I hurt. Pain managed is not the same thing as pain controlled.

Time flows strangely for me. Days where weeks happen, weeks where days happen, that sort of thing.

Made some progress on Durant Vol 2 which is only 28 hours. Had a few good days on the bike consecutively. With some effort and no unplanned hospitalizations, in a week or two I might be approaching where I was as of October/November as far as mileage.

My baby brother has graduated from heavy equipment school and received orders to report to Camp LeJeune for his duty posting. I'm supposed to travel to see his graduation ceremony at the end of the month, health willing.

Ten days from now I perform Benjamin Britten's War Requiem with the Ann Arbor Symphony. Audio Link. It's a really powerful piece of music, made moreso by the poetry interspersed throughout and the theological conflict taking place within the composer. My director has made a point to give mini-lectures throughout our rehearsals about how this is unhappy music, composed about conflict by a person who spent most of their life in both internal and external conflict while simultaneously believing fiercely in pacifism. It's officially dedicated to and was commissioned for the rebuilding of the Coventry Cathedral, but Britten himself said that it was dedicated to the dead of World Wars I & II.

To those who are around, it's going to be quite a night at Hill, hope you all can make it.