Up early, ran my mile-and-a-half, Morning Office, Mass for St Matthew’s Day, a lightning strike at the grocery, and a day’s struggle for productive labour toward organising my Michaelmas teaching, advancing the cause of my essay on James, and manifest progress on volume 2 of Legends. I made fajitas for dinner, and we started watching series 3 of Baron Noir, which did not help us entertain salubrious thoughts about electoral politics.