I'd better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough

In fact, there is free wi-fi at the hotel. It took us seven hours to get here: Boston to Orlando by way of St. Louis, Birmingham, and a surprising quantity of screaming small children. (Who all got on for the last leg of the flight! Why?) It is immaterial; we had a splendid dinner at Emeril's (calamari with garlic-stuffed olives, andouille-crusted redfish for me and a mixed grill plate with short ribs and shrimp and risotto for derspatchel, a chocolate soufflé so decadent it could collapse whole empires single-handed and I'd had no idea Nocello was a thing I liked) and played goofy alien-themed mini golf on the CityWalk and now we are listening to YouTube videos of the dearly departed Adventurers Club and miscellaneous songs off the iPod Rob's just plugged into the bedside clock. I suspect we are not going to remain awake much longer. So far, trip: success.

I don't want to send secondhand notes to you, my friend, about the sea

My poem "Deinde Centum," written in August for asakiyume and selidor, has been accepted by inkscrawl. The title is from Catullus. The rest was from taking a late-night shower. This happens.

We could hear coasters when we woke up.

It is going to be a good day

Up past your head, down your back, around your ankles

Today we rode: Hulk (twice), Doctor Doom's Fearfall, Spider-Man, Ripsaw Falls, Jurassic Park, took time out for lunch at Mythos (which is visually on the order of Tiberius' villa at Capri, but the food was genuinely amazing: mahi-mahi with cilantro cream and plantains, yes, please), and then Harry Potter, the Dragon Challenge, The Cat in the Hat (because it is just delightfully done), and then we went back for Hulk and the Fearfall again as the sun was setting, the sky smoky peach and the line of the horizon flipped over black as the coaster roared upside down. It was absolutely beautiful. I thought when I was eleven that I'd be in space by the time I was the age I am now; at least, I thought it might not be unusual. That doesn't look like the future I've found myself in. As long as I'm stuck on this planet, I'm going to get all the feelings of flight I can.