between the rock and the cold, cold sea

1. Criminal Minds DVDs! Again! Still! Forever!

...Ahem. Moving on.

2. Stew. How a plate of potatoes and beef and carrots can be so satisfying and tasty and comforting all at once, I don't know. But it does.

3. Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy. Lucid academic discussion! Clear and readable prose! Footnotes!

4. Bank Holidays. A wonder of the modern world.

5. Did I mention the Criminal Minds DVDs?

And I have a small amount of Green and Blacks' dark chocolate, and I don't have to get up till a civilised hour tomorrow, and the clocks go back tonight. Midnight happens twice, and I get an extra hour's sleep.

Good days.

1. Lemon cheesecake.

2. Criminal Minds DVDs. (Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! Ahem.)

3. A working mic. (Finally, after long months of bemusement, I figured out what turns the mic attachment on. This makes me feel a certain kind of stupidly clever.) Not that I have a use for one, presently, but it's the kind of thing it's nice to know you have.

4. The first line of a short story. I think it springboarded off a couple of poems I wrote, oh, long time ago. And has at last had enough fermenting time to send up some froth.

5. Music by Matthew Good.

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Today was a Day Off. God, I love catching up my sleep. (It makes me feel like a human being again, not a shuffling whingeing zombie.) And my dusting. And making enough space on my bookshelves to cram more books in. And exercise.

And pavement slick with fallen leaves and the aftermath of rain, and the smell of damp salt air and woodsmoke.

Today was a good day.

How about yours?