Is it just me, or does Simenon’s, Maigret in New York, seem like a mashup of a regular Maigret with Franz Kafka’s, Amerika?

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row.

“Now, after so much solitude, death doesn’t frighten me, not yours, not mine either. And those words, the last time, has no power over me. I know intense love always leads to mourning.”

• Louise Glück, Metamorphosis

Listening to the “Alles Gesagt?” podcast from Zeit Online with Dr. Friederike Otto and thinking that @Denny would really like it, altough it’s in German.

Bloodwork at 8 am, Covid & Flu shot at 10. Back to work by 10:30

As I read the latest thread on the academic law librarians' listserv on bike/treadmill desks for students, I can’t help but wonder if these are the same folks complaining about the high cost of legal education and massive student debt?

📖 Re-read Jim Harrison’s, The Summer He Didn’t Die.

Currently reading: The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf 📚

“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves