Emily and I had a breakthrough yesterday, but then today I felt like I ran smack into a wall of creativity. I finally realized that it had two causes. 1) I was trying to design and build the show at the same time. 2) Emily tends towards abstraction in her design while I tend towards naturalism. These two tendencies work really well when we are working together, but when we are working on pieces separately then they clash. It’s very interesting. Anyway, around ten o’clock I finally understood what I wanted to make happen with one of the tales (Abu Al Hassan)and it fits with Emily’s vision. Hurrah. We’re meeting with Chris around noon tomorrow to work out Codadad which has been giving us fits.

I have clean clothes. It’s a beautiful thing. We went to the laundry mat this morning before we started working. While the clothes were running we went across the street for a muffin and coffee.