Are you barely hanging on? Are you in disrepute?

[sovay]

To my interest and distress, the smoke drifting down across Boston from the Canadian wildfires has produced a perceptible change in the color of the sunlight on top of a twenty-four-hour air quality alert. It looks conch-tinted, brassy. I gather it is supposed to rain by evening, depriving us of a compensatory Krakatoa sunset.

Yesterday's doctor's appointment for which I got up on two hours' sleep and ate breakfast was not only not helpful to me, it was so actively bad that I came home and cried on spatch and cats and spent most of the afternoon in bed, after which I spent most of the evening on the couch with my three-months-early birthday present of J. Greco's The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941–1951 (1999) and a bunch of on-ride videos of roller coasters from parks I have never been to. The book is terrific. I am enjoying the detailed technical discussions of emotion and atmosphere and Greco's complaint: "What's worse than finding no materials on a significant film is finding too much on a mediocre one."

Comments

[kaffy_r]

I'm so sorry about the actively bad doctor appointment. You had every right to cry on shoulders and cats. I'd do that. May your next medical appointment be actively useful and helpful.

A few of the Nova Scotia fires are more under control thanks to some much-needed rain, but the forest fire in southern Shelburne county is still out of control and has taken 60 homes and more buildings. The first fire, near the Halifax exurb of Tantallon, is under control, but has destroyed or damaged 150 homes. There are thousands and thousands of hectares of flame and ash; it's not big compared to fires in Alberta or California, but for my tiny province, these are the worst fires in its history. A friend of mine, one of the people who organized our 50-year high school reunion, learned that her son and his family lost everything.

*has a thought*

You may also be getting some smoke from a Quebec fire.

[sovay]

I'm so sorry about the actively bad doctor appointment. You had every right to cry on shoulders and cats. I'd do that. May your next medical appointment be actively useful and helpful.

Thank you. I had truly not expected this one to be so bad.

*hugs*

There are thousands and thousands of hectares of flame and ash; it's not big compared to fires in Alberta or California, but for my tiny province, these are the worst fires in its history. A friend of mine, one of the people who organized our 50-year high school reunion, learned that her son and his family lost everything.

I'm so sorry. I hope everyone, at least, is safe.

(I think we are getting a sort of multi-province effect.)

[kaffy_r]

I'm so sorry. I hope everyone, at least, is safe.

That is one of the very broad silver linings, at least thus far; we've had no deaths, and I haven't heard about any bad injuries, which is always a possibility - especially amongst the firefighters, who have to really, truly, walk into smaller and larger hells. (Two of them rescued an old gentleman who didn't know what was going on, and they had to drive back through flames to safety, but that's the closest I've heard of.

(I think we are getting a sort of multi-province effect.)

Yeah, totally likely. I hope the air quality near you gets better quickly.

[sovay]

That is one of the very broad silver linings, at least thus far; we've had no deaths, and I haven't heard about any bad injuries, which is always a possibility - especially amongst the firefighters, who have to really, truly, walk into smaller and larger hells.

May they all stay safe.

[kaffy_r]

Indeed.