After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.

It was all determined; the steps were measured, and the way was fated. At each rank, the innumerable possibilities— two bunny steps and three baby steps, one scissors step, three giant steps and one umbrella step, a baby step and a scissor step...— these many possible roads were sorted, blocked, organized, and channelled, and only one of the potential itineraries was actually played out

This woman had the most extreme diastasis recti abdominales.

She was having the jimjam fits. Carried on like the crazy bitch she is.”