It started long before last November. The longest presidential election ever, covered nonstop by the media since shortly before Obama’s 2012 re-election, was when it started.

Yesterday a tiny bottle of oil arrived in the mail from Lena. She’s been checking on me a lot, which is wonderful and annoying. Wonderful because I always feel a friend deficit, even though I shouldn’t, and annoying because I have to text her back and the letters…