things I am pleased with

- I finished the increasingly-possibly-misnamed "Writ on Water", my assessed essay for Poetry of Loss. It needs a polish (possibly the restructuring kind of polish), but it's not much over the word limit. And it features an admission that I'm performing "my own agonistic misprision" of Harold Bloom.

- On Tuesday morning I'm heading back to Norway. Which is good in any number of ways, including this one:



(yes, it is Teo, as photographed by my father, I think.)

- It is one of my favourite things when people unexpectedly turn out to know all the lyrics (I don't normally even link to youtube videos, but come on).

- I got home from dinner at the Charles and a wander around the creepy topiary in the Quiet Place to find an email from my Ph.D supervisor quite spontaneously describing my proposal (which is the one I'm going to use for my funding applications) as "really strong". I know supervisors are generally expected to be in your corner, but it was still exciting.

Will now stop being fluffy and Pollyannaish and get some sleep.