hi, i'm writing this while sitting in jody's bathtub (sans water) here in manchester. it's 3am saturday locally, there's a big storm outside, and i can't sleep.
where to begin?
thursday morning, i woke around 6:30 and started working on the four (yet-to-be) paintings on the kitchen table. di ran errands and got me a chai. i added acrylic wash colors to the four pieces, and called them done. actually, i'm quite happy with them.
packed, showered, took the subaru with seth and all our bags to lorna's laces to leave with tyler and stephanie, the house-sitters. along the way, di stopped at a UPS store to ship off a couple of tony fitzpatrick etchings which she had sold on ebay.
the cab for the airport took 40 minutes to pick us up. along the ride to ohare, i made a bunch of calls and took care of the insurance claim for the fender bender the other day.
at ohare we had a typical check-in, except that after getting our tickets, we were in the security line, and diana noticed that the woman at the ticket counter had torn the main page of di's passport, so some numbers were missing. after paying a shit-ton to get the new passport expedited in time for this trip, di was rightly pretty pissed.
the flight was (of course) packed, and neither of us slept for more than 10 minutes at a time, if at all. the pilot came on the PA at one point with an "is there a doctor in the house?" request; some woman was having trouble breathing. a radiologist, an EMT, and various odd-job medical folks came to her rescue, macguyvering her into health with their motley array of medical skills.
we landed 45 minutes early, at 6:30 am. richard met us, and drove us to jody's house, where we met laura, jody's lovely new fiancee, and jody, as they were both on their way out for work. i wrote an email to the airline to complain about diana's passport, then di and i slept for a couple hours.
we woke at noon, embarrassed for taking so long, and called richard's wife, sharron, who came by to pick us up. we went to the gallery, saw richard and elli and met simon, the new help. walked around the corner to grab some lunch, and took it to the new RGG space to see the show there and ingrid (sharron's sister). great family, working together.
spent the afternoon hanging the stragglers of the prints for the show (most of the work was hung already). the place looks great. argued with simon over whether HUM is heavy or not. he likes electric wizard, a band i've never heard but whom i dislike just for their stupid name.
it rained and was dark for the afternoon (all day, actually) (typical manchester, from my experience).
back to richard and sharron's house for dinner with jody, ingrid and elli. both richard's and sharron's mums were at dinner, as was sharron's aunt. charming old ladies. dinner was great - i think it was the ame as the last time we ate there. soup with noodle cassarole, chicken, potatoes, corned (?) beef, green beans, and a dessert of chocolate mousse and apple pudding.
after dinner, jody drove old women home, and richard and i tried not to fall asleep on the couches. jody drove di and i back to his house, where we romptly crashed and slept until half past midnight, when i got up, read a juxtapose magazine on the can (hi tara!), then lay in bed for an hour before climbing into this tub to type.
no going to do more drawing for these patagonia shirts. must scan them and send them off today.
cheers.
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