You're sitting here wondering what it's all about

I am doing much better now, but I just spent seven and a half hours in Mount Auburn's ER for reasons that were both surprising and extremely painful and I should like not to repeat the experience, please.

Immediate plans: sleep. I insist on not missing the marathon on Sunday.

Way out of the reach of the sea

Thank you for all the good wishes on the last post. Today has been profoundly mediocre, but I did spend an hour this afternoon in the bath reading Mary Stewart's Wildfire at Midnight (1956) and that was really pleasant. I couldn't remember the last time I took an actual bath as opposed to a shower or a soak in a hot tub. I'm still disappointed that it doesn't give me a mermaid's tail.