Tuesday

I have always been fascinated by space. There is a newer trailer about this film with the title "In Saturn's Rings" on Vimeo that I cannot download. This version gives a hint of what is to come.

1. Today I was so overwhelmed with responsibilities I could not stay focused on any single one of them. I felt like I was walking on the moon it took so much force to stick to the jobs at hand: marking many student assignments and re-working my lesson plan for tomorrow; organizing several meetings and enlisting more participants for my fundraising forPAL Vancouver; doing the bi-monthly aquarium tuneup with Costin; seeing the surgeon about the operation I am supposed to have; getting X-rays; visiting Chris in the hospital.
2. I could barely stand the wait for Costin to get here because I thought my fish would be going into my new huge tank, but no! It will be another two weeks before the aquarium has gone through the ammonia/nitrite/nitrate cycle. Damnation, this wait is testing my maturity.
3. I went to Dr. Mann, the Ear, Nose & Throat specialist my asthma doctor sent me to. That led to a CT scan and then I heard nothing. When I next saw my asthma doc, he asked me; "How was the surgery?" I had no idea what he was talking about. He called Dr. Mann. Dr. Mann called me and told me to come in to arrange for surgery for sub-cranial polyps. Today I went in and he tells me my polyps (plural) are actually a cyst and, therefore, assuredly benign. I bail on the surgery.
4. My physio guy says he can do no more. He says it is likely arthritis in my hips and to see my doctor. I see my doctor. He says it is likely arthritis in my hips and to get some x-rays. I go to the x-ray department and have to wait. While I wait I decide that I do not want to know right now if it is arthritis because if it is, it can't be fixed. Ergo: no hope. So I bailed on the x-rays too.
5. My play is not going to happen at a theatre next year. Pacific Theatre may offer me a development deal wherein they dramaturge the script with me. I would like that and I love that the pressure is off and I am closer again to being a retired (un-busy) person.