I have been away the last couple of evenings but I did get a little done in between events. A trip to the laundromat, a couple of errands, and this evening I've been organizing my office book shelves.

This set is where my source material is for my thesis in English, for the papers and proposed thesis in philosophy--there is a little overlap, but basically we're talking about two sets of books that take up several shelves each. There was some commingling and some duplication. I'll probably weed out some. I'm also removing the stuff that was stacked horizontally on top of the books. It's nice, how much better it looks when the space over the books isn't crammed full of papers. I've been filing some of those papers, and setting others aside to bundle and file.

On another note, I recently saw a retrospective of the life of Luciano Pavarotti, in which he explained that due to nerves and focus he found that having a handkerchief in his hand was helpful. If you look at later photos you'll see it wasn't even subtle, it was just always there.

SRS