I decided to spend the second half of my day at the SMART Home, which seems to be unravelling itself as my second home. Brilliantly, in discussing my book with Joshua, I found out that both he and Leroy, one of the other instructors at the home were really huge into long distance running, which is a very central topic of my book. I had the opportunity to have a chat with Leroy, the more religious runner of the two, and the insight he gave me into the world of running is invaluable. I’d love to be able to able to have more discussions like these with other runners. For each person seems to have their own way to prepare for a run.

I got a drum lesson today from Joshua. It seemed like pretty basic stuff at first. And then I realised something. Your four limbs all speak different dialects, and they can’t communicate with each other. I remember practicing on my mom’s drum set as a kid. Wanted to pull all my hair out. But, now that I’ve gone clean on the top, I guess I’d just have to start reaching into my under arms. And once that’s depleted… oh never mind. Let’s not go there.