We have been having a terrific thunderstorm for the past hour. Very loud. Cats have scattered.

However, because it has been overcast since I got up at seven, it feels like it’s still seven. Possibly also because I started working at eight, and have managed to carry six or seven shelves’ worth of my office books downstairs into the communal office space. I have room on my office shelves for new books now. Or rather, to place the books that were double-shelved or piled on the floor. There’s a bit more order in my chaos. I am pleased. Maybe this afternoon I’ll thin out some of my books in the living room to carry downstairs too, such as the philosophy and critical analysis ones, to occupy the downstairs shelves as well and free up room for the triple-shelved books and new acquisitions that have been shoved here and there over the past year.

I got my contracts with the Big Local Company in the mail today; I’m told my cheque was cut yesterday and will be here early next week. About time.