Day in the Life of an Idiot

I'm sorry about the quilt, or rather about the occasion of its dismemberment. But I'm sure it was the right decision. I sometimes, going over one or another of my books for some reason, experience a vivid recollection of sitting curled in a corner handwriting the first draft, or impatiently shutting down a YouTube ad, depending on when the book was written. So I do see your point.

Some years ago, David gave me a cleaned-up boxed set of all the original Star Trek episodes. I keep meaning to watch them in order, which even the thought of calls back the family room in the house we lived in when the series premiered: the asphalt tiles spattered with gray and black spots over a concrete subfloor (heated in the winter!), the sliding glass door that always admitted the afternoon sun at the time Star Trek first aired, my youngest brother rampaging around with his stuffed animals.

Anyway, I too picked out episodes to watch rather than doing anything organized. The first one I watched was "The Trouble with Tribbles" because David was watching with me, and the second was "The City on the Edge of Forever." I'm also fond of "The Devil in the Dark" (the Horta episode) and "Balance of Terror," which is the Romulan first-contact episode. It's really a repurposed submarine thriller, and I'd been reading a bunch of books of that sort at the time the episode first aired.

For pure hurt/comfort extremely gratuitous very idtastic stuff (for the show; any fanfic can surpass it), "The Empath" is interesting.

"Turnabout Intruder" enrages me, but the actor playing the ambitious Starfleet member was really good when enacting Kirk trapped in HER body. She was a lot subtler than Shatner.

P.