What remains? Every corner a new name

[sovay]

Today was unusually awful and exhausting and did not start to improve until the evening, but I want to note that I lost my wallet and keys in a downpour outside of Mass General Hospital and didn't find out until after my appointment was over and I was trying to put a piece of paper away in my suddenly nonexistent wallet and while they were soaked to the point that a check I am still hoping to deposit had almost dissolved, they had not only not been scooped off the street and stolen, they were sitting rather damply but plainly at the information desk of the Wang Building and I appreciate this enormously. Thank you, unknown person who did not make my day much, much worse! Also I have watched all ten hours of AMC's The Terror (2018) and loved everything about the show from acting to cinematography to Jared Harris' weird round wry haggard cat-face. Also Dakzen is an honest-to-God cheap eats in an escalatingly un-cheap town and I can add the ba mee moo dang to the list of dishes I recommend. Also the Tipping Cow now makes coconut-milk ice cream. Also our cats are nice.

Comments

[gwynnega]

How aggravating, but I'm very glad your wallet and keys could be found.

[nineweaving]

Oh, thank heavens! That's a wonderful feeling, finding what you fear is lost. I've had things restored, and I've rescued things over the years (a purse, a huge bunch of keys, several student IDs, which are also dorm keys), which feels nearly as good. Very glad your day took an upward turn.

Nine

[lilysea]

Yay! ^_^

I lost my credit card recently, and it wasn't handed in, but at least no one seems to have used it. Cancelled it and ordered a new one, which should arrive next Wednesday...

[thisbluespirit]

It is always good when someone hands something in like that. I'm sorry for the rest of the awful day, though.

Off-topic

[rydra_wong]

But I thought you might like to know that the ghost of a 17th-century garden has risen to join the forts:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-44951970

[choco_frosh]

:( on the first nine-tenths of your day.

[isis]

So you recommend The Terror? I was dithering about it. On the one hand, Tobias Menzies and Ciarán Hinds, history and the NORTHWEST PASSAGE. On the other hand, horror and ... demonic polar bears? Is it very gory?

[umadoshi]

I'm sorry the day overall was so awful, and glad that someone turned in your lost things. Fingers crossed for the bank accepting the poor sodden cheque!

Yay! for honest, thoughtful finders-not-keepers

[jesse_the_k]

My goodness. I'd love to sample Tipping Cow's ice cream, and the silly videos on their Kickstarter almost make up for my inability to taste it.

[selkie]

....one of my pocket parenting friends' kids works at Tipping Cow. World small.

[brigdh]

I'm sorry to hear your day was awful, though at least someone returned your wallet! Sometimes strangers are very kind.

And I'm glad to hear your thoughts on The Terror too. I really enjoyed the book, and have been meaning to get around to watching the show. The book, at least, was surprisingly faithful to the facts (as known in 2007, when it was written, at least), despite the horror-mythology additions.