February 6th: days of indoor leisure
[ posted by mcdeviltoast ]
Day 143
Woke at 9:30, thanked Rhys and Jeni for the accomodations, returned to the empty school. The rainy grey is taking its toll on me. I keep waking up dreading the weather, and the weather keeps giving me reason to dread. I bought a phone card and once again my phone won't accept the code, so I can't call Rose to tell her I got the package and to see if she could switch the internet back on.
I wrote, did laundry, played piano for a while. I have the changes to "At the In-Between" corrected, and it's a more interesting dynamic song now. I almost have the words to the "whiskey stomp" song. The chorus is very important. I want to make it Beatlesy, simple and memorable that the audience will be singing along with by the third refrain. Happy songs are difficult to write. The Beatles make it sound so easy.
I pedaled over to Dongzhou, Mike and I had a couple beers, ate some kickass beef jerky (cheers, Mum and Dad) while watching a Led Zeppelin DVD. Rhys and Jeni joined us and we all went to Sandy's for potato goodness and spicy chicken whatnot. Afterwards, we watched "Hero" (equally stunning as "Flying Daggers")and then I pedaled home.
At the gate, another package was there for me from Jenn. This one contained a heap of tea (Earl Grey in there for teasing) some T-shirts, Paperback CD and poster, a couple postcards, nag champa incense, some packets of Cincinnati chili. I almost cried it was so cool. I miss my people and can't wait to see them again. I promised myself to mail something to them en masse tomorrow. I watched BBC for a bit, then tucked myself in.
Woke at 9:30, thanked Rhys and Jeni for the accomodations, returned to the empty school. The rainy grey is taking its toll on me. I keep waking up dreading the weather, and the weather keeps giving me reason to dread. I bought a phone card and once again my phone won't accept the code, so I can't call Rose to tell her I got the package and to see if she could switch the internet back on.
I wrote, did laundry, played piano for a while. I have the changes to "At the In-Between" corrected, and it's a more interesting dynamic song now. I almost have the words to the "whiskey stomp" song. The chorus is very important. I want to make it Beatlesy, simple and memorable that the audience will be singing along with by the third refrain. Happy songs are difficult to write. The Beatles make it sound so easy.
I pedaled over to Dongzhou, Mike and I had a couple beers, ate some kickass beef jerky (cheers, Mum and Dad) while watching a Led Zeppelin DVD. Rhys and Jeni joined us and we all went to Sandy's for potato goodness and spicy chicken whatnot. Afterwards, we watched "Hero" (equally stunning as "Flying Daggers")and then I pedaled home.
At the gate, another package was there for me from Jenn. This one contained a heap of tea (Earl Grey in there for teasing) some T-shirts, Paperback CD and poster, a couple postcards, nag champa incense, some packets of Cincinnati chili. I almost cried it was so cool. I miss my people and can't wait to see them again. I promised myself to mail something to them en masse tomorrow. I watched BBC for a bit, then tucked myself in.
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[ posted by mcdeviltoast @ 2/06/2005 04:20:00 AM ]
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