Unfortunate Episode

Yesterday spend all of morning and most of afternoon smelling a bad, musty smell. First think that am smelling the bathroom and spend fifteen minutes of horrified, Comet-dusted frenzy of cleaning. This does not solve problem. Next pin crime on shirt. Put forth to Dave argument that shirt, which just came back from the dry cleaners, is ruined. Clearly dry cleaning doesn't work. Etc. Urge him smell shirt. He does, and pronouces it clean. In office, smell overpowering. Hair not long enough to reach and have extremely bad moment when feel that hair has turned. Can get nose right next to carpet, which is nasty and old, but not, surprisingly, I can report, smelly. Mystery is solved when return from dentist's office. Bottoms of pants are soaked through from rain and puddles and smell worse than before. Lean down and sniff. Nearly pass out. Do not wish to give the impression that day is otherwise uneventful. To the contrary day very very busy with back-to-school activity. Libby tells me that in France, this time if year is called La Reentre which sounds much more dashing than the trudgy back-to-school.