Spaghetti squash with sage and parmesan, parsnips with onions, and chickpeas, spinach salad. "Ethical Joyce." Lots of discussions about the ethics of reading in general. Awkward lunches and dinners with eminent visitor and my awkward professors and colleagues. Conferences. Today I gave a presentation about an assignment from 39B, a process I described as "exorcising a demon." Rediscovering just how great Proust is as a book-on-tape, listened while I cooked, very caught up now in Swann, Odette and the rest of them. Kitcat is caught up in the study of the motion of a ball with a bell inside when swatted with paw, though right now he is working on his practicum in lapbound purring.