02/02/2003 - "Payback�s a bitch."
by Stace

Essentially touring is a lot of hurry up and wait. You wait while you�re driving to the venues, you hurry up the rest of time to get everything done. I�ve found that show days usually mean a lot of dehydration, no meals and little sleep. For the past few weeks I�ve been getting into some very bad habits of only eating once a day and sleeping around 4 hours a night. Now with this flu going around it�s all finally caught up to me.

Yes folks. I�m now officially sick. Bring on the NyQuil, amen!

During the show tonight I had to come back to the bus to lay down so I missed Finger Eleven. :( The smoke was extremely thick and it was really bothering my already sore throat so I left Tanya in there. I did catch Seether and the crowd was going insane. I wouldn�t be surprised if they tore the place up during Finger Eleven.

In other exciting news, we got to go to a Laundromat today! A friend once got back from a long tour and told me how much he was looking forward to doing his laundry, and I told him he was a sick man. I now apologize to him as I understand how much bliss laundry can be. I now have a suitcase full of fresh smelling, nicely folded clean clothes.

There are four things I don�t think I�ll ever take for granted again:

1. Proper bathrooms
2. Showering daily
3. Clean clothes
4. Food not in a truck stop or including the words "on a stick"

It�s been a pretty uneventful day so far, with more of the same predicted for tomorrow ;-)

~Stace

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