With love from Seattle

So, am sitting here at Sureshot because my wireless connection oddly did not function at the U-W library. This was both stupid and annoying, and resulted in my ducking into the aforesaid coffeeshop to make sure that it was the fault of the connection (which seemed unlikely, since it was the library!) and not my poor battered little machine. And lo, and behold! It works!.

Am now downloading the rest of the articles that I need, and then I will either continue working from here, and drinking Seattle drip coffee, or I will head back to E's place and work from there. After which I'm meeting E. and some other friends for a picnic in Gasworks Park.

I'm doing better than I was - apologies to all concerned about the melodramatic teenage grandstanding. I'm working on enhancing my calm, and practicing my very elaborate series of "Fuck it! No worries!" Perhaps I will be uberzen when I return to the city. (Improbable, but hope springs eternal).

Then later tonight there will be an axolotl funeral. Apparently we will all be shrouded in pink tulle and there will be hats. Believe me, I share your alarm.