Journal
Aleks’s journal
Small country, small supply, big determination.
The list on the fridge
week 8steady energy 33 replies
A quiet week. I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on the fridge. That list is the most useful thing I own. Spread it across…
Dreams
week 6foggy energy 54 replies
Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning…
She stopped the room
week 5warm energy 54 replies
Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said…
Nothing to report
week 3fine energy 11 reply
Short one tonight. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. Quiet.…
Standing in the kitchen
week 2hopeful energy 32 replies
The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop reading it. I want…
Beginning, badly
week 1nervous energy 33 replies
A quiet week. I want to write this down before I forget how frightened I was, because I suspect in three months I will not believe it. Twenty minutes of standing there. Then…