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Here we are in Riga with Misha. The show is pretty straight forward: Valse Fantasie, a little sweet choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, Solo for Two, or rather a small segment of the piece by Mats Ek featuring his wife, Ana Laguna, Years Later, a total redux of a piece we toured a couple of years ago and finally “Place” by Mats Ek.

The theate was renovated in about 1997. It is generally modern but has had a lot of wear. The backstage areas are rather unkempt and extremely dusty. We’ve been fighting a battle to keep the stage clean, one that will only be won after many days in the theater.

The production manager for the Opera is a very friendly woman named Dace. There was some doubt as to her gender until I got off the plane. Her english is excellent and she comes to New Y

Jane and I have been working about an hour each day on the house. It usually turns into an hour and a half or two hours. But today I have been moving at a snail’s pace due to the pea soup we’re living in today.

I was able to make a plan for a couple of new book cases for her little room. Jane would be totally happy to line all the walls of all the rooms with book cases. I keep telling her that not having too many books, or too many of anything is a much more reasonable way to live. She thinks I’m just being mean. Her parents are academics, classics professors, and they lave fewer books in their house than we have. there is not a book that we can throw away.

So I’m throw a bit of a bone to Jane by building her these small shelves. they won’t take up valuable living space but they might ecroach on the her work space a bit.

I haven’t workd as hard as I would have liked today. I have a very nice little to do program for the phone and it’s telling me exactly what I have to do. I just can’t seem to get on with it. I think I’ll dig through my email one more time. Maybe look at photos of naked women.