monday

okay, woke at 6, got up, didn't shower, since the waste line is filled with shit, an the plumber won't come until tonight.

got a chai (no coffee for like a week now), then on to screwball. steve hadn't finished printing the 'animals & objects...' poster, so i headed over to sonnenzimmer. nick and nadine arrived just after me. nadine went to work, nick an i worked at sonnenzimmer all day. i curated the sound opinions reprints, sorting the good prints (1115) from the bad (83), counting them, stacking them by groups of 25, and then spent the rest of the day signing and numbering them. overall, they look really good.

photo of stacks of posters to follow.

around 11:30, we ordered pizzas from a place nearby, then walked down to get them. back to the shop, i signed for the rest fo the afternoon, until 3:30, when we drove some big boxes over to fedex so nick could ship them. i took off for screwball, where steve was just beginning the fourth screen on the 'animals & objects' prints. as soon as he had a good one, i took it and drove down to logan square, ten down to tannagram design, near washington and halsted. yann came out, and we met up with a dude i met on craigslist, from whom i bought a brooks bike seat. yann and i took off for rick valicenti's new THIRST studio near the dianogah practice space. thirst is now above richard wright's modern furniture collection building. amazing.

marian bantjes is a graphic artist from near vancouver. her work was unusual and really interesting. i am still processing what i saw. rick had invited a bunch of folks (like yann) over to visit with marian while she's passing through town. nice evening, pizza, cookies.

drove yann home, then headed north. joe the plumber had arrived early and was finishing more quickly then i expected, so i had to get home. joe found the root of our problem, so to speak: a tree or bush has broken into the line coming from the grease trap into our house before it meets up with the main line that goes to the street. for the time being, we are fine and shower again, though we will soon have to dig the whole thing up. a bunch of money later, we know exactly the amount of shit we are in.

bloggy now, then eat some pizza leftovers, then sleep. okay.