The end of a restful summer. Various orientation days at ...

The end of a restful summer. Various orientation days at the college this week - classes start a week from today. The January novel (due Oct. 1) is down to trimming and snipping - there's a word-count limit - but other writing projects are a bit lagged. I finished four paintings and even did a little weeding of the books - volumes purchased for research on past projects, in areas I'm pretty sure I'm never going to re-visit. Re-homing the laser-discs; letting go of things kept for sentimental reasons, now that the ashes have cooled.

Have been re-reading Luc Sante's amazing book "Low Life" - a history of crime and vice in nineteenth-century New York - and am delighted to hear that he's coming out with a similar volume about Paris... which is one of the cities I study.

New projects when I've sorted myself out a little.