Two random things
1) Many years ago, Joel the Elder was given homework from his Finnish language class to write about what he could see out his window. He wrote a (really quite beautiful) poem about winter nights blurring the boundary between sky and sea. "Nobody else wrote a poem," he told us yesterday, looking faintly surprised. He's such a wonderful man.
2) Walking Tesla through a field one night last week, she found and tried to befriend a mouse. After a lot of excitement, probably involving her picking up the mouse in her mouth and feeling it move, the mouse decided it had had enough, and began meeping in the most strident and irritated tone I have ever heard coming out of any rodent. "Would! You! Ever! Fuck! Off!" it shouted.
2) Walking Tesla through a field one night last week, she found and tried to befriend a mouse. After a lot of excitement, probably involving her picking up the mouse in her mouth and feeling it move, the mouse decided it had had enough, and began meeping in the most strident and irritated tone I have ever heard coming out of any rodent. "Would! You! Ever! Fuck! Off!" it shouted.