Monday, October 12, 1998
Day Seven

Today started at 6:00am. It was very hard to get up. And it’s raining, of course it’s Seattle so I shouldn’t be surprised.

We had a very busy, full day as our first day of school shows. The first show was at 9:30 in, ironically, Marysville. Our second show was in the same town at 2:00. This was nice ’cause it gave us plenty of time for lunch. So we went to Safeway to kill time. Lo and behold they were doing flu shots. Since we are surrounded daily by little snot machines, I always get a flu vaccine. This is Joe’s first.

The past two days we’ve been having a little problem with static, that we thought might have been cause by moisture in our system. Specifically sweat in our wireless transmitters, so while we were at Safeway we picked up the appropriate protective device. Condoms, unlubricated. Then it was off to our 2:00 show.

I’m cleaning out my bookshelves and finding that there are books to which I’m no longer attached, so those are going in “away” pile. But there are also books, which I love, that are in terrible shape. I have a copy of Louisa May Alcott’s The Old-Fashioned Girl (long one of my favorites) which is missing pages. This one was given to me in high school by a friend that knew that I loved old books, but I have never known what Tom says to Grandma. And yet…yet I think it’s going with me to New York.

Do you have things like that? Damaged, no rational reason for keeping, and yet precious.

This is what I have on my agenda for the weekend.

• Arabian Nights scenic design
• Repair Kids on the Block puppets
• Pack house
• Design two websites
• Clean for new housemate’s arrival