YAY HAPPY HAPPY!

I spent today finishing and connecting the second song of the autumn cycle. I was almost ready to send it to the singer this afternoon, but I waited and printed it out at the university. Good thing, I managed to show it to a percussionist and got the blessing. Then I noticed that I had forgotten about dynamics - so I did that this evening! I treat dynamics as formal structure, so I use them to reinforce the structure, which is best done once everything else has been completed.
It took a fair bit of time, but tonight I integrated the addition of dynamics and the final edit!

I have now finished my commission! I had a great talk with the singer tonight and I explained everything to her and now it's basically in her hands! I'm certainly willing to make edits if needed, and answer any questions, but I've fulfilled my side of the project!

I feel really good - not just to be finished this project, but it really came together and over the last few days.
The celebration has to be short lived, in fact, it is now over. I will end this post and get back to work on my Piano Trio.
I hope that this week will be just as productive and rewarding as things have been wrapping up the song cycle!

Life is busy and intense!

2 more days to finish my song cycle. I will get it done on time. I have the two poems entered into the computer and they are put together, right now I am fixing them so that a)they make sense with each other and 2) they flow seamlessly from one into the other. I was at a block where they were both almost finished, but I couldn't quite seal the deal - now that they are together, the problems that they each faced are finding solutions in their new surroundings. The process is quite exciting, but I wish I had reached this place a little earlier.
In conclusion, I'm excited for Friday when I will send this piece to the singer and percussionist and be done with it, barring any problems.

One week and 2 days until I need to have my Piano Trio finished. I will get it done on time. I was feeling very frustrated about the process as I felt I had no idea of the direction in which to head. I thought I was going to need my prof to help me decide on what material to use and tell me what to do. Apparently I had almost everything in place. He helped me to see the architecture which I had already sculpted, without being blatantly aware of it. He only made one truly creative suggestion which I will take and then, in the interest of time running short, he recommended the order in which I should work on the tasks which remain. In other words, this weekend, I will be working a)to the deadline and 2)to my own personal limits and beyond.
Deadlines are such a different thing between piano and composition. I like it better in comp, because the deadline is hard and tangible, whereas, with learning music for a performance, the work has to be done more beforehand.

The rumour has not been hardcore verified, but the word on the street is that Ontario is covering pumps up to the age of 25. Therefore, I should be able to get a pump covered! That's the big thing, the thousands of dollars that they cost. The monthly costs of insulin and the needles for that will be covered by university insurance, and I know that they are covered in Manitoba so if the rumour proves true, I feel confident in that decision!
Nevertheless, I won't get excited yet. I need to get through the next week and a half!

I voiced some of my concerns in an email to a friend in the diabetes field here in Ontario and I received a response that said she wanted to talk to me, and that she might have some good news for me. Sometime after the weekend we will talk and, well I will shush up until then at least.

I realized today when I went to chop up my onion, that I had no onion. The grocery service forgot my onion. Brilliant on their part, but I'm not sure if I'll give them the satisfaction. I sent an email and they credited me with the cost of the onion. Somehow, their mistake costs me about a buck, but it almost guarantees them a repeat customer. I don't think it's worth it, I'll be going to the actual grocery store on my own.
My roommate seems really happy with the service. I guess there are lots of pros, but theres something too sterile about the process. If I continue to use it, I might find other ways to become a complete hermit, and while I don't mind hermiting over the weekends, I think it could damage me if it were a more permanent thing.

I've ignored commentary on my piano trio for a while - partially because no work was getting done, and partially because I wasn't sure what I would even say.
I had thought I was very close to a finished product before the break, but I was redirected to write a completely new piano trio. I brought the new version to my last lesson - now it is time to pick parts of both and mix them together. I knew I was going to be doing this in the end, but it hasn't made the process any easier.
And by 'easier' I don't mean in terms of general difficulty, I mean emotionally. Not that this is a huge thing, but I think we (or just me) get attached to the things we create-in the state that we created them. It's one thing to edit a piece and make changes here and there, even big changes are fine, but this is taking the elements of the original and tearing them apart. We lose that emotional attachment, not that we have to the music, but that the music has to it's own surroundings. If I think of my musical construction as a representation of how I relate to the world around me, as I sometimes do, then I am basically uprooting myself.
Anyway, I'm not so haughty to claim that the first version was the best and I'm going to ruin what I had; and I'm actually quite excited to go through this process, but it seems to have more weight than I would have imagined.
Once I finish inputting the newer version into the computer, I will print it out and then literally sit with the papers and cut them up into chunks and bits and then paste them together into something new and exciting!

