It was time for a haircut, so I got out the clippers and buzzed my hair down, then off to work. On the bus ride downtown, I was trying to remember if I had left the blinds open on my south-facing windows, which would have been quite unmoist. Fortunately, I had kept them closed when I left on Friday morning, so the room was still fairly cool. I got the cross breeze going, table dressed and plants watered, then sat down to wait for my first client.
He was 10 minutes late, but we had a very good session. I had 30 minutes before my next client, so I got the room ready again, did some stretching, and continued my re-reading of “The Educated Heart” by Nina McIntosh, a book on ethics for bodyworkers. I think it’s important to remind oneself of how to maintain professionalism and the therapeutic relationship from time to time.
Second client arrived and we got to work. Two hours later, he was wrung out like a limp dishrag, and I was hungry, so I walked over to Little Delhi at Eddy and Mason for some prawn biryani and vegetable korma and a sweet lassi.
Hopped on the bus and came home, then got on the sofa and continued my umpteenth read through of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Book Twelve (“The Gathering Storm”) is slated to come out in the fourth quarter of the year, and as is my habit, I do a complete re-read in anticipation. I have been a reader of this series since the late 1980s when the first book came out. Robert Jordan died in 2007, and his wife selected Brandon Sanderson to finish the series. The work proved to be huge, so they split it off into three volumes, to come out in 2009, 2010, and 2011. Even Jordan before his death thought that Tor would have to invent a new method for binding this last volume. The running joke over the life of the series has been that he’d be able to finish the series with “three more books.” I’m glad that that joke is proving to be true.
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