4.5.20

Up 7. Watched some junk online, got going at 8.
Breakfast, coffee. Made a batch of buckwheat (it’s been in a mason jar here forever) to hold me, carb-wise, for a couple days. Read 20 p. Poetic Closure.
Form notes, 10 R&B songs. City Jimmy, “Saturday Night Kisses” has the closest thing to an Earl Palmer 2-and-4 backbeat I’ve heard yet. This is 1949.
Exercise. Walk.
Worked 11-1. Drafted next graf, a few notes toward one after that - I know there’s stuff in other documents, should spent another hr. getting further ahead later.
Wasted an hr. (inc. lunch).
Read 50 p. quota of Poetic Closure by 3:30.
Some difficulty this afternoon - Bree’s lunch triggered my misophonia, and I couldn’t lie on the bed b/c the building’s kids, blameless but oblivious, play in the courtyard. Finally put on one side of Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Black, starting w/ a ragged “Stars & Stripes Forever” (nicely demonstrating the line from march form to Joplin).
Checked over another large delivery order w/ Bree - scheduled for 5/2!
Robertson, p. 100.
Picked out 3 of the more coherent LEAR poems for Wendy + Ted, read theirs.
Poetry videos, some email.
Very briefly touched the piano, trying to play “Bleeding Moon,” a Cole/Johnsons song on the Eubie Black record (not by ear - I have the music).
Zoom meeting w/ W + T, 8:30-10:30. Went well - I have to be careful about not talking too much.
Didn’t do much after that, although Bree and I looked up Toastmasters International.
Lights out before midnight.