TV has its uses

I think I will be watching more TV today than I usually do in a month. I just watched Barack Obama being his usual calm, rational and thoughtful self on Meet the Press, Eve's Bayou is on this afternoon, and Bleak House begins this evening on Masterpiece Theatre.

It's also a 19th-century English lit day: in addition to watching Bleak House, I'm curling up with Vanity Fair (which I am loving).

Important birthdays next week: Virginia Woolf on the 25th and Mozart on the 27th (his 250th - the big birthday bash has begun!).