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-Biology textbook quote: "Cilia and flagella move when microtubules bend", section 4.18-

I had a dream last night that I was a diplomat. Or at least the spouse of one, but it seems I was doing diplomatic stuff on my own as well..? Dreams do have a way of involving me in the action, even if I was originally supposed to be a bystander. And as to the subject? Well, I did a report in high school that included a section about the Iran Hostage Crisis, and I had to use a primary source... so I picked Robert Ode's diary. Really absorbing (and long!), that diary sort of sparked a newfound interest in diplomatic crises and how they affect people.

As promised: Step Two: The Sisyphean Faucet.

Once you are in the proper depths of the Slough of Despair, it is permissable to throw up your hands and give up on the Mirror. You will notice that (unless you have thrown it away in disgust) you are presently holding in your hands a Still Moistened Cleaning Towelette (which bears little resemblance to the PreMoistened Cleaning Towelettes encased in small packages in chicken wing restaurants), begging to be used. You will look for something else that needs to be Shiny. Your eyes will probably light upon the Sisyphean Faucet first, which is unfortunate but strangely irresistable. The SF (again, referring to the Faucet and not, as may be expected, an eccentric bayside city) is, and perhaps will always remain, an enigma. When you first approach with your Still Moistened Cleaning Towelette, it will appear that grime fairly leaps off the SF in its eagerness to become one (synergistically!) with the Towelette. The SF will even, shockingly, assume an almost Shiny luster, evoking the fluid, molten metal from whence it was first forged, a poetry of silvern wonders! This makes up for all, all you suffered at the tyrannical foot of the Mirror!

How sublime, how sweet it tastes to finally throw away the Still Moistened (but now rather begrimed) Cleaning Towelette, and to bath your hands beneath such a work of art, washing away all traces of glass cleaner from your grateful digits!

And, how subsequently depressing to realize that to turn the water off, you must splash new water spots all over the Sisyphean Faucet.

Next episode: Step 3: The Toothpaste-entombed Sink

Now perform a reality check, kindly. Especially if you are in SF.