April 27, 2003

• Happy Sunday everyone!

  
  

  I'm going to be back in Canada before I know it if time keeps flying by the way ot seems to here. I know it may sound weird, but I love routine and stability. I function best when my schedule is fixed and my future certain (or as certain as it can be in this life). Leave me to drift, especially in a place with few prospects, and I flounder. But anyhow...

  
  

  Well, I have to say that I'm feeling much better. I'm still a little shy of 100%, but essentially I seem to have ditched the lung infection, the sinus infection, and the bronchitis. Feels nice to be healthy. I lost about 7 pounds during my 6 weeks of sickness, making it the first time I've dropped below my "minimum weight" in years. What I call my "minimum weight" is the weight I don't ever drop below, no matter what. Well, six weeks with no appetite did it. I dropped 4 pounds below it to 163. But now that I have my appetite back, I'm sure it's going to shoot right back up to normal again. But anyhow, it sure is nice to feel pretty much healthy again.

  
  

  Spring in Korea is a fascinating thing. I'm used to Newfoundland, where Spring is stretched out over all of April and May at least. Here, in a matter of a couple of weeks, everything went from bare to leafy, just like that. It's really startling. The temperature is summery and everything is green, except for all the flowering trees and shrubs, which are bright pink and red and white. Back in Newfoundland last week, near where my family lives, a boat sank because it got crushed in the ice....

  
  

  Over the past couple of days, I've written a whopping 16 lines of my song The Noble Death of Michael Birdsley, which is about a guy who gets crushed to death by a vending machine. For those of you unfamiliar with the slowness of my writing, that really is a huge amount of progress. I started this song over a year ago. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't like to set a line down on paper until it's perfect, since it's all so closely interconnected. I really want to get a bunch of my songs completed, especially since there's recording on the horizon. When I get back to Canada, Byron and I are planning to get together and record intensively for about 3 weeks or more, for the reissue of the first CD and hopefully enough for the second.

  
  

  Speaking of the return to Canada, that's a whole entry in itself. Suffice it to say that I have profoundly mixed feelings. But there's still plenty of time to think about it. April 19th was our halfway point here in Korea, so we now have more time behind us than ahead. Fascinating.

  
  

  There may be some pictures soon. One of my co-workers has been given a scanner by her brother. She needs me to help her learn how to use it, so she's going to bring it over here. I've spoken before of the vast quantity of scanning that needs to be done... Well, there seems to be hope that it may actually happen some time before the universe cools and implodes.

  
  

  Anyhow, there's another excessively long entry for you. Thanks for dropping by. I'll try to increase the frequency of my posts, but there are no guarantees. I'll certainly let you know if and when the pictures are up on the website.

  
  

  Take care
  -Justin-

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