It was 1:15 PM when I finally got around to eating breakfast... and I wasn't really even that hungry. That happens sometimes when you eat all you can at an all you can eat sushi place.
I got a response from the Elders regarding the letter I wrote (with the help and input of my small group). We (the small group) are going to have dinner with them this Friday, to talk through some things and hopefully to build the "right" type of unity (which is a unity of consensus-building, not a unity by driving out those who disagree with your view). I think it's a good step in the right direction, and I hope that it is a productive time.
Since I'm doing that, I'm going to have to pass on the backgammon tournament that weekend. Play starts on Thursday afternoon, and goes through all of Friday and Saturday. I would be missing too much of Friday, and would probably end up having to forfeit a match or two, which would basically be a waste of money. Instead of entering the main tournament, I'm just going to take Saturday to play in some of the side games.
The countdown to the end of the semester has begun. It ends the first week of May. I've got one more round of midterms this week, and then finals a couple weeks later. My notes are almost all planned out, and as soon as that's done I can finish up those review sections for the textbook and send it off to the publisher. I'm aiming to have that done before the end of the month.
I've been going to the chiropractor to get my neck fixed. I haven't had any pain at all in the last couple weeks, and hopefully the neck curvature will be right soon. The therapy isn't bad, even though it looks and sounds a bit medieval. First, I do a neck exercise (a combination of muscle development and stretching), then I put my head in a harness and get strapped to a machine with weights that pulls it to the left. Then I get put in another harness that pulls my head backward while simultaneously pulling my neck forward (to introduce the curvature). Then I have various back and neck joints popped by the chiropractor. I'm usually in and out in about 30 minutes, so it isn't that bad.
And I finally got my tax refund.
