Friday and the Linda benefit must be in full swing at the Dukum up in the ville. I am home early as St. Louis Parties around me. My plan is to get up tomorrow and go to the parade with Brad and others. Dave Nowack was at work today. Dave has a business in Jefferson City – massage and other healing modalities. He’s a specialist in Cranio-Sacral and teaches it our center. I saw him personally once a month for over a year. I talked with him about Linda and as she stabilizes over the next few weeks, he is willing to see her if we are able to work out a window for that. He was very busy with clients today, but we arranged to email more about it later in the week. I was holding the back of my head as I told him the story, sympathetic gesture of protection.
Little details of the day…I took the left over Giradelli mixture from the fondue party to work, together with three cartons of stem-on strawberries for dipping. I set up a fondue pot at the front desk and it was strawberries & chocolate for all. Diane & Anne went overboard and had more than ten each. Emily, Deby, Ann and myself were a little more conservative; fun to do something nice at work like that – had a very Friday feel about it. The level three class finished the food off on their breaks. Anne suggested that Emily, Diane, and herself should marry me so I could cook for them – they would of course have boyfriends on the side (they just want me for the food). I suggested we move to Utah where that sort of thing is sanctioned. Diane said we could start Karl’s commune – but spell it with a K. Too much chocolate for the young women sent me back to my office – returning occasionally to stir and sterno as called for. The center smelt like rich chocolate brownies.
After work I picked up Angela and we went to my sister V’s to meet the new dog Silver – a Weimeroner puppy with deep blue eyes and the soft gray coat characteristic of the breed. We stopped off and got one of those roasted chickens from Dierberg’s, beer and salad fixings. I played video games with my nephew post dinner – very odd game on the PS2– the game play and visual style of Chrono Cross – roughly the same plot as well – except that all these classic Disney characters are thrown in with Japanese Anime so your large eyed Dragon-ball-Z haircut protagonist is fighting a boss along side Goofy, Donald, and Pluto – very fucked up concept – deeply creepy and insidious. “Someone got Disney in my Anime, hey, someone got Anime in my Disney” it was Michael Isner and these two tastes do not go great together. I also helped V with her computer. I get these updates on the murder trial via Google news – great feature – Google does a search once per day on your requested news item and sends the result to your email.
New developments in the murder case are as follows. The killer, is having his bond raised from 200,000 to 500,000 (or at least the DA has filed a request for that to happen) as he had a taped conversation from jail with his 14 year old girlfriend in which he suggested that they should commit suicide together, “so we can always be together” – I’ll just post one of the articles. So the 14 year old is living with His parents!?! And is now guilty herself of sending threatening statements via instant messenger from his home computer to the girl who turned him in– too fucking bizarre for comment really. I haven’t really digested this yet – but the cops were flabbergasted, “the inmates are told that we will be taping all of their conversations”. If there were a shadow of a doubt in my mind… V says that she sat behind this 14 year old in the hearing and watched him mouth “I love you” to her. Imagine yourself the fourteen-year-old girlfriend of a Ted Bundy esque eighteen-year-old psychopath. “Stand by your Man” plays in the background as the first real love of your life walks into the room in his orange jump suit. “I love you he mouths” and the first time you watched Natural Born Killers together is fresh in your minds eye – but it’s better now because you’re in the movie.