Also for my West Coast friends: let me know when your packages show up. We sent out about six of them, and I'd like to know if you're getting them!
Proust - well, I didn't make any progress on it while I was gone, so I'm just now up to page 145. I did get copies of Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time (by Roger Shattuck) and Alain De Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life while I was gone, too, so I have some hope for better understanding of the book, not that I think I'm struggling in particular but you do know how pizza is better with some parmesan on top ...
Play reading in Streatham tonight (clicky for details), who will I be seeing there?