It's 07:30, on a holiday Monday. I'm sitting on my balcony watching the sun recently risen, and pondering the network of roads that my apartment overlooks.

I have polished off the wikipedia article on The Corpus Juris Civilis (again), Nestorianism, and the Sasanian Empire.

My first cup of coffee sits steaming beside me.

I now understand the pattern of roads my balcony overlooks.