This morning I was trying to figure out why I've been having such odd dreams of late. It might have something to do with the variety of things I'm currently reading: just finished Adam Stemple's Singer of Souls, working my way through Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine, by Nancy Siraisi, reading Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic with YG, listening to The Golden Compass in the car on the way to and from Sebastopol this weekend, I've just started paging through Hildegard of Bingen's Physica (if you think I'm doing research, you're right), and I started reading The Witch in the Well by Sharan Newman. So I've got an interesting mix of steam-punk England, medieval France and Italy, and WW II Poland mixing in with central Massachusetts elfland. Bizarre dreams.