Ship me somewheres east of Suez

[sovay]

My life remains a double-tracked medical cavalcade, but selkie has just informed me of the latest development in the Suez: "theyre actually doing it! ever given has been there so long that theyre actually going around the cape of good hope like 1700s scurvy patients oh my god."

I can only imagine how nervous the Panama Canal must be feeling right now. I just checked and thank God the dredging of Boston Harbor is proceeding on schedule. If we Storrowed a container ship, we'd never live it down.

P.S. The breeze coming through the window smells like the ocean; there was a gyre of seagulls visible above the roofs in the afternoon. It is coincidental but pleasant, considering all the chanteys I now have stuck in my head.

Comments

[larryhammer]

A thing you need to know exists.

[sovay]

A thing you need to know exists.

"For the wider we our canals to build,
The less chance we have of up to 12% of global shipping being keeled."

Thank you.

[larryhammer]

Bù kèqì

[choco_frosh]

ROTFL[Trying to stifle my giggling so it doesn't disturb [roommate's] Zoom class]; and of course this exists.

[larryhammer]

I know, right? It's a disaster of McGonagallian proportions, unraveling in realtime.