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Took today "off" in a way! Slept late, ate breakfast and then went back to sleep. Awoke in the early afternoon, made a sandwich, and watched a movie. The movie was Noise--an Australian mystery film. It was quite engaging, although the dialog was a bit muddled by the accents. There was a documentary on the DVD about the making of the film. The documentary was a great tutorial on how a film is made--from pre-production through final screening.

I'm holding steady on the PD front. Here's a recap. I'm still taking dance/exercise/movement classes each week and enjoying an acupressure session every Friday. My symptoms have become slightly more evident over the past six months. I may have to increase my medication. I'm evaluating that possibility. I continue to sleep a lot, especially on the days I do classes. I continue to read quite a bit and have watched about 200 movies over the past two years. I watch them with a friend who is an actor. He's 84 years old and still doing things on stage. His wife makes me a healthy lunch twice a week. He and I then watch a movie from his collection of films. It's been a treat to know and be with them.

Classes, movies, lunches, and reading are all fun, but I miss "doing" things. Unfortunately, one aspect of my PD situation is that I not only feel tired, but am cognitively slowed down quite a bit. I can actively concentrate for only short periods of time and have trouble doing anything complex. It's odd! Like a part of me is shut down, just like an engine that's not firing on all cylinders.

Dreamed last night that I was doing something with a big name software company. I was promoting an application that I thought would be a good one for the company to create. I was with an old business partner, CW. He and I were in a city where the company had its headquarters. The location and the building we were in were places I had dreamed about previously--or places in which I have had previous dreams. Strange sense seeing previous dreamscapes appearing in new dreams.