Time to get crackin’! On what, I don’t know. I’ve been working all day. Time to wind things down, actually.

This afternoon I was walking in my backyard and swallowed a fly. I don’t know why. Actually I do, and it was on purpose. I had been on the phone (for some reason Verizon has all of a sudden started giving me extremely choppy reception in the house, where it’s always worked perfectly before) so I went out to the backyard which helped things reception-wise for this call, but at some point in the middle of opening my mouth to utter an unspecific word, some kind of fly flew right in and lodged itself in my throat. It felt like it was stuck there; I couldn’t cough it out or swallow it down. I had been talking to my friend (who heard me coughing and trying to get the thing out) while commenting to the bug (and her, tangentially), “Make up your mind! Either get in or get out!” Eventually I had to go back inside and have a drink. “Extra protein, you know. My stomach acid’ll kill if it’s not already dead.”