1. We are still under constraints due to the GI illness. We still can't serve ourselves salt or pepper or coffee or cookies. We still need to ask the librarian for books instead of picking them out ourselves. The laundromat is still closed, though there is now a sign on the door that says "Inconvenience Is Highly Regretted". Yet somehow the slot machines in the casino are as available as ever. Maybe gamblers don't spread germs.
2. Newly installed racks of white paper bags (referred to by a friend as "gag bags") have appeared beside every elevator door. It is unclear whether these are related to the GI illness or to our upcoming transit around Cape Horn.
3. The ocean is calm, the sky is clear, the sun is bright, but it is noticeably chilly on deck, probably because we are moving south from Montevideo toward the Falkland Islands and thence to Antarctica. I am knitting furiously on the hat intended to keep me warm once we get there.
Might you soon see penguins? At least near Antarctica?
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