Let me assure you that I have a damned good explanation for my absence yesterday: work. By 2 PM I couldn’t see straight, and by the time I returned home at 5, I just fell onto my bed—thud! Just like that—and slept until about eight. By then I’d missed a social occasion, but then again my head was about to explode, and so it was best I remain home, ice on my head and aspirin in my veins. Straight back to sleep.