Gwendoline Christie

            On Wednesday at 1:45 before bed I was finally caught up in my journal for the first time in eight days. 

            After yoga I finished revising my translation of “L'anguille (The Eel)” by Boris Vian. On Thursday I’ll search for the chords. 

            I uploaded “Il est Rigolo mon gigolo” (He’s a Giggle Oh My Gigolo) by Serge Gainsbourg to my Christian’s Translations blog and finished preparing it for publication. Tomorrow I’ll add the YouTube file, publish the song and then post my translation on Facebook. Then I’ll move on to the my next unfinished translation of a Gainsbourg song. 

            I weighed 89.3 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Martin during song practice and it went out of tune for every song. 

            Around midday I painted the first coat of “blue bliss” on the area directly around the second of four floral reliefs on the frame of my future bathroom mirror and half of the other two. On Friday I might have the first coat of blue finished. 

            I weighed 89.9 kilos before lunch. I had a toasted Montreal style bagel with peanut butter and four-year-old cheddar, plus a glass of lemonade. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Freshco to buy grapes. Since this was the last day they were on sale there weren’t many good ones left but I got five bags. They were heavily covered with insecticide so I’m going to have to give them a good washing.

            I weighed 89.4 kilos at 18:00, which is the lightest I’ve been in the evening since May 26. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 18:47. 

            I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity and extracted to my hard drive a recording session at Mike’s place of my song “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy”, “Me and Gravity”, “The Princess and the Pea Happy Song” and “Paranoiac Utopia”. This side of the tape has just me on vocals and guitar and Mike on drums and bass. The bass is only on “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy”. I’ll digitize side 2 tomorrow. It has Brian Haddon accompanying me on synthesizer.

            I made pizza on two halves of a Montreal style bagel with olive paste, half a burger on each bagel, and each topped with marinara, tomato pesto, and four-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager after meeting my daughter to watch episode 3 of Wednesday on Discord. 

            While exploring the basement headquarters of the Nightshade Society at Nevermore Academy, Wednesday is captured by that group and tied to a chair. They are all masked but Wednesday recognizes Bianca and Xavier’s voices. Xavier suggests they let her join but she declines. Bianca says to untie her but she reveals that she already untied herself five minutes ago. As she leaves she tells them they are amateurs who give kidnapping a bad name. A community outreach festival is held in Jericho to ease the tensions between the Normie community and the students of Nevermore. Everybody will be dressed in 17th Century period costumes to honour the Pilgrim founding father of the town of Jericho, Jericho Crackstone. It turns out that Jericho’s biggest source of income is the Nevermore Academy. Wednesday learns that the Pilgrim Meeting House in town is not the original one. She finds out the location in the woods of the ruin of the original and goes there with Thing. When she touches the door she has a vision of the witch trial of her ancestor Goody Addams (also played by Jenna Ortega). Goody is thrown into the meeting house where the other victims are imprisoned. Jericho sets fire to the building but Goody can’t save the others because they have been chained to the floor. They tell her she has to escape as she is the only hope for the future. Wednesday goes back to the fair and has Thing sabotage the unveiling of the statue of Jericho Crackstone. It is engulfed in flames and melts where it stands. The principal knows Wednesday is behind it but has no proof. Wednesday confronts her because she admits she knows what Crackstone did. She says she wants to heal the old wounds. Enid arranges a date with Ajax and thinks she’s been stood up but what happened is Ajax was temporarily turned to stone by a Gorgon. 

            Principal Larissa Weems is played by Gwendoline Christie, who worked as a fashion model before graduating from Drama Centre London in 2005. She appeared in a series of mostly nude photos called Bunny between 2002 and 2008. She made her film debut in the short film The Time Surgeon in 2007. She made her feature film debut in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus in 2009. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance as Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. She won an Emmy for her guest appearance on Severance. She played Lucifer in The Sandman series. She co-starred in the second season of Top of the Lake. She co-starred in Wizards versus Aliens, The Darkest Minds, Welcome to Marwen, Robin and the Hoods, and After His Death. She starred in Flux Gourmet, In Fabric, She played Captain Phsma the first female villain in the Star Wars franchise in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.