Either plenty is going on or nothing at all. It's hard to decide which. Won't talk about work here -- it's full of shits and bits and very little new is happening. Picked up a lovely book to complement the 'ancient' theme at the moment. It's the 'New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology'. Not new in actual fact -- an 80s reprint of a late 50s original. Not that I care. Something to dip into over the long winter months. Was also reading a travelogue by Basho (godfather of haikus) last night. Wonderfully tender in parts, hugely perceptive, and unsettling now and again as the assumptions of another time and place came to the fore. Must pick up a simple collection of his poems. Time to clock off now...the laptop is about to die on me.