My hair is damaged and staticy and pissing me off so bad. I need a hair cut and I just can’t seem to find the time.

Today we did the setup for the big christmas show this weekend. It was kind of a nightmare out there, just everyone bustling around and really stressed and you could just feel the energy. They made the rows about 2 feet too narrow, so although we were told we could have a 7′ square space, that meant we were encroaching on our neighbors by about… well 2 feet I guess. So they got 5 and we got 7. We got there first though, and our structure is the size that it is, it was designed for a 7′ space. We didn’t have power yet and I still have to print some signs out before I go to bed. I don’t have price stickers on everything yet. This is how these things always go though. It’s not like our usual weekly moss st market where it’s all laid back, this is a more serious show. It should be good though! I am looking forward to it, just felt a bit of the stress tonight. It didn’t help that I had to leave before I wanted to. I kept looking at the clock and saying “I’m going to take off” then fiddling with stuff more.

I finally had to tear myself away with stuff undone, and I was about 10 min late for work due to crappy traffic coming back into town (not that it really matters with my job, but I’m a very punctual person and being late bugs me). And there were a load of messages on the phone I had to deal with, and I hadn’t eaten, although I did have food with me I didn’t get a chance to eat it until later on. So it was just kind of a hectic feeling afternoon/evening.

And, I have to get up pretty early tomorrow. So I am going to go get my printouts done and get to bed.

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Today I woke up, put my hair in pigtails to disguise (however feebly) the fact that it was unwashed, I put on my finest old sweats and went in to school to write the stupid essay exam. I was sort of worried about it because it was another one where we had to write three short essays in 50 mins. I hate writing by hand. There were 5 questions to choose from, they weren’t too bad though. I wrote about:

1. Communication difficulties between doctors and patients and how this can be improved
2. What Canada needs to prioritize with regards to mental health in adults and children
3. The effects of a positive attitude following diagnosis with a chronic and/or life threatening illness such as cancer

This was for health psych. I felt like I answered each question fairly thoroughly. I brought up lots of examples from things we had talked about in class. I don’t think my essay writing was as good as it would be if I could proof read it and edit it, but I think it was coherent. Just maybe not QUITE as organized writing as I would like. There just isn’t time in 50 mins. I wrote about 2-3 pages on each subject so my pencil was just flying the whole time, and afterwards my hand hurt. I do so much better with a keyboard. I can write neatly enough but I just have trouble organizing my thoughts on paper.

So that class is done with, and I just have a final left in my other class, it’s not until the 11th. Also I am less worried about it, as it is the exact same format as our midterms for that class, and I’ve been getting really high grades on all of those so I think I have figured out how to study for them. (That’s why I was worried about the exam I wrote today, I didn’t feel like I knew how to study for it, but I guess I did ok. I probably studied more than I needed to in fact, as the questions were much more general than I had expected). I have a 91% average on the midterms for that class, but my grade is going to go down due to a 10% portion for class participation, and I’ve skipped that class a fair amount, so have missed probably half the days when we had class participation going on. That’s basically a whole letter grade I will have lost for trying to maintain my sanity. Which really pisses me off but I knew that every time I skipped that class, there was a chance I’d be missing “class participation” (which involves sitting in groups for 10 mins and brainstorming, then somebody from the group answers a question on the board).

Some days though, I just haven’t been able to make myself go to school. Probably a lot of days this term. But I feel like I’ve come through the term quite well overall, in spite of all that, I am probably going to get decent grades (I am guessing an A- in each course), and I actually feel like I’ve learned something from the health psych class at least. So it wasn’t all a total waste. I am doing next term, taking two classes including the fucking stats course. Ugh.

After the exam I went over to the library and spent ages trying to figure out where the music collections were. They have changed everything since they renovated. I finally had to ask. I took out Tyler and I’s old fall back duet, by Stamitz (who was a string player from the classical period who had a fondness for the viola and actually wrote some stuff for viola and cello). The library only had one of the duo’s though, there are a few others that we have played in the past but I can’t find anywhere in our house. I went to the music store on my way home and they didn’t have them either, so I guess we will have to order them online or something.

