Today was as creatively productive as days get for me. After Andrea left I made breakfast and spent the day reading, writing and working on music. The song I've been working on is ready for bass and vocals. Recording a song was the only goal I set for myself this summer and it looks like I'll accomplish it just in time.

Andrea came over last night for dinner and we watched the end of Batman Begins, which construction work at Riverside had kept us from finishing. She crashed before midnight and I tried, but ended up on the couch for a couple of hours reading. Andrea and I are on different sleep schedules right now because she's been working quite a bit. I'm back to a routine where I'm awake until 2 or 3 before I can fall asleep, and then I'm out of bed at around 11. I'm looking forward to having work back in my life, because I'm apparently happiest when I'm going to bed at sunrise on a somewhat regular basis.

I devoured the rest of Fifth Business today. It may be the best book I've read so far this year. Davies' narrative structuring and language are amazing, and he has such a wonderful flair for writing passionate dialogue. There are a few moments in the text where characters talk at length and it never once gets dull. I feel richer for having read it.

I wrote a little over a thousand words today. Every time I sit down to write I'm producing something new and different from the last time. I'm trying to get at a story. I know it's there somewhere, I just have to keep digging.

Wicked was, well, wicked. It took a few liberties with Maguire's book - Boq is NOT the Tin Woodman, Fiyero is NOT the Scarecrow, Elphaba does NOT survive and escape the Emerald City with the Scarecrow, who is actually made the ruler of Oz after the Wizard leaves. But that's my inner geek talking. Visually it was astounding, and there were moments that took me back to the wonder I experienced when I first gained an interest in the books.

Speaking of Oz, I went to the In/Words open mic last night for the first time in over a year and read from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was very nice to hang out with old friends and talk about writing. I told Peter I'd like to help out with the magazine this year in some way, shape or form, but then I sent him a message telling him I wasn't sure it would be a good idea. I have a lot of energy to do something new, something that's going to help me grow as a writer. I think In/Words is behind me at this point, though it certainly provides a nostalgia factor.

I picked up my home theater system at Canada Post yesterday and hooked it up. I put on The Matrix and gauged the surround sound. Really incredible. I've ordered a new 42" TV and it's scheduled to arrive next week. It's going to change the way I watch movies. My living room is going to be bitchin'.

I started reading Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, a book that has eluded my attention despite it being a staple in high school English classrooms. I'd read The Manticore before, but I'd forgotten how talented Davies was.