He'll be joining the camp around the middle of the week.

It's like a heel in the middle of my foot that I can roll off, ... It's sort of like a see-saw - motion in one direction produces motion in another. If the nerves don't come back, I'll be wearing the brace forever. They (the doctors) don't know if the nerves will come back.

First there was a seven-week training camp in Perth and then we arrived in Montreal two weeks before I had to swim.

They came out of there with a swagger I haven't seen before, and they've kept it all week. Our goal is for us to hit 24 routines and be close enough to put pressure on Georgia when they're on the last event on the balance beam.

To have a week off in the middle of the season feels like a lot longer I think, so I feel really good. Hopefully I can go out there and get some runs.

How remote we were too from the crazy musicians who arrived on a blustery fall day with the idea that, since this was a financial center, there would be a rain of coins from the tall buildings in response to their trumpet, guitar, and bass fiddle. The wind swirled their jazz among the canyons. I saw that no one was paying them the slightest attention. Feeling guilty, I threw them a quarter, but they didn't see it. They danced and made jazz in the cold, while upstairs we went on with our work, and they didn't exist, and it was nobody's fault.