Some families...tsk tsk tsk

Since the tuba part (still only on the first movement here) just rolled out of the printer, I have finished the winds and the brass, and have percussion, harp, piano and strings left. Remember, this is just the first movement. Hubby assures me that the second movement will be easier, even though that�s the one with all the aleatoric notation, and I�m not so that I�m in agreement with him. After all, I�m the one telling the computer what to do, not him.

Stu did not leave as early as we had hoped or dreamed this morning, since he was prolonging his own stay away from home. This is one screwed-up family, if I may say so. I�m very fond of Stu and his wife--they are fine folks--but somewhere along the line they really screwed up badly with their kids. They have three of them, a 19-year-old son who got his girlfriend pregnant at the age of 14, was a father at 15, and has just lost custody of his child because the mother was tired of living in poverty and gave up the kid to social services; a 15-year-old daughter who has been anorexic for a year and has ended up in hospital on several occasions close to death by starvation; and another daughter, 12 or 13 years old, who seems, so far, to be all right. These are the last people you would expect to have problems with their kids. Hubby and I, after hearing Stu�s latest round of woes, just looked at each other and thanked our lucky stars that our offspring have been relatively problem-free.

Speaking of offspring, Little Princess� boyfriend has dumped her for the second, and hopefully last, time. She is understandably despondent, but has a very loyal group of friends who are supporting her to the max. The funny thing is that many of these friends are originally the erstwhile lover�s comrades, and it was through him that she entered this particular circle. Hubby and I are relieved. While we liked this young fellow, we always felt that she could do better. He impressed us as being immature, irresponsible, and boring. She is brilliant and deserves someone more on her intellectual level. This is not just a doting mother talking, her CEGEP average so far is around 86% in pure and applied science, her lowest mark having been the most advanced French course, and yet she was still doing better than many of her French-mother-tongue colleagues.

This entry is just a delaying tactic. I really don�t want to sit down at the Quadra again to continue with part extraction. Both my wrists are hurting, and I envisage tendonitis down the road if I keep up this intensity much longer. There is no help for it. The work must go on.

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