– Does it scare me that yesterday morning I spent a solid 20 minutes wandering in circles around the 4th floor of my new office building, walking past the same plants and the same people’s backs six or seven times, the panic slowly rising in my belly, until I finally realised that, in fact, I work on the 3rd floor of the building? Yes, yes it does. For many and many reasons.

These reasons did not, however, prevent me from pushing “4″ in the lift again today.

– Clean, smooth ice is one of the prettiest things in the world, I think. I broke off a small icicle from the bottom of a large truck the other day and fondled it quite lasciviously while walking home.

– Clean, smooth ice under one’s feet is treacherous when a person is as clutzy as I am. So far the score is Ice: 4, Meera: 0.

– For your pleasure, because I am dry of words, and because Ross and I were talking about his childhood obsession with collecting insects, here is a wonderful Japanese postcard for you to look at. (Picture taken this summer, at the MFA)