Saturday October 8th

Saturday was a poorly Jo day as her migraine flared up and was causing vision and balance disturbance. I packed her off to bed and got on with some work I had to do on the laptop – including writing her submission for the ICP who I made contact with earlier in the week and were happy to accept a portfolio submission for curatorial review. I enjoy the fact that I can help out, and Jo seems to like what I do, so not a bad combination on that front.

Jo requests a carrot juice mid-afternoon and so I trot off to the Deli for some supplies. The Deli’s over here are really rather interesting places – you can get all sorts of fill your own bowl of salads, fruit, hot food etc and although it is strange not finding any unprepared vegetables etc, after a while the benefits of being able to pick what you want and pay just by weight is actually rather attractive. I decided that Jo probably needs more than just carrot juice and my nose leads me to a rather nice looking chicken and vegetable soup which I can make rather broth like by skilful ladle use. This seems to be a good choice and by the evening, Jo has come back to life and wants to go and see another film…

So into a taxi we hop to Times Square and see “A History of Violence” with Vigo Mortesson playing the lead. Rather good I think, although the ending is a bit weak (the film just sort of stops!). It’s tipping down with rain when we leave so after a brief fight with the umbrella we hail another taxi and ride home in the dry.