Then I went to the pharmacy, paid a stupid amount for drugs (my health plan is the type that you submit receipts to get reimbursed rather than them paying up front… a pissoff). And then came home and crawled back into bed. I only napped for about 2 hrs though so that wasn’t too bad. Then we got up and played the Stamitz. My hand is sore today from yesterday and I have a blister raising on my little finger, but I feel a bit more like… confident or something with the instrument again. It actually seems to come back pretty fast, the basics at least.

Ciaran has been scratching a lot, but I’m not sure if it’s still fleas, as the cats seem to have no fleas now and I still have yet to find one on Ciaran. I’m worried she might be getting dry winter skin or something. She’s really irritating her skin in some places from scratching and her hair is thinning on her tummy from it. I think maybe next week if it doesn’t clear up we’ll have to get her in to see the vet. I just don’t know if she’ll calm down enough there for them to actually look at her skin.

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There are Christmas decorations all over the place at work. It’s kind of disturbing.

Last night I was hit with a longing for my “old life” (ie, when I used to be a cello player), in a big way. I don’t know what triggered it exactly. It does happen to me from time to time though. It gave me major insomnia. I pulled my cello out of the case and it felt both foreign to me and so familiar at the same time. I even cried this time which usually doesn’t happen. I then went to the websites for all the adult amateur orchestras around that I know, looking at rehearsal schedules, and I even emailed an inquiry out to one of them that I might be able to join. I don’t know that I have time for it, but I just miss playing so much sometimes. Today I played studies and my fingers are so weak. My brain still remembers what to do, but the muscles are not there. I have no callouses, my fingers are soft and useless. But suddenly I feel like maybe I should start finding the time to play every day and build my ability back up. Maybe we can get a small string quartet together for a weekly reading session, or maybe I can join one of the orchestras for a little while.

I guess it all comes down to… with my life… I don’t have it all figured out just yet. There’s still a lot of stuff going on under the surface that is unresolved. I still have a lot of emotion attached to my cello. I never really chose to stop playing, but it’s been almost 8 years since I have played it seriously. That’s almost exactly as long as I ever DID play it seriously.

Anyway, I have no answers about this. Just lots of wondering about what my future holds, and what it could hold if my problems with anxiety weren’t a factor.

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Today was a day off. Tyler was teaching this afternoon. I went over to my dad’s to help him with some graphics stuff. Then I came home and went for a little bike ride before I had to pick Tyler up. I didn’t go far, just around the neighborhood for maybe 20 mins, but it felt so good. I really like bike riding and I think it is good for my knee to get it moving like that (because cycling isn’t really impact at all, but it gets the joint moving through its range of motion quite smoothely). I just have to take it easy at first since my muscles are weak, especially in that leg, and I have to try to focus on keeping my knee in line with where it should be. It has a tendency to want to turn inwards which puts more stress on the joint, this is due to muscle weakness. The muscles have gotten really weak because I favor the leg, since it hurts to put weight on it. Now that I’m basically healed from the surgery though, there is less pain than there was BEFORE the surgery and I guess once I get the hyaluronic acid injection there will be even less pain. So it is getting easier again to work on strengthening the muscles up, which will in turn help protect the joint better.

This next week or two is going to be really crazy, so I am trying to mentally gear myself up for it. I have exams, I have big Christmas craft shows, and work as usual on top of it all. We should make a decent amount of Christmas money from the craft shows though!

Tonight we have new House to watch.

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A fairly uneventful day. Took Tyler to work. Napped. Picked him up again. Went to work myself. Quiet tonight at work. I was knitting a scarf. Still haven’t been out on my bike, the weather has been shitty. I have tomorrow off so maybe if it isn’t too wet I will have a go at it.

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