Wednesdays are split days

You see, half my day is spent in one part of the hospital, doing data analysis, and the other half is spent over on the Cardiothoracic wards, doing data collection and coding. (Apropos of nothing in particular, it keeps me aware of where the data I analyse is coming from, which is probably a good thing. I suffer no delusions about the ultimate accuracy of said data.) So the day is somewhat divided in half; especially when lunch is spent with a friend, showing her the Ayumi Kasai artbook I managed to snag off ebay. So, so gorgeous. (My mother's comment was that it reminded her of Beardsley, only with the space much more occupied.)

Scales project just took a quantum leap. This is very good. Let me just finish current bit of writing (9K words to go) and I will be a happy woman and getting back to the dragons.

(Not that other people don't also do magnificent dragons. Dammit, I swear I'm going to try to rework Jichin's basic writeup to give him a bit less "how teams operate in practice" and a bit more genuine background interest. Dragons of the East deserve it.)

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What the hell. In lieu of any attempts by myself tonight, here's a real sestina.

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The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina

Somewhere in everyone's head something points toward home,
a dashboard's floating compass, turning all the time
to keep from turning. It doesn't matter how we come
to be wherever we are, someplace where nothing goes
the way it went once, where nothing holds fast
to where it belongs, or what you've risen or fallen to.

What the bubble always points to,
whether we notice it or not, is home.
It may be true that if you move fast
everything fades away, that given time
and noise enough, every memory goes
into the blackness, and if new ones come-

small, mole-like memories that come
to live in the furry dark-they, too,
curl up and die. But Carol goes
to high school now. John works at home
what days he can to spend some time
with Sue and the kids. He drives too fast.

Ellen won't eat her breakfast.
Your sister was going to come
but didn't have the time.
Some mornings at one or two
or three I want you home
a lot, but then it goes.

It all goes.
Hold on fast
to thoughts of home
when they come.
They're going to
less with time.

Time
goes
too
fast.
Come
home.

Forgive me that. One time it wasn't fast.
A myth goes that when the years come
then you will, too. Me, I'll still be home.

-- Miller Williams