MAR 19th: GOOD EGG

"I'm still in the office," I tell the Lady. There's a silence that echoes all the way from Philadelphia. It's the last straw, she must be thinking.

"Don't be silly," I tell her, "I'm in the line waiting to by my Amtrak ticket!" She tells me her family can;t wait but I can;t tell whether she can't either.... (cont.)

I hang 30 minutes in scruffy Penn Station. You can see where they tried to make the place a little more pleasant but it's still full of the types of people who like to hang out at the station: when waiting for a coffee the lady behind the counter asks the tiny guy beside me, "Small black?" "Fuck!" he replies, "Everywhere I motherfucking go..."

I get collected by The Lady and her father. They are both smiling. Everyone has to be poisitve for the New Year! In the suburbs of Philly we eat beautiful white fish with saffron rice and Cornish Chicken. One of the brothers is a little restless due to the volume of red wine he's consumed waiting for his dinner, waiting for me.

At 1.48am we dance and hug and put something sweet in our mouthes. The brother has a bit of a wrestle with his father and younger brother. They tell me about the egg trick: about 10 minutes either side of the equinox you can balance an egg on it's end. I doubt them but try, fail, try, fail, think 'this is just my luck', try - bloody hell it works:

Good Egg Trick By Guy Brighton

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Good signs for a good new year.

HAPPY PERSIAN NEW YEAR Y'ALL