Reading about the evacuation of Dunkirk--not something I know much about. My first thought is 'What would Captain Pellew think?'
I don't really know much about WWII. And for years I could not bear to read about ships in peril. It always seems to be engine room crew that got hurt first. And even when I knew he was safely tootling through the ocean, I just couldn't put my mind there. No Titanic, no shipwrecks, no Indianapolis, no thanks.
Now husband is safe ashore. I can read about heroes with less trepidation.
He is having a good time with organic chem. He is struggling with Diff Eq. He is tired. Tonight, as he does every night he came home and unpacked his work bag, he likes to come in and read the mail and pat the dog, he has a little routine. And is one of those 'place for everything' people. (I am not-- it is well known that people who have a place for everything marry strewers like me. I suppose it results in hybrid vigor or something.) So I was rather surprised to find his notebook and school papers in the refrig tonight. maybe Maybe there is some good reason for it. They will come to no harm, and be nicely chilled by morning.
I don't really know much about WWII. And for years I could not bear to read about ships in peril. It always seems to be engine room crew that got hurt first. And even when I knew he was safely tootling through the ocean, I just couldn't put my mind there. No Titanic, no shipwrecks, no Indianapolis, no thanks.
Now husband is safe ashore. I can read about heroes with less trepidation.
He is having a good time with organic chem. He is struggling with Diff Eq. He is tired. Tonight, as he does every night he came home and unpacked his work bag, he likes to come in and read the mail and pat the dog, he has a little routine. And is one of those 'place for everything' people. (I am not-- it is well known that people who have a place for everything marry strewers like me. I suppose it results in hybrid vigor or something.) So I was rather surprised to find his notebook and school papers in the refrig tonight. maybe Maybe there is some good reason for it. They will come to no harm, and be nicely chilled by morning.
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Same cat ran out of the door today and tried to get on the elevator with a bunch of people. It's the little things, I swear.
We're going to do coffee at some point, right? 'Cause New Yorkers have to stick together. (In the subway in summer, particularly).
I suspect Ned would have highly approved of the Dunkirk evacuation and would have been right there in the thick of it organising the boats! I know what you mean about shipwrecks, even though none of my recent family have been to sea, I spent long enough growing up in an island to appreciate the dangers of the sea. When we were down at the Isle of Whithorn this weekend we saw several memorials to the Solway Harvester. I had to look away.
I hope husband's notes are nicely chilled this morning!
And places where ships can go are limited the same way. Even now you are limited by tide and the shape of harbors. When husband was on the Kennedy he was always pulling into Marseilles. Not the most pretty of French cities. (He described it to me as 'Detroit by the sea') But it has a nice deep harbor.
I am not advocating the strewer lifestyle. I am just observing that tidy people and strewers tend to pair off.
On the Indy there was little room for strewing - other than Ned who had 10 times as much strewing room as everyone else.
Think Ned would have been right in there directing operations - possibly with less mess had he been in charge but overwhelmnly focussed on saving life .