Arrivals, Kitchen / House Prep

Monday, April 10 2006
Lunlunta, Argentina
09:00

Looks to be another gorgeous dsunny day. Sitting at 7:30 this morning, 30 minutes, went by quickly. Breakfast: very dry "granola" (mueslix actually), w/ vanilla yogurt (yellow), fresh apple slices, coffee (very strong coffee here), crackers w/ quince jam (good). Quick shower after that. Though there would be no hot water, then it showed up. Drain in the shower barely works. Not sure what's in store for today yet (besides doing dinner).

13:48
Lunch: cabbage / cauliflower / rice. Surprisingly good. Ignacio F. loaned me his guitar for the day. Pretty nice, old strings though. Put new ones on mine too. His looks / plays "Igor-ized", nice low action at the nut but not too low higher up (actually a bit high).

Twice this morning, a car / truck drove by w/ some repeated message blaring. Couldn't tell what it was saying. "Vote for Pedro"? Mid-60s again today. Very nice. Two hours until dinner prep. Not sure how I'll spend it.

21:30
Done with dinner. Ran long as some arrivals at 8:30 needed to be fed. Pasta (tubes) w/ tomato+onion sauce. Pasta overcooked (impractical to shock 12 bags worth) and then crushed under it's own weight. Lettuce salad with lemon vinaigrette. The lettuce was nasty, many bugs (before prep, of course). 60? people served. Team: Alain C, Sylvain (chief cook), Jorge Salinas, Haruko, me.

Schedule has me on coffee tomorrow. W/ 4 others, including BR and Pablo. Long silence at dinner. I was very resistant. Wanted to eat. There's a mob of guitarists in my room currently.

Wondering what the property next door is. Two very large fountains, what looks kind of like a Buddhist temple. Cactus. (haha, turned out to be a grappa distillery).