status post cheerios and froot loops

so yesterday we just got 24.1.3. the third disk. without the second disk, needless to say, the third disk is entirely useless to us. might as well forget the whole thing. i do hope disk two arrives today.

it's friday on star island. the last full day. the week does go by fast there. everyone's clean from their biweekly shower (tuesdays and thursdays). it's banquet night; people will get dressed up. the teenagers (if they're like teenagers when i was a teenager, which is a mystery in itself) will be up all night, talking, sharing, hooking up, drinking, and then decamp at about 4am tomorrow to east rock to watch the sunrise. i wonder if they'll sing the beatles song as it rises, as we did?

tomorrow morning, after breakfast, the boat takes them back to the mainland. used to be portsmouth, nh, now apparently it's a different port town. things do change. they will chant, "we will come back! we will come back!" jennifer will go back to ohio (and rick will be back too, from the silk road, in another couple of days) and mom and dad will go back to maryland. and lives will go back to the way they were.

so no one recognizes the painting of the naked people on the rug by the mirror? disappointing.