15th Nov – What do you see when you turn out the light? I can’t tell you, but I know it’s mine.

Not his own work of course – I imagine that he was merely repeating a rebuke he’d received over his own illiterate submissions at work.

4th January – I’m a working man in my prime.

they are considered to be the habits of the unhinged by the rest of the world, yet are not even questioned as the right way to describe things by us.

Instead of responding to the offer I ask what the job will entail and Roger says, ‘promotions.’

He asks about me, and I do that thing where I don’t quite render my recently surrendered position in the past tense.