10/29: a good day

I've been having some off days with low spirits and trouble focusing, but today turned out okay.  I read a novel while eating breakfast.  I went for a late-morning walk in the rain and took some pictures of leaves.  After lunch I wrote Trollope commentary then read some of Marjorie Perloff's Unoriginal Genius.  For dinner I tinkered with a sauce I made yesterday for vegetarian Mongolian "beef," and the results were good.  After dinner I wrote more commentary and read more Unoriginal Genius.  Chris showed me the bats living in our bat-box, and all three boy cats played with me and the string toy.