Saturday, December 7 2002

2:04pm I wanted to keep a log at the art fair, just to remember all of the things that happen. I'm pretty hungover. The day has been pretty miserable so far. Lots of jerks in trenchcoats. Lots of passive art viewers. I've been staring at some girls legs across the way. I went into the other room, and they were playing Enigma, I almost expected to look up and see a peircing pagoda. Fuck.

2:09pm I just looked at Newberry's stuff. It's quite nice. The lady next to me is pretty annoying.

2:13pm There's a girl here who looks like my aunt Linda. Except that her hair is frosted.

2:56pm I just learned about 'self-catering' from some nice girl from England and her husband Max. Then I went to pee and heard somebody at the door. I was unable to flush the toilet and then it flushed a little and some water got on the seat. I didn't want somebody to think I peed on the seat so I tried to clean it with toilet paper and ended up dropping the roll into the bowl. So it was covered in pee water and I had to fish out out and throw it away, making more of a mess. And then when I got done, there was nobody in the hall. Which was nice. Jim just went to get some menus, because I think we're going to order sandwiches.

3:02pm Everything in the above entry is true, except for the roll falling into the toilet bowl. A lot of the people here are absolutely dull!

3:05pm If the lady next to me doesn't stop talking about birds, I'm going to cut her face up.

3:12pm There's a girl a few feet from me and I can see her underwear.

3:42pm If I don't sell some art soon, I'm gonna get really mad and break somebody else's art.

4:09pm I just had a pretty good conversation about German pornography. Now I just want to eat and go home to help Julia clean. Tonight we're going to go to Taryn & Sanford's wedding party, so I'd like to look nice. Where's the fucking food? Fuck!

4:49pm Jim and I were just talking about eating some lady's dog and then she came over. Jim said, "Your dog looks very delicious." I got a picture with it, I'm holding some plastic utensils. The lady told us we couldn't eat her dog because she would take it personally.

5:07pm Yawn o-rama. What the fuck. I want to go home.

5:30pm There is a group of people trying to hang an extension cord from the ceiling. And judging by the way they are going about it, they may be the stupidest people in the universe.

5:32pm Most of the people I have talked to today are completely detestable.

5:36pm Oh my god lady, shut up.

5:39pm My feet are absolutely freezing.

5:50pm Holy shit! I just spoke to the most stupid person in the entire world. I've had so many people ask me, "what are these?" And they're fucking ice cream cones!

"Lunch" by Jim Newberry