The way I'm dealing with this I-don't-exist time between novels is to bull my way through that stuff I was talking about, stuff I've been wanting to do for a long time. Apartment repairs, museum shows (which don't actually take much bulling), and so on. You'll get reports. Some of this stuff is miscellaneous, and you'll get reports on that too, starting right now with this incredibly useful website. It comes courtesy of my NYS Assembly Representative, Deborah Glick, who is very cool. It's Catalog Choice. You go register, and then click on the catalogs you get in the mail that you DON'T want, and they cancel them for you. How's that for useful?