04 NOV 25

Morning is a Jackson Pollock of Demogorgon crunch cereal and burger royales and eye drops and Little Women and handmade flip books on post-its and cranberry harvesting and isosceles triangles and Yali trying to convince Patience that the correct way to spell “poodle” is P-O-D-Y-7...

At lunch there's still a large moth loose in the kitchen as the outdoors warms gently into the 70s...

And post-classes Yali is meticulously daubing fake blood on his face with a paintbrush in Patience's dance practice mirror...

Orthodontist for Patience... turquoise bands to match her dress for Milwaukee...

Beef stroganoff for Puck as he tinkers on the Lincoln under a rising yellow moon...

Patience thundering around at the studio prepping for Arkansas and Wisconsin...

Yali chewing ice cubes... carefully painting eyepieces for his recently concocted superhero...

...as Oxbear texts photos from the arcade at Dave & Busters grabbing chow with co-workers...

Run back to grab Patience as the moon keeps rising...

Back late as Yali hustles into the kitchen to greet us... seeming very eager to keep me out of the living room... “Yali... did you burn something while I was gone?” // **immense guilt** “I was just trying to solder the eye things onto my costume!”