8/19 The woman in the row in front of me on the train had a far-carrying alto voice and I was lucky enough to move one row further away from her before the train left. It’s not her fault that her voice carries that far, I thought. Then I realized she was talking non-stop throughout the entire journey, and I thought, well maybe that’s just her temperament. And then she told a story in which at some point she’d said “I want to talk to the principal”, and all the excuses collapsed.