The plumbers came this morning at the crack of legality and after spending several hours filling the apartment with metallic whining sounds which left us wondering if they were cutting through pipe, determined that whatever the nature of the problem with the plumbing, it cannot be fixed through our ceiling and will in fact need to be fixed from the second-floor bathroom of the upstairs apartment. They have replaced the insulation and sheetrock of the bathroom ceiling and we are waiting to hear if the plasterer can come this afternoon. We are no longer sure why our ceiling was torn out in the first place, causing such disruption that it effectively ate all of last week.
I have had two doctor's appointments so far this week and have three to go, including another this afternoon. So far one has been neutral to reassuring and the other has been demoralizing to rage-making. I guess the rest of the week is flip a coin.
Have some links.
1. On the refugees of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the lives they built after the eruption of 79. I had not realized the regional names were distinctive enough that families could be accurately tracked by them. The fostering by one refugee family of a child who was likely the sole survivor of his own family is the kind of thing that folds up two thousand years.
2. Julia Rios has posted in further detail about All in Among the Briars: An Anthology of Mythic Wonder (2024), including the table of contents and the introduction. The fundraiser for Jessica and Jeremy Wick is still ongoing. Grief shouldn't cost more than it already does.
3. Boston-area people in need of more queer space screwball in your lives, tomorrow evening Brookline Booksmith is hosting the launch party for Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con (2024) with the author in person. The long weekend of Noir City Boston at the Brattle does not overlap the event, but kind of metaphysically should.
I have had two doctor's appointments so far this week and have three to go, including another this afternoon. So far one has been neutral to reassuring and the other has been demoralizing to rage-making. I guess the rest of the week is flip a coin.
Have some links.
1. On the refugees of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the lives they built after the eruption of 79. I had not realized the regional names were distinctive enough that families could be accurately tracked by them. The fostering by one refugee family of a child who was likely the sole survivor of his own family is the kind of thing that folds up two thousand years.
2. Julia Rios has posted in further detail about All in Among the Briars: An Anthology of Mythic Wonder (2024), including the table of contents and the introduction. The fundraiser for Jessica and Jeremy Wick is still ongoing. Grief shouldn't cost more than it already does.
3. Boston-area people in need of more queer space screwball in your lives, tomorrow evening Brookline Booksmith is hosting the launch party for Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con (2024) with the author in person. The long weekend of Noir City Boston at the Brattle does not overlap the event, but kind of metaphysically should.
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