You can't run for your whole life with two truths and a lie
I forgot to bring the camera this overcast afternoon when I walked around for my usual hour between appointments, but I had promised ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ashlyme a picture of Lechmere Canal. I walked up along the Cambridge Parkway and under the bridge that carries Edwin H. Land Boulevard over the canal, then doubled back and paralleled to the Lechmere Viaduct as far as the Science Park T stop, with a brief detour into the North Point Park to check out what looked like construction on the drawbridge out of North Station, although mostly I saw two people in hi-vis vests changing off a shift at a small skeletal structure that I hope is an addendum to the old signal tower of the Boston & Maine Railway, not a replacement for it. There was a push tug by the name of Brahma out of Salisbury, Massachusetts floating on the other side of the viaduct. I found my way to MGH through the tower blocks that replaced the West End; I came out at an amazing conjunction of multiple grafts of architecture. I did not visit the Ether Dome.
As promised, Lechmere Canal. Constructed 1895, I'm not sure when it was shortened to its present dimensions. Based on the maps I have access to, after 1930. Behind me is a sort of pool with a bandstand and a fountain. Boat tours embark there in the summer.
I am just very fond of this obsolete lock. There were a pair of tugboats moored at the bollards when I was a child.
At the back of MGH. I think the last time I saw one building consuming another like that was in Dark City (1998).
I have slept maybe one real night's worth this week. Agh.
ashlyme a picture of Lechmere Canal. I walked up along the Cambridge Parkway and under the bridge that carries Edwin H. Land Boulevard over the canal, then doubled back and paralleled to the Lechmere Viaduct as far as the Science Park T stop, with a brief detour into the North Point Park to check out what looked like construction on the drawbridge out of North Station, although mostly I saw two people in hi-vis vests changing off a shift at a small skeletal structure that I hope is an addendum to the old signal tower of the Boston & Maine Railway, not a replacement for it. There was a push tug by the name of Brahma out of Salisbury, Massachusetts floating on the other side of the viaduct. I found my way to MGH through the tower blocks that replaced the West End; I came out at an amazing conjunction of multiple grafts of architecture. I did not visit the Ether Dome. 
As promised, Lechmere Canal. Constructed 1895, I'm not sure when it was shortened to its present dimensions. Based on the maps I have access to, after 1930. Behind me is a sort of pool with a bandstand and a fountain. Boat tours embark there in the summer.
I am just very fond of this obsolete lock. There were a pair of tugboats moored at the bollards when I was a child.
At the back of MGH. I think the last time I saw one building consuming another like that was in Dark City (1998).
I have slept maybe one real night's worth this week. Agh.
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Thank you! I have been trying. It just hasn't been working.
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Also, yes, trying to sleep when you can't suuuccckks.
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I came back from my excruciatingly early appointment this morning and went to bed for three and a half hours, which I don't think hurt.
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Wishing you more sleep. *hugs*
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You're welcome! Today, of course, was full of beautiful photographic sunlight, when I had no time to take advantage of it.
Wishing you more sleep.
I napped!
*hugs*
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One can become fixated with natural light operating rooms of that general area. On the day I visited the one in London, there was another tourist who had seen the MGH one, and we chatted about the comparison (they're a lot alike, as one would expect).
http://oldoperatingtheatre.com/
On the history of ether use, this is very good, and a bit sad. If you look at the monument in the Public Garden, you'll notice that it rightly skirts the issue of original idea. Really, the first likely use in anesthesia was in dentistry, and not in Boston.
https://www.amazon.com/Ether-Day-Americas-Greatest-Discovery/dp/0060933178
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I have! I went with
Really, the first likely use in anesthesia was in dentistry, and not in Boston.
This is reminding me that, when I have some rest and intelligence, I should write about Corridors of Blood (1958), a stylishly fictional penny dreadful account of the discovery of anesthesia by Boris Karloff in 1841.
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of unconsciousness!
(I did nap this afternoon.)
*hugs*
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I had some extremely peculiar double vision walking down Broad Canal. I knew I wasn't going to see anything, but I had spent so much time visualizing the thing that wasn't there, it was still strange to see its absence. I wonder if this is how urban legends start.
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Maybe it's one of the way ghosts do make themselves known--by playing with light and forms and working on our imaginations.
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I think I would feel less weird having channeled a ghost than having created one.
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Thank you!