Oh my head. Half the day is lost in a haze where I balance on the fringe of a migraine. Particular to the right eye, the usual remedy is to lie down and rest for some time. Instead of this, circumstances force me to be active all day, albeit in a half-real state. Finally recovered in the evening for a dinner with Pia at Lily and Kari-Hans’ place. It was great to really have some time and meet Lily, who was one of the participants in the Eight Dialogues project. Earlier in the day, I am first at the MediaBase lab and then a bus ride with Pia up to UIAH for lunch and an afternoon of presentations at Media Lab. I finally was able to hand-deliver a print to Philip — the one of he and his two kids in a grocery store in Helsinki that I took in 1995.
There were a number of interesting Media Lab projects presented. Now, the reason for the aching head was lack of sleep which in turn was directly related to attending a sumptuous dinner party at Johanna’s flat the evening before. Visa and Eva were there along with Johanna’s sister and four other friends. Mmmmmmmm. Starting out in her kitchen at 1900 and ending up nine hours later leaving a club after a couple hours of dancing … The full moon is always a good excuse for excess. It has been a long time since I was really dancing much at all, and although it was only a disco, not live, it was fun, well, because it was with friends! And these two Swedish gurls … hmmm, but that’s another story. Good thing Eva was chaperoning.