Saturday Morning - Day One

It's early. At least it's early for me to be up and running around making last minute preperations for this trip. Kristen still sleeps. We were up late last night visiting at the Red Garter after Cody's reading at the Poe Center. Lots of friends came to see K and M off so we all played musical chairs (the kind where you add a chair when the song is up) and took turns visiting with different friends. That's the best thing about K and M leaving. They leave lots of friends behind...friends they are significantly responsible for bringing together. I am glad to live here and know when I return these good folks will still be here...

At midnight we drove over to Mister & K's empty apartment to deliver our pull-out mattress bed to them so they'd have something to sleep on their last night in Tucson. Everything was clean and all the rooms bare. Polly, the cat, was acting kinda weird and meowing sort of frantically...I took the old painting/collage that used to hang over their bed...later, I'll destroy it and then give it a new look. We left without hugs or tears.

I wasn't tired enough when we got back home and stayed up talking with Cody by the pool for awhile. Politics and poetry...one of my favorite topics...and then K came out to remind me of the time. By the time I came to bed I was very very tired and fell asleep pretty quickly. But this morning a fly woke me up at quarter to 8. Like an alarm clock, every 10 minutes or so it came to land on my eye or my mouth. Every 10 minutes, every 5, and then it just wouldn't go away. I got up. It's a beautiful cool shiny morning. I have cleaned to office for Kris so she can claim the space while I'm gone. I made coffee. I wrote this...it's almost time to go. If I can find a free wireless connection tonight, I'll check in.

Now, on to breakfast at the Cup, then the goodbyes...hugs and tears...see ya!