To my great surpise, my crazy-looking neti pot showed up in the mail first thing this morning, less than 24 hours after I ordered it. When I placed the order online yesterday, I failed to notice that it wasn’t being shipped from some far-flung corner of the country, but rather from Worthing—about 11 miles from here. Go figure.

I’m afraid there’s not going to be any high-def video footage of me irrigating my sinus cavity, however—not least because I failed to get any saline solution to put in the thing, and I don’t think I should just dump some table salt into it and hope for the best. So the nasal cleansing will have to wait (and everyone breathes a collective, un-irrigated sigh of relief).

In other news…actually, there is no other news. Receiving a plastic nose bidet in the mail was pretty much the most exciting thing that happened to me today. Still, it could be worse: I could have not received a plastic nose bidet in the mail. Always look on the bright side…