07 MAY 26

Yali and Patience are sitting at the breakfast table harvesting the remains of last night's “candy salad” from the studio... gummy worms wrapped tightly around their fingers like multi-tone glass rings... the dog is also halfway through gently gnawing one of these gummy worm rings off Yali's index finger... and they occasionally ask why she's so fat...

Doesn't take much for Yali to shortly later walk into a “mood” over Math... “Dot plots Yali... found something less intense for you...” but it's still a cheese grater to him...

And hour later he takes a break to film lip-synched music videos in my closet which still hasn't been fully reconverted from Oxbear's old tiny-office... he blasts through the living room with a “microphone” he's spontaneously built from a small spray bottle liberally duct-taped to a bow rod... “I'll be recording in here Mom”...

About five full-length music videos later... we're into the afternoon... Math somehow also done while Yali and Patience watch Rick Steves ponder them through Oxford and Cambridge... fascinated... they are inspired... “I hope you've enjoyed our tour through the heart of England!” Rick says cheerfully... // “Oh we HAVE!” Patience declares to the television as Yali agrees with her... “Mom! We need to TRAVEL!”

Puck returns in the afternoon after having assisted J in purchasing a suit for his girlfriend's prom in Indiana that weekend... goofs around with the kids and the dog... Yali blasting the Aztec death whistle in the kitchen as hard as he can... “WOULDN'T THAT BE CREEPY TO HEAR IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT MOM?”...