saturday

since the weather was reasonable, we walked seth up to central street first thing, and got chai.

came home and made a fire, worked on the tiny showcase image a bit. hung some more stuff in the recently-painted en and dining room.

around 1, i went over to TBM and shuffled around, surveying the remaining work, of which there is annoyingly little. i hope to finish these handful of illustrations asap, to turn my full attention to the shop.

at 2pm, sara showed up to see the shop. on renate's advice, i contacted sara, a recent art institute grad, to interview her to work for me as printer and general around-the-shop help. she didn't seem the least bit fazed by the current mess of the shop, she was upbeat without being annoying, and i am optimistic about being able to work well with her. she lives right near metropolis coffee, so she took the train, and a bus to get to the shop, which wasn't too bad. we left the shop, and stopped by kaufmann's for sandwiches, noted where the yellow line el stops, for a different commuting option for her, and then drove downtown.

stopped briefly by mat's studio to drop off the two pallet knives i got for him, then went to ispace to take the show down.

mary and kari were both there. we four had a good visit, then kari, sara and i took the show down quickly. packed it up, and i drove sara home. we stopped at metropolis to see if tony was there (he wasn't), and i picked up something for di and myself, said bye to sara, and drove home.

i stopped at 'our old' video adventure rental place we used to use, to pick up some movies, and had to pay $5 in late fees from 2003 (for kate & leopold, hmmmm).

at home, di had made another batch of soup based on christy's amazing mushroom soup recipe (from new years eve). i ate, then we watched 'sunshine', which in some ways was really great, and in some ways was really disappointing. i think generally i'd give it the thumbs down, despite my love of apocolyptic sci-fi like this.

into bed, not too tired, then realized it was only 10pm, so we read for a while. i started in on 'the road' by cormac macarthy. already i'm hooked.