On a slightly lighter note: this past weekend, I spent about an hour going through my overflowing bookshelves, weeding out those books I knew I’d not read again but might be able to put to good use at the New York Public Library. In the process, I not only pulled nearly fifty donatable tomes, but also some twenty-six other books I had either not finished or never even started, but would still really love to read.

Resultingly, I’ve consolidated those twenty-six onto a single shelf, and have effected a new-book purchase moratorium until I plow through those plucked lost gems. Based on the way I scarf down books, I don’t expect that to take more than a couple of weeks.