05.11.02 - 6:59 pm

so, megan arrived and she smells so familiar, like a whole summer. we stood at baggage claim holding hands. later we found ourselves drunk on sangria in a beautifully furnished & candlelit apartment in the tenderloin. poets took turns standing on an overturned wine box, reciting their wares. eliyahu, someone i met at omega (his venus is in leo), brought his upright bass and plucked along to the long long long beat poetry and megs and i looked at each other and opened our mouths wide with surprise: where are we, is this happening? are we in san francisco?

i've ridden the days through waves of encouragement and discouragement, bursts of energy, an ever growing to do list. deadlines come and go. i've been faxing, calling, scurrying, grinning, shaking hands all over town, at job interviews and landlord interviews. it's tiring, and i think as a group our plans have changed as of tonight.

nathan called to say that his soul is here with us even though his body is alone in the cold autumn forest of omega. soon he'll move toward us. and today we rode the carousel, and then we got very cranky because we forgot to eat all day. and eve is in boulder, om'ing at regular intervals. and hanuman the gemini arrives on the plane friday night, and a new omegan is here, barrie, staying on the couch for a few days.

and we've been making food, pots of vegetables, strawberry cobbler, chocolate chip sandwiches. nice people come over and then leave again. we look for jobs and try not to get too freaked out about the general pandemonium in the job market.

yoko sits in a box in front of the heater.