well, tomorrow is my last day at the lottery. I'm overwhelmed by the number of customers and mall employees who have expressed sadness at my leaving. Betty from the luggage store wants to have coffee with me on Wednesday mornings from now on, so I guess my feeling that we were becoming friends is correct. As always, I'm surprised that anyone wants to be my friend, but I'm happy anyway.

They lured me down to the mall on Sunday, Cindy and Liz my employees, Betty, and Eddie the security guard, to give me a card that they had secretly had a whole bunch of the customers sign. And a bunch of scratch and wins as a going-away present! One of my older admirers, Doug, who always wants to hold my hand, brought me a pink-iced heart-shaped biscuit. Which was actually very good, and I was hungry at the time as I'd forgotten to buy bananas so had no breakfast.

We signed up for Tai Chi on Sunday, and went to our first class yesterday. I feel very clumsy, but I found it oddly relaxing. It's a mixed bunch, the class, all shapes and sizes and ages, and lots of talking and laughing. I didn't concentrate as much as I could have, as I was watching M out of the corner of my eye. He seemed to be getting great joy out of it, and as I know he's waited a long time to start taking the classes it was fun to watch. I'm always confronted by my inability to reproduce movement that is made by someone facing me, poor spatial relations or something, I remember that from when I used to do aerobics in Edmonton.