Zippidy-doo, time just flies by at lightening speed these days.

I don't like Ontario's health coverage. Manitoba is great in comparison.

Let's take a look at the basic concepts of diabetes that have been around for a long long time. Diabetics need insulin and a method of getting that insulin into their body. In order to lessen the randomness of diabetes management, diabetics monitor their blood sugar levels.

For my entire life as a diabetic, these facts have been a given and the government of Manitoba has provided me with basic access to Insulin, Needles, and Testing Supplies. I understand that the higher end versions of any of these key elements or beyond are not base-definition:Necessary and I accept that there has to be a minimum standard of care taken as a baseline.

I had been excited about Ontario's health coverage because I know they subsidize, if not completely cover, the cost of insulin pumps for children under 18 - a forward pushing initiative which is far beyond the baseline standards of even Manitoba.
This is why I was surprised and not pleased to find out that needles are not included in Ontario's basic coverage. The pharmacist told me that according to the government, needles are not considered a 'drug'. Upon asking for the distinction of a drug and a non-drug, I was told that drugs are those things that are deemed necessary
That is RIDICULOUS!
Without needles, I die. There is no other way of getting the insulin into my body. Even if I could lather and douse myself with insulin to try to absorb it through osmosis, how would I even get the drug out of the bottle?!? Not without a needle, I couldn't!

Before the break, I actually went to the office to get my Ontario health card, but I didn't have a passport so I planned on doing it later. I'm glad I did - now I will do some more research and most likely conclude the the added paperwork will be worth it if I remain a Manitoba resident for Health Care.

It's been a busy week. This whole week, I have had classes or a meeting or something every morning- what a contrast to last term.
Orchestration is now out of the way, at least the first term project. The reading went fine and I learnt a fair deal from it. The conductor was good enough to make a bunch of markings in my score of some general things. Overall, the prof seemed quite pleased with the way our projects turned out.
This term, I have an academic course which involves prep time between classes as it is a seminar. Also, the weekly workload for Electro has increased as we learn a new program and need to do a bunch of tutorials for that program each week. In other words, NOW I am experiencing grad school.

Current Projects:
The Autumn Song Cycle is over 50% finished and submitted. I sent the first song to the singer last night and went over all the details so she can get started on learning it. I have pretty much exactly a week to get the other song (2 poems combined) finished.

The Piano Trio is coming along. I had a lesson the other day and I actually had stuff written and he looked the whole thing over. It was pretty much just a detailed sketch, but he felt it was much closer to completion than I thought. My task for this week is to pick and choose the elements from the two versions that I want to combine. My plan of attack is to do this with scissors! I need to input the second version into the computer first, then I'll print it out and then cut it up and decide which segments are worth using.

Tomorrow, I have a meeting with the other of the two available prospective thesis advisers. I haven't met him yet because he has been on sabbatical, so I have no idea how things will go. Nevertheless, I will stay optimistic until the end!

My roommate discovered one of these grocery delivery services. I looked it up and the delivery charge was only 6bucks and the prices seemed reasonable, so I'm giving it a try. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's easier for me to be organized. I always forget something and the list is never complete, but at least here, I do the shopping in my house so I just run back and forth between the kitchen and the computer and I feel very organized. At the same time, I'm not going to be getting my PC points for groceries if I do this. Anyway, the groceries will come tomorrow evening and I'll see how satisfied with it. Then I'll see if I want to do it again then next time I need groceries.
Ok, bitch time - The damned Liquor Mart (LCBO) that I went to yesterday was only open til 6pm and I was there at 6:30. What the heck?!? I want to buy vodka and Kahlua so I can make paralysers- I need milk anyway, so I have to wait for tomorrow evening anyway, but still!

Inspection notice

I got a notice in my mailbox today letting me know that the cable is live in our apartment so we should call and pay them in order to avoid disconnection and reconnection fee.
Pish Posh!
If they disconnect it, then I'm sure we'll miss it, but we can watch most things online anyway and I'll be honest, I'll probably be more productive if there's no television here.

Update, I plugged the phone into the wall to see if there was still a dial tone... there sure is!

To clarify, if my roommate and I had been cheap and not paid for anything besides rent and hydro, we would had nearly half a year of free cable, borrowed wireless Internet from our neighbours who don't secure their networks, and a telephone line with a bill that goes to who-knows-where.

