Today:

- Added a new site counter to find out what this sites doin'.
- Did a forlorn search for J S Mill's writing on proportional voting, to try and lend my frenzied writing on the subject a little context, without much success (what a tedious writer!)
- Reread the Shin/Pureland Buddhism text, the Tannisho, for the fourth time in four days and, yes, finally started to make sense of it in a dramatic kind of way. Spent the afternoon writing about Shin, and in the evening asked online what level of consciousness on the Hawkins scale it rates at.
- I played and played and played with the cat.
- I tried both Zen and Pureland meditation, and found the latter very inspiring.
- Editing my essay 'The moral context of great art', wondering at where I could find a publisher for such an artefact; I do not think I have written a piece so strange, abstract and ornate before that actually have a strong point to it.
- Took washing off the line that since the cat effectively stopped me opening the back door thoughtlessly, has been hanging outside for two days.
- Chatted online about my poor friend Matt, whose mental illness has caused him problems yesterday, today, and now for many weeks to come it seems.
- Reread "Postmodernism For Beginners" and found nothing much new in it, sad to say, except when they quoted Lyotard's work, which is as perspicacious as ever.
- Listening to LOTS of Mozart.
- Worked in the design documents for the two novels I am trying to construct, Return to Gaia, and Murder on Planet Pureland, unto frustration and beyond. It's a good sign of progress, eh.
- The usual "anxiety disorder" list of worrying, bustling, hustling, cussing, bumping into things, mini-resting, self-talking, deep-breathing, evading/avoiding, bleh blah bleh.

That was my day today.