Today was great. The weather was beautiful, there was a huge crowd, I took lots of photos, people loved the art cars. I didn't run the bubble machine at all because it was windy, which might have blown the bubbles back in onto those super expensive concept cars. Also the lot next to us was full of street rods, so it would have been bad if they blew outside too. I just couldn't deal with all that anxiety over some fricking soap bubbles so I left the machine off all day.
It was a bit of a bummer not to have my bubbles going, but instead I worked on beading. Which people seemed to really get a kick out of. It's kind of weird to be working on the car with a crowd of people watching over my shoulder (literally -- I was sitting just inside the chain so the spectators were right up behind me). But as Tim McNally said, once you get used to people staring at you while you drive, it's a short step to not noticing people staring at you while you work. Sometimes the spectators talked to me but more often they talked to each other as though I couldn't hear them.
On the way in Georg and I stopped at a supermarket ("Bloom," an upscale Food Lion) and got sandwich stuff for lunch. It was really nice to eat real food instead of horrible fair food. I could probably come up with lots more to say, but instead I'm going to chill and watch Carefree and then go to sleep. We have to check out of the hotel room before heading to the speedway tomorrow. Carly said that tomorrow morning will probably be a bit slow so we'll aim for getting there around 10:30. I wonder if they'll let me leave early? It's kind of a bummer that Georg and I have to drive home separately. Also a bummer is the realization that all the legendary barbecue joints in Lexington, which we have to drive right past, are closed on Sundays.
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