Now we just play the waiting game and watch our television until they disconnect us.

New Topic!
Last night, I dreamt of the piece I am writing for piano trio. Literally, I dreamt of the score, but nothing tangible. I don't 'hear' music unless I consciously hum it inside my head so it wasn't like I heard the final piece and I'm now madly writing it down; I can't even very well describe the experience as I had it. I just experienced the score from various perspectives.
I woke up and started writing. The dream didn't tell me new material to write, rather it allowed me to look at the material I had already written and continue along that path without all the painstaking thinking I was doing late last night. Perhaps the dream was a continuation of that line of thinking I was attempting last night.
My prof told me that he describes his way of composing as looking at an image through frosted glass; it thaws out slowly and you start to see more of the picture the longer you work on it.
My experience is similar, maybe I'll describe it as working on a jigsaw puzzle through frosted glass - I have a concept of the piece as a whole, but I can't put it into words or notes. I make conscious choices as I go along. With each decision I see, I see a little more of how it fits into the whole and that helps me to make further decisions.
Accordingly, last night, my puzzle thawed itself out quite a bit and I can now work more efficiently with the decisions I have made, which in turn will make the coming decisions make more sense.

Electro prof gave a quick look over our scores that we submitted today in class and he seemed quite pleased.
He was the same prof that I talked to yesterday about my thesis project; he is a potential adviser. We talked about some of the perceived concerns that I've had and he seems to think that there is nothing really that would stand in my way of doing the dance collaboration project. I have a meeting set up with the other potential adviser for next week and hopefully that will go just as well. It was really good to talk about some of the expectations of the thesis project and the process.

I'll be honest; I did not end up making the best use of my extra time that I had by finishing those projects somewhat early. I've had some creative spurts, but nothing too extravagant- I guess I'm at square one for the weekend. I hung out with some of the other composers today and it seems that everyone is in the same scenario. Orchestral readings are coming up, both for our class and the thesis pieces as well as any variety of other projects that people have on the go. It was really nice to sit and talk with my colleagues in the midst of the business; I got the impression that we were all happy to revel in the conglomerate stress of this time of year. The general plan for the weekend was to be hermits and only emerge victoriously on Monday morning.

And now, it's time to be a hermit.

Okedoke,
I took my orchestration scores to school today with plans of getting them bound and handing them in. I decided that I should wait and bind my Electro score at the same time. I came home to print it out in the early afternoon. It took me more time than I expected to tidy up the score, due to Photoshop battles, but I got it done. Then I convinced myself that I should do my parts photocopying while waiting for the binding.... that seriously took me HOURS to tidy up all the parts and print them out so I could take them to photocopy them onto big paper.
Long story short, it was after 8 before I got home. I had my first Kinko's experience and generally it went pretty well. The binding is KILLING me, so damned expensive.. to think that I was able to do it myself, and for free at the ballet....

ANYWAY, moral of this story is that I am finished with Electro and Orchestration, for now. I might be completely finished with Orchestration; we are meeting on Tuesday (a day before the reading) to edit and search for mistakes. If we find them, I'll have to reprint and whatnot to the effected parts.

For now, I'll assume that everything is perfect with everything, thus freeing myself up to working on my compositions!
My meeting with the singer was great. She helped me clear up one wishy-washy notation thing and gave me very good feedback, I was also able to show the piece to a percussionist. She pointed out that one thing was just impossible - I had misjudged the size and span of the Marimba.... it's freaking HUGE! Nevertheless, there is a simple suggestion - the singer will play the wind chimes in one tricky little area!
I'm going to ignore that piece for a few days because it's pretty much done - I'll come back in a few days and make edits and then send it off to the performers so they can get started on it.

I feel very good about my productivity lately! It's Wednesday evening and I'm all ready to start on the weekend I thought I would only be able to get to on Friday.

So, that weekend just flew by in the blink of an eye...
Here's the update on assignments for this week:

Orchestration is pretty much done, save the act of printing and organizing parts. Conclusion - I'm glad this isn't 30 years ago or whenever things all had to be done by hand, I wouldn't have the patience for it. I barely have the patience for it now... For Thurs/Friday, I need to have the score to the conductor - so all I need to do is buy 8.5*11 paper and then print it out and get it bound - that much I can handle. The rest of the printing and part prep work will take place over the weekend and into next week, I have a week tomorrow to get that all done. I think I can say that I have everything under control for that.

