I hear Stefan is doing really well and that makes me really happy and proud. I'm going to visit Maryland for the last three weeks of December and I cannot express how excited I am. I'll be able to go to tutorials and seminar possibly get a small taste of what Stefan's been doing (Laurel offered to give me some homeschooling projects. Yay!). And I might do some cooking.

Life has been pretty ordinary.

I started physical therapy last week. I get to do these super duper sweet exercises with therabands and a bosu balls including this thing that makes me look like a cowboy that just dismounted a horse for the first time in his life. I've been very inclined to do the whole galloping thing while swinging the lasso and all. The whole shabang. I told my physical therapist that I'm a Crossfit trainer and my family runs a gym and he said "Oh that's great! So you have access to all this great equipment." referring to the fit balls and pink dumbells against the wall. "Actually no," I say. Sigh. Two more weeks of this fun.

I just finished 1984 by George Orwell and have started Brave New World, by Huxley. It's pretty terrifying. The former has put me in a mindset where I wonder what it would be like if not only the government could detect our thoughts but also the people in our proximity. It's a weird thought and I wouldn't like it. You don't want to know what I'm thinking. I may appear innocent on the outside but...
Or it could be that I'm just watching to much Heroes.

I watched Grizzly Man on Friday night. It's about Timothy Treadwell, who lived with grizzlies in Alaska for 13 summers before he was eaten by one. I think this was one of Herzog's lighter themed movies though he doesn't hesitate to express his view:
"...I differ with Treadwell. He seemed to ignore the fact that in nature there are predators. I believe that the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder." -Werner Herzog
Papa and I got a good laugh out of this. It is apparent, though, from his other movies such as Aguirre, Wrath of God which depicts the story of a band of rebellious Spanish conquistadors exploring the Amazon. They are eventually all driven crazy and/or killed off by disease or hostile natives.