April 25, 2002
London, Ontario

We are officially done recording......yipeeeeeeEEEEEEEE! I am so excited and pleased with everything that is happening. Mastering next week. Now onto obsessing about the artwork. I have been working for a YEAR (believe it or not) on the artwork and graphics for this album. Much of it is collage work I did on photoshop from a multitude of different sources. The wonderful and very talented Michael Wrycraft is going to help me out with the layout for the cover and booklet. I'm so excited to see how it all works out... Go team. 

March 25th, 2002
Toronto, Ontario

Happy Spring!!! Had my first day in the studio recording the new album. What a day... George Koller came to play. He is AMAZING. George will be playing a multitude of different basses on about 8 tracks, I believe... and I have even convinced him to sing a Gregorian Chant. We'll be recording an excerpt from "O Quanta Qualia" a hymn written by Peter Abelard in the 12th century. Abelard is famed in history for his tragic love affair with the lovely young Heloise. Their secret (but not secret for long...) relationship lead to his eventual castration and their independent sequesterment (is that a word?) in a monastery and nunnery for life... The song is from a selection of hymns called "Hymn for Heloise" that Abelard wrote during their long separation. Back in the studio tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day...