Electro - I need to finish up my score and get it printed/bound for Friday, I'll do that together with the Orchestration Score. I also need to do some reading for Max MSP and do some tutorials as part of my weekly course work - I'll try to do that tomorrow.

With those two major things out of the way, the weekend will still be just as busy, but even more focused on what remains:

Piano Trio - I really haven't written anything since before the break. I feel awful about it, so now is the time to make it up. My creative slump is now over, so it's time I apply that to this piece. My longstanding task was to write something completely new for trio - I have lots of ideas and pitch/melodic material that I've generated this past week, now I need to turn it into something. I'm thinking it is going to be contrapuntal in nature, which will most likely expose my weaknesses, haha! I've been trying to do little bits of work on it along with everything else, but I totally prioritize based on what is most urgent time-wise, so the trio is suffering. Nevertheless, over the weekend, it will rise sharply in the priority ranking.
[Now that I think of it, I should get the orchestral parts out of the way before the weekend so I can be focused.]

Autumn Song Cycle. The last poem is in a state of finality. I finished composing the vocal line to the percussion parts, which have been finished for a while now, and while changes are bound to take place, it is close enough to being finished that I can justify setting it aside while I work on the other 2 poems. One of the two remaining poems has the vocal line completely composed, waiting for the glockenspiel accompaniment to be finished, while the last poem needs a healthy dose of EVERYTHING! I am meeting with a singer friend with a very similar voice type to the singer friend for whom the pieces are being written tomorrow to go over some things. I know that everything is possible and singable; tomorrow will tell me if anything is awkward/unidiomatic. Moreso, it will give me something tangible to hear - and even try some things with. I can test out some accompaniment things for the poem which needs the glockenspiel accompaniment.

Over the break, I did a lot of fence sitting in regards to thoughts about my thesis - I got an email from the choreographer which helped put me in a more go-get'em mood about the whole thing. I will be seeing her tomorrow; I think she is having a rehearsal with the dancers who would be in my piece and I'm going to go watch / maybe play some piano for/with them. Also, I have a meeting with a potential thesis adviser later this week. Some of my worries were brought up by the department head, but I need to talk to profs in my area in order to either dispel or affirm those worries.

That is a brief glimpse into what I have going on for me these days. I'm very excited for Feb 8'th after my Trio is submitted, then all of these things (except the last paragraph) will be done and finished. Heck, even after Jan 22'nd, 2 of the things will be gone!

Talk about irony!

This afternoon, there was a major power outage at the university, the power was out for well over an hour and a half.
How do I know this? Because I was in class while it happened - all of a sudden, the lights went out and the speakers crackled as their life source was harshly wrought from them. After waiting a few minutes, we decided it was a lost cause and we huddled around my prof's laptop for the remains of the lecture (one of the benefits of small class size).
After the class, thinking of all the academic classes that were probably let go after a short waiting period, I thought it delightfully ironic that my class continued. If there was one class you would expect to be cancelled in the case of a power outage, it would be mine:
ELECTROacoustic music.
But no, we continued and learnt!
We learnt that even a Mac with only 40% power can last longer than my laptop when it has 100% of it's supposed battery-life.

Is the internet slowing down/thinning out, or is it just me?

I used to be able to procrastinate for hours with blogs and facebook, but it seems that when I am in need of some distraction, those sources are empty. It was once the case that I would have needed to visit facebook every quarter hour to keep on top of all the 'news'; now, half a day can go by and there still won't be anything new to update me on.
There are two possibilities: 1) that I have become hyper-efficient at checking everything so that it just seems like things are thinning out. or 2)People are actually being less active on the internet.
I think it is both. I am terribly efficient. I have my homepage set to Bloglines - a blog feed organizer that tells me when people have or haven't updated their blogs - this way I only have to load the pages of those who have updated. Before this, I regularly visited about 13 blogs a day. That still didn't take much time, as I would recognize that there was no change.
It could be that there is a lull in people's activity online - I have noticed that I'm getting fewer and fewer emails, more junk mail, but less actual email.
Most importantly, people have almost completely stopped commenting, except for my absolute favourite reader who comments SO regularly, she is also one of the few consistently updated blogs which I frequent - Thanks Mai!!!

