caught a real nasty bug. took yesterday and today off from work. so it is me and nicholas, who also is on the tail-end of this crappy cold, hacking away like 40plus year smokers and sneezing like we invented the sneeze. actually it is mostly me, as nicholas is feeling pretty good, i think.

other than suffering not-so-silently been digging the vispo at daniel f. bradley's blog.

and geof huth's fantastic translation of a famous basho haiku.

and and a series of poems by derek beaulieu published here.

now to get back to some serious napping.