If you can get home from school at 9 P.M. and then have dinner in front of you by 9:13, and if dinner is a mixed-greens salad with walnuts and balsamic vinegar, and a sliced boiled egg on toast, and some sardines on toast, and said toasts are made with free cheese bread from the local bakery (thank you, Uprising boys), and there’s sea salt and black pepper sprinkled on everything, then you know you aren’t doing too poorly.

Um, even if the reason you left the library early was because, while quietly sitting there reading, you discovered your knee wound from falling down Thursday was turning yellow and kind of pus-y, and seemed to be bleeding anew, and you thought maybe you should be in a place where iodine was close by.