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Odile

Bilingual paperwork nightmares.

Montreal, CA · Montreal, forty-three, civil servant, bilingual paperwork nightmares.

Their journal

46 entries, and Odile is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Friday 8 May 2026week 85flat energy 22 replies

    Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady. The strange part is not…

  • A1c down

    Monday 10 Nov 2025week 59pleased energy 11 reply

    A brief account of the week. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is apparently the only thing worth looking at. Improved. Everything…

  • Sunday lunch

    Friday 31 Oct 2025week 58warm energy 11 reply

    A brief account of the week. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. My mother cooks. That is how she says it.…

  • I nearly did not write

    Sunday 19 Oct 2025week 56steady energy 13 replies

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Steady. That is the whole entry. Bonne soirée.

  • A different shape

    Tuesday 7 Oct 2025week 54rested energy 34 replies

    The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that…

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22 Jun 2026 — What are you grateful to your body for?

Nothing to report. It is fine. We are on speaking terms.

17 Jun 2026 — What is going on with your skin, hair or nails?

Two weeks of feeling wrong that turned out to be a thyroid dose needing adjusting.

14 Jun 2026 — What have you said out loud this week that was hard to say?

My partner is finding this harder than I am and neither of us can say it.

30 May 2026 — What is your commute or your travel like at the moment?

Wrote three questions down for Thursday. I have never once remembered them otherwise.