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

[ethelmay]

Arrrggh. So sorry about the doctor's appointment. I hope the smoke abates everywhere. It can't be good for you either. We get enough of it in Seattle (usually later in the year) that I have an air quality monitor going all the time, and run air purifiers and the furnace fan with a new air filter when there's actual smoke.

[sovay]

Arrrggh. So sorry about the doctor's appointment.

Thank you. I had looked forward to it helping.

I hope the smoke abates everywhere. It can't be good for you either. We get enough of it in Seattle (usually later in the year) that I have an air quality monitor going all the time, and run air purifiers and the furnace fan with a new air filter when there's actual smoke.

Understandable, but let me express a reciprocal eugh. We ran the air conditioner all day as a form of filtration and I didn't go outside without an N95. And also used my inhaler.

[kore]

Yeah, we also live in Seattle, and after the past couple of years, I now have like four AQ apps on my phone, and we got a giant air purifier. I guess we just have a smoke season now.