Ok, now some posting with substance. Over the last few days, there's been a change. I've had some kind of writer's block for over a month, I think it was building over all of last term. Anyway, last night and today, I've been writing lots. It's not excessively nor simply pouring out of me, but it has a flow that I've been missing. I'm glad to have it back. I'm also interested to see if things have changed in other areas: For quite a while, improvising has been bland, if existent at all; also, I have not been emotionally moved by music in quite a while. Long story short, with all the symptoms I've listed in some form or another, I think I'm coming out of some sort of mild depression. I don't want to jinx this refound creative outburst, so I'll just say that I feel that things are on an upswing right now!
And what perfect timing...

Moderate Sadness

I got an email tonight saying that my SSHRC application was not sent on to the national level. Apparently the whole university can only send 53 (+5 alternatives) applications forward to the national level, so I'm not surprised that out of the thousands of Grad Students here, I am not one of those. Especially looking at those numbers, I'm really not surprised, but I'm still disappointed. That extra 5 grand would have been really nice...
Currently, I'm still in the running for the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, which would also be an improvement on funding for next year, though not quite as prestigious or lucrative. No matter what, I will still get the same funding from Western next year as I did for this year, I'm just hoping to get a little more.

Today I was officially back to classes. Teaching went well, I had a good first class back - not only was I on time, but I had time to do all my prepwork (photocopying) for the term. I hate photocopiers and I can't really use them!! My students only mildly mocked me for the packets whose pages faced different directions and had a blank cover page.... but I wasn't going to spend 10 minutes putting each packet back in proper order -they had all (most) of the information in them!

Orchestration was interesting and useful today, although we didn't look at either of our work that we've done over the break... We talked quite a bit about the practical side of score preparation - who needs which markings, what information is necessary, even what type/size of paper we should print on. It was incredibly useful information that we will put into good use. We've decided that we'll treat the performance as a presentation after which we will have a seminar/defence of our work. This means we will get to criticize each other, it will be fun!

Well, it's getting to be Sunday evening. I start back to school tomorrow. I teach bright and early at 9:30 am. I don't have a class list, so I don't know who I will be teaching. I'm also not completely sure of which room I am teaching in.. I was hoping to have that information on my class sheet, but I suppose they don't want me to know that either! I believe there are only 2 possibilities, but I should be able to find out in the morning anyway. I also need to make photocopies of the course outline for the students. Long story short, I have an early morning tomorrow and it will not be pretty. I only woke up before 10/11am twice over the break - once for a meeting with my filmmaker and once for the flight home, ok, also for the drives to and from Thompson, but the point still stands that I mostly slept late!

Now, as the break comes to its close tonight, I should tally things up with my productivity. Numbers-wise, things haven't changed much since the other night. I input my autumn song into the computer, which will save me a lot of time later, so that is good, but I ended up spending my time doing that instead of adding to my creative output.
As I type, I am taking a break from the addition of the text to the autumn song. The process is going well and I expect to be at least close to finished by the end of the evening, if not altogether finished. If I have time, I would like to do some work on my Piano Trio, but I need to make sure it is an early night. I will have all tomorrow afternoon and then more time Tuesday morning to get more work in.

Ok, back at it.

Quick status update

As you may remember, over the break I had 4 tasks/projects to do.

After leaving Winnipeg, the dance film commission was done - 25% complete.

As of a few minutes ago, I have finished what I needed to do for my orchestration assignment. I tidied up a whole lot of details and reevaluated many of the decisions I had previously made. Surprisingly, the time I took away from this assignment seems to have done me well. I was able to look at my work with a fresh perspective. I feel that I have not only retained what I learnt in the first term, but it seems to make more sense to me now than it did in early December.
That brings us to a 50% completion rate.

Last night I finished the instrumental / percussion score for one of the autumn songs. My task for tonight is to write the vocal line in conjunction with it. If I am successful, I will be working toward an approximate 60% completion rate.

Then comes the Piano Trio... Both of the commissions I was working on over the break really worked with the layering concept that my prof was talking about before the break. I don't think that I understood that before, but now I think I might. I know that my writers' block was not because I subconsciously didn't want to continue with that material - the block was effecting other areas of creativity... the reason why I didn't get anything done in the first bit of the break. I'll attribute it to the stress of the end of term.
Anyway, I want to continue with the concept of layering that I explored over the break, and I think that I'll be able to successfully use it in my piano trio piece. That will take place on Sunday and Monday.

Ok, no more blogging today... except to give a progress report on my completion rate later tonight...
On to productivity!

