August 6: How Have They Been Cleaning?

Sunday, August 6, 2006

​I worked 6:30 - 2:30. I served the staff breakfast alone. It worked out well. After we cleaned up from the guest breakfast, I helped with housekeeping. All the guests left this morning and new ones are coming today. Check-in is after 4:00. We have a family of 6 and one of 5 coming together. I know we’ll have more guests this week, but I’m not sure when they’re arriving.

I practiced flute for an hour today, taking advantage of the absence of all the girls. I’m abominably out of condition.

I cleaned our room as best as I could. I need to buy some cleaning supplies.

I had an hour nap. I am not tired. Sitting here, though, I could go motionless on the doorstep, absorbing sun and wind and not thinking of anything and somehow thinking more deeply than with conscious thought.

Lovers of much activity and excitement would, I think, have trouble here. Sure, work is work and it can be slow or busy, routine or interesting, as the day comes. Afterwards, though, one is left to one’s own devices, and the pace is slower than anywhere else I’ve been before.

Lots of flies here, all of different sizes.