Emma Myers

            On Wednesday morning I woke up with a hangover even though I’d only had one can of beer at lunchtime and two at suppertime on my birthday the day before. 

            I worked on memorizing the ninth verse of “L'anguille (The Eel)” by Boris Vian and the fifth verse of “Il est Rigolo mon gigolo” (He’s a Giggle Oh My Gigolo) by Serge Gainsbourg. 

            I weighed 90.1 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since March 4. 

            Around midday I cleaned the splattered paint from the bathroom tiles above the toilet. I then screwed the newly blue painted wire rack into the wall just above the tiles. The right screw went securely into the wall but the left one didn’t really catch. The rack is fairly solidly attached to the wall nonetheless. It holds the yellow teapot containing my combs and my hair brush, the copper goblet containing my tooth cleaning instruments, and the identical goblet that holds my toothpastes. Before this I kept the rack on the back of the toilet and the goblets used to fall off, but now everything is secure and it looks nice. 

            I weighed 91.35 kilos before lunch. That’s the most I’ve pushed the scale in the early afternoon since March 2. I had a toasted Montreal style bagel with peanut butter and four -year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of lemonade. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 90.55 kilos at 18:15. Not as much as the evening of March 2 but up there. 

            I worked on getting caught up in my journal as I was a day behind. 

            I grilled four burgers made from New Zealand grass fed beef. I had one on a Montreal style bagel with ketchup, Dijon, horseradish, and two gherkins while watching the second episode of Wednesday with my daughter Astrid on Discord. 

            At the end of the first episode Rowan was about to kill Wednesday with his telekinetic powers when a monster attacked and ripped him to shreds. 

            At the beginning of the second episode Jericho’s sheriff and his men can’t find a trace of Rowan’s body (why does the sheriff of a town in New England have a southern US accent?) Later when Wednesday is telling the sheriff that someone is trying to cover up Rowan’s death, who walks in but Rowan? 

            Wednesday has Thing follow Rowan but he loses him because it turns out that Rowan is either a shape shifter or else a shape shifter is posing as Rowan. We also see him change into the principal of Nevermore and so one wonders if she’s the shapeshifter. 

            Wednesday sneaks into Xavier and Rowan’s room, and with the help of Thing, looks for the book in which Rowan’s mother drew the picture of Wednesday before she was born. While she is there she hears Xavier returning and Wednesday hides under the bed. The siren Bianca who is Xavier’s ex comes to visit. She speaks ill of Wednesday and says she doesn’t like her because she thinks she’s better than everybody else. 

            Wednesday’s extremely perky roommate Enid has asked Wednesday to be on her team for the annual no rules boat race and she’s refused. But now to defeat Bianca she agrees to become her co-pilot. Enid’s team wear cat costumes similar to that of Catwoman in the second Batman movie. Bianca has a student who is a merman hold the other boats back but Wednesday has rigged her team’s boat with a net that snares him. Later he frees himself but she has Thing jump in the water and knock him out with one punch. 

            There is a connection between Rowan’s book and the secret student Nightshades Society. It’s headquarters is a secret library that must be accessed by answering a riddle and she figures that the answer is snapping her fingers twice. There is a portrait of her parents below. It turns out that Edgar Allan Poe was Nevermore’s most famous student. 

            Enid is played by Emma Myers, who was home schooled and so she sought out a sense of community through theatre and dancing. She made her film debut in Letters to God in 2010 and her TV debut in The Glades in 2010. She co-starred in the film Family Switch, She stars in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, She won a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award for her performance in the Minecraft Movie. Astrid and I chatted for about an hour after watching the show. She’d like to get a corgi but is worried she wouldn’t be up to the responsibility. Plus she lives on the second floor and corgis aren’t good with stairs.