Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Personal Update

I expected to have "The Stroke -- Part 2" up by January 31, which was the second anniversary of my hospital stay, but the truth is that I haven't even started it yet.

I sent "The Stroke --- Part 1" to a lot of people who didn't know I was sick in the first place (Big ego guy that I am, I thought everybody knew).

So although I will at some point tell everybody the entire story, I do need to skip to the end and tell everyone that I am working full-time, and seem to have suffered only minimal damage from the stroke, for reasons that I will speculate on when I finally finish the piece.

In the meantime, the reading of my play on General Grant went pretty well last Sunday night, although there are rewrites to be done. I also scheduled a public reading of a chapter of my novel --- "The Last Audition" for the end of February. We are renovating the co-op, and I have a full-time job. So my plate is pretty full.

I have lost 9.4 pounds so far during my 6 weeks on Weight Watchers. The hardest thing so far is getting enough exercise in this New York winter.

I find that my slow pace is a typical WW experience. You always think you ought to be moving faster, but you never do. If you think you are going too slowly, you tend to gain all the weight back -- at least on WW.