So I forgot to mention my coup of some days ago: a new canvas book-tote back of grayhair spinster UES type with Corbett (the best text on rhetoric there is), some Sapir essays and a Chinese reader. Right now the plan is to chip away at some Gabriel Garcia Marquez and some of the many books (such as Sanguo yanyi, Xiyouji, and other more Classic texts) delivered to me by my moms: something to be said for slow-ploddingness. I just need lots of short term goals, or I'll flounder.