Today I am swaddled in a thick lethargy, which I am combating with caffeine. It’s drizzling outside and I’m getting work done in small bursts. James claims to be suffering something similar. In his own words “I appear to be suffering from the same miasma as you today JT…”

That’s a ten-dollar word eh? It’s also a new one for me; here’s what it means:

mi·as·ma (m – z m , m -)

n. pl. mi·as·mas or mi·as·ma·ta (-m -t )

1. A noxious atmosphere or influence: “The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere… like a coiling miasma” (Louis Auchincloss).

2.

a. A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.

b. A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.