Good goddamn. Diana Nyad is attempting to swim from Cuba to Florida about a month after an asthma attack aborted her previous attempt. She's 62. I'd missed that she was giving it another go. But I get it.

She got hit with a Portuguese man o'war this morning, but is still going. It's 103 fucking miles. I do that in 2 months , and have never done more than 2.5 miles in a go.

She got hit with a Portuguese man o'war this morning

Aren't those poisonous? Like, dangerously so?

I went out and met strangers from the internets! Writing strangers from the tweety, in fact -- a loosely Philly-centric writing group, which is less about talking shop and more about drinking, but I'm good with that. And two other members live right here in West Chester, too, which is awesome!

Then I came home and S. and Sara had made really deliciously chocolatey chocolate chip cookie bars, so it's a been a very nice evening.

Yep. Got a steroid shot and some o2, changed suits and put on a shirt and kept fucking going.

That sounds awesome, Amy! Particularly the chocolate chip cookie bar ending. Well, maybe not particularly, but right now, I would love that so much. I'm contemplating seeing whether I have the ingredients to make brownies.

Sara dumped ALL the chips in, so they are Very Chocolatey.

A girl after my own heart, that one.

She is so cute. When I came home, she had just gotten out of the shower, and she was very excited to tell me she had put the water on All By Herself, and adjusted the temp, and washed her own hair, and then turned it off and got out All By Herself, too. (And she was actually clean, and shampoo free!)

I got a little melty, although I'm sure the two beers helped.

Way to go, Sara! I am impressed, because I remember my first attempt at my own shower, and it did not go well. There may have been tears. In my defense, it was a weird shower that had side spigots and the top shower head, and it was complicated, and there was water coming from every direction, and I was short, and, and... yes, it traumatized me.

Ahem, sorry. Let's get back to, yay, Sara!

Philly-centric writing group

which one, Amy? Liars club?

she was very excited to tell me she had put the water on All By Herself,

go Sara!

which one, Amy? Liars club?

No, although someone mentioned that. It's just called Philly Lit Night, and like I said, there is not a lot of talk of writing involved. Some, but it's generally at the very start of the get-together, and even then it's more, "How's everyone's work coming along, any news to report," that kind of thing.

I just looked up the Liars Club. They're fairly serious about themselves, yes?