Put your boots on, do they fit you comfortably?

[sovay]

I forgot to bring my camera when I left the house to walk around the block this evening, but I saw a white hibiscus growing through a hedge and bees clustered around some brilliantly Halloweenish orange flowers. I have not had my head in the sand despite being under quite a lot of rocks this month, but I am still demoralized that an international friend's postcard could not reach me because of the intimidation theater of the tariffs. Nor am I thrilled that last week I had an unexpectedly bizarre interaction with a medical professional about Tylenol. I am much more cheered by the existence of ghost ponds and the renascent fern, not to mention the eleven-million-year-old asteroid no one knows yet where it hit. The Draconids peak on the eve of my birthday this year. Last week was still too many doctors, but I have hopes of fewer in the week to come. At least I managed for the first time on this new regimen to write about a film.

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[sabotabby]

Ghost ponds! That's so cool.

I was going to hold forth with a longtime Facebook friend who seems to have bought into the Tylenol hoax but I think other people must have laid into him because the post disappeared. Thank fuck. If I heard it from a medical professional I'd lose my shit entirely.

[sovay]

Ghost ponds! That's so cool.

I had no idea it was possible! rydra_wong let me know.

I was going to hold forth with a longtime Facebook friend who seems to have bought into the Tylenol hoax but I think other people must have laid into him because the post disappeared. Thank fuck. If I heard it from a medical professional I'd lose my shit entirely.

They were treating me as pharmacologically reckless because I had taken two extra-strength because I live with multiple layers of chronic pain (which I chronically undermedicate in any case) and can't take NSAIDs. It was like hitting a pre-programmed script whose origins I didn't like the implications of. I kind of hung up on them.