With no classes tonight, I have four hours for novel-writing. :) But... I think I might start with a warm-up poem that came to mind when I read this wild medical news story.
Life is very, very strange sometimes.
It is an extraordinary thing to survive.
#News
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/russian-woman-has-lived-80-years-with-needle-in-her-brain-doctors-discover
To quote The Old 97's, "Life will be the death of me," @MLClark 😉