]

"She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy..."

[sovay]

"She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy..."

I've decided he must know the woman on the platform at Penn Station who was wearing an olive-green silk boiler suit.

[ethelmay]

There is an Angela Thirkell wartime Barsetshire book in which a woman wanders around in a boiler suit, which people keep commenting on, "though why a boiler suit, I do not know," which I read long before I knew what a boiler suit (or for that matter a boiler) was. I was picturing a skirted suit made of boiled wool, which I thought might seem unpatriotic due to being associated with Austria. Come to think of it, we even had a boiler in our house, but we always just called it the furnace.

[sovay]

I was picturing a skirted suit made of boiled wool, which I thought might seem unpatriotic due to being associated with Austria.

That makes a certain amount of sense!

I still have some disjoint between clothes I recognize from reading about them and clothes I have seen people wear.

[selkie]

Be safe! Don't cause undue mayhem! Sleep well! See you soon! We didn't vacuum! Feel free to remind us to!

[sovay]

Be safe! Don't cause undue mayhem! Sleep well! See you soon! We didn't vacuum! Feel free to remind us to!

Can do! I mean the reminding! Mayhem is unpredictable! See you soon!

[wpadmirer]

That definitely sounds like a stage outfit.

[sovay]

That definitely sounds like a stage outfit.

It was very striking.

[thawrecka]

Sleep well and enjoy your trip!

[sovay]

Sleep well and enjoy your trip!

Thank you! So far, so good.

[sholio]

I hope your trip goes well! <3

[sovay]

I hope your trip goes well!

Thank you! The train ride was long, but everything since arriving has been very nice!