10/25/01
BGM of choice: Red Garland "This can't be love".

"Arthroscopic surgery of the partially torn miniscus on the left knee..."

I had my left knee operated yesterday, Wednesday july 24th, at Strong Memorial Hospital.

Up until the night before i was playing soccer (pretty well i might add), swimming, and and being hyperactive.

I was at the Eastman Music School till the wee-hours the night before.

And on the day of the surgery, you could see me stopping by at University Health Services to borrow crutches, which i then carried and ran with, to get to the hospital.

Looking at my reflection on the glass windows at Clarc, I thought to myself
"this is like carrying around your own casket", a far-fetched analogy, but nonethelss is a little fitting.

--------- i walk to the hospital on 2 feet and come back on a wheel chair... ----------

think about it.
mildly ironinc, wouldn't you say?


the surgery lasted an hour.

i was put on general anasthesia, so all i remember is thinking...
no , i didn't really have the time to think .

i was put on a stretcher gliding past walls of doctors.

i remeber the guy bumped the strecher against a wall and said something like,
"hmm, the steering is not what it used to be.."

Anyway.... i was then put on a surgical table surrounded by a whole team of doctors and nurses. i remeber thinking "ithoughtthis would only be a small ordeal," looking at the lifelike set of the surgical room. yes , this was really happening.

it was a small room.
sanitation satisfactory... not superbly clean as i would have imagined it would be, it seemed a little old, oh well.
I saw my MRI (magnetic resonance imagings) hanging on the walls.
somehow wondering if they were really mine.
i said "hi" to one of the nurses, who was pleasantly attractive.

then,

i woke about an hour later.
i don't even remember when i lost consciousness.
i don't recollect being placed those oxygen masks that i was supposed to have on. for the general anasthesia either.

i lost consiousness with only the faint smile of the attractive doctor or nurse as memory of the surgery .

i was given some apple juice , which surprisingly was to my liking.
and left the hospital on a wheel chair to my friends's waiting car...

左ひざ半月盤の傷を切り取るため昨日午後　大学医学部病院で手術を受けた。

ちなみに今僕の聴いているＢＧＭは上のRed Garlandでなく　
Claude Bolling が編曲したNew york New york　
Red Garland "this can't be love " は　でもおやはり勧め

手術から一日　天気が申し分の無いくらいに晴れた木曜日　
特に動くこともなく部屋やリビングのソファーで本を片手にまどろんでいる。。。
松葉杖をたよりに　よっちよっち　と部屋からベランダへ移動したり

手術の経過は英語テキストでかいたのでそちらをよんでください。
すぐ日本語でも書くけれど。。。

first lessons in jazz.
----transcibe some music.

done!

i ve just finished two choruses of transcribing Lou Donaldson's (saxophone) "Brother Soul".

i saw Fuat Tanman, my roommate for 4 days last year, at the swimming pool.

tomorrow is my pre-op at the medical center, so i will most likely be off sports for a bit.


今朝は彼女へ電話
約束どおりの時間に間に合った、〜　可愛いなぁ♪　デレデレ。。　したい．

今日は４時間ピアノを弾いた、ふふふ４時間！
主にショパンのE Minor ノクターンと　バッハ　三声のインヴェンション

ジャズの授業の課題であった　曲の書き取り　（曲を聴いて楽譜に書くこと）　も終えた。
Gowen Room　で　ピアノに向かって黙々と音を探ってたら　思ったより早くできた。
ルー・ドナルドソンというサックス奏者の”Ｂｒｏｔｈｅｒ　Ｓｏｕｌ”って曲。
あと　
数曲のメロディー・コードを入手！
ビル・エヴァンズ　”Ｗａｌｔｚ　ｆｏｒ　Ｄｅｂｂｙ”も♪

夜遅く帰る途中　小さなコーヒーテーブルを拝借。
これで　部屋に　おそろいの　いすとテーブル
明日は手術のプレオプという事前面談だ。
うぅ〜　やっかいだな

来週から芝居のリハーサルが始まる。。

10/15/01
政治思想Democratic Theoryという授業の課題レポートを夜を徹して　作成中
☆^~　が空から消え始め、　だんだんと朝日が登ってくる時間だ

徹夜といっても　ずっと　レポート書いているわけではないんだ
ある時間を過ぎるともう　寝るには遅すぎるん
う〜ん　明朝　は　インターンで朝早いから　寝過ごしたら　やばい
　　　　　　　　　う〜ん　それは　やばい
徹夜決定！！

こうすると急に時間があるような気がするんだよね
さっきまであんな切羽詰まっていたのに．．．

「おう！！
　たまっている　奨学生の雑誌を読もう！」
（実は平和中島財団という所の奨学生なんです　一応．．．ね）

で
またすごく　影響受けた。

ほんと努力してる人いるな　やはり

いろいろと周りで頑張っている人たちの様子を見るともうすこし頑張ろうと思った。