O, ponderous, plodding day! Sliding between irritable and melancholy has been the order of things; mayhap I will have a mood swing-set installed in the imaginary backyard.

My current reading material is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. It is making me feel much more focused on issues of grammar and usage; at the same time it feeds the flames of my everlasting love for commas and semicolons. This follows the first two novels in Herbert’s Dune series, which I haven’t read for over a decade. There is some juxtaposition between macro-galactic politics and minutiae of grammar.