My jaw has been getting more and more tense over the past month. It could be one of two things:
A) I'm generally stressed
B) My final adult tooth is not happy where it is
In case I've never mentioned before, B) refers to the fact that on my upper right side of my mouth, one of my molars was a baby tooth until I was 18 years old. At that point, my dentist just ripped it out and told me that it would just come in on its own. He was partially right...
Over the past 6 years, that adult tooth has been moving its was into what I assume will eventually be it's proper resting place. At one point, I went to an orthodontist who told me that the tooth would never move unless I paid thousands of dollars to have my mouth reshaped and the tooth pulled down. While he too was incorrect, years later, if I could have afforded that then, I'd be much happier now.
I'm thinking the tension is due to B.
More recently I've also noticed that I'm having sensitivity in that area, so there is a possibility that either pressure is building on that tooth or one around it, or that tooth is suffering some decay. The tooth has been partially exposed now for at least 4 years and quite honestly, I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least some decay...
In conclusion, I need to get to a dentist... but it's going to be costly. Hopefully it will just show up as a cavity or something that can be easily rectified and then I can just continue letting the tooth shift around. If it turns out to be something more major, I'm very close to the point of just getting it yanked, but then what would I have to do to replace it - a spacer? braces?
Should I go to the University Dental School or to a regular dentist? My coverage through univ. dental plan is 70% of everything, up to $500.
Long story short, I hate teeth.

It's nearly midnight. Considering I will have to wake up for 5:30am tomorrow on account of my ridiculously early flight, I should get to bed soon, but instead I am packing.
So much stuff to pack. I stuffed my bag as full of clothes as I could when I left London, and now I am also taking back Christmas presents. To fit everything, I am taking an extra suitcase with me, but I am down one carry-on because I am taking my violin back with me to London. If my roommate didn't already have reason to hate me, he will now - haha!
Anyway, I don't mind stuffing and cramming my belongings into a suitcase as tight as possible - I love the efficiency of it.
I just wandered away and finished packing - it all fit without much fuss at all. I still have to put in my toiletries tomorrow morning, but that shouldn't be a problem. However, early in the morning, anything can be a problem!
I think I'm about ready for bed.
In conclusion, I had a great Christmas and a wonderful time in Winnipeg. It was great to spend time with so many friends. Now it's back to work. I need to get a LOT of work done before Monday, so wish me well!

Tonight, friends from high school and I finally had our Festivus dinner. It's been years in the making, but finally it happened!
There was a nice spread of food which we ate more as appetizers, never actually sitting and eating at the table.
There was no Festivus pole, and the house was incredibly decorated for Christmas, but we ignored those oversights in the true spirit of the season.
The airing of grievances was superb. We were toying with the idea of not doing it at all because... well, it could easily end badly. In the end, we did it and I'm glad we did. No one went overboard and even the serious ones were stated in an entertaining/lighthearted way. We decided that a true airing of the grievances would be ideal for a family setting, where they are forced by law to love you, regardless of what you say!
The Feats of Strength was not quite as it was described in Seinfeld. Kyle and Vince were the ones to battle, so about half of us went outside to watch - In the end, everyone who was outside ended up being tackled and in the snow!
All in all, Festivus was a resounding success.

Happy New Year!

Well, it's a new year today.
I drank last night.
It's been quite a while since I had been that inebriated. I always find it surprising that I never forget my nighttime insulin, no matter how much I drink. Knowing how nasty it would be to have no insulin in your system as well as lots of alcohol, I'm glad that I don't forget.
Still, last night was a little bit hazy and when I awoke this morning, I wasn't quite sure if I had or not, so I went to my bag to look; it wasn't there. Long story short, I left my bag at the party. Without my bag, I wouldn't be able to look at the amount of insulin left to see if I had taken the shot the night before. After a few hours, I could tell by the way my sugars reacted to my short-acting insulin that I had indeed taken my dose. Furthermore, I discovered that my insulin was in my jacket pocket - and it proved my case.
The other point of confusion this morning was my glasses... where were they? Upstairs. When I was living here, I always left them in the same place, on the little table upstairs, but since I've been back, I've always taken them downstairs with me. It's a small detail, I know, but it's closer to what I do in London, representing the fact that this is no longer my home -this is a good thing. It's not that I feel out-of-place here, it's just that things are different.
Anyhoozle, I'm only in Winnipeg for today and tomorrow, then I fly back on Thursday morning. The amount of visiting and socializing I've done has been amazing, but still I wasn't able to see everyone.
I did a big chunk of work on one of the Autumn songs yesterday and I'll do more this afternoon, things are looking promising!