A while ago, Blogger offered free sweatshirts to BloggerPro users (which is what I was before switching to MT and which I guess I still am in their records). I ordered a Large, since I like my sweatshirts baggy. I washed it. I should have gotten an X-Large.
Everything seems to be shrinking — the clothes I buy, the distances over which I reach out, the time and energy that I have to take care of the things I have to take care of, the spaces in my spinal discs through which the nerves wind their (not so merry these days) ways. I