So, a number of things happened. Molly had her audition, Starfish badly wanted to come along, but she insisted to go by herself. Apparently quite a number of people auditioned, and for a while she was waiting, but this week she found out she got the part and so she is officially now on a team of a stage production, where, as far as we understand, she will dance after all, I am not sure if also sing, perhaps. The play is at “Cafe Leben”, but Jan, the owner, is not the director, instead it is a guy called Vladimir; the play is apparently something very cutting edge and allegorical, but it is top secret, so I suppose we have to wait and see.

Chiaki has been moping around all week now since the fight with Starfish; whilst Starfish and Molly are still in Heaven Number Seven Chiaki hardly left her room, although if so then only with loud door slamming, causing everyone around to roll their eyes. I guess the issue for Chiaki is not that Starfish has moved over to Molly’s camp, but that he invests his savings instead of in his sex change in courting Molly with extravagant love tokens. To a person like Chiaki that is inconsequential and proves of lack of perspective on goals she takes quite seriously, which is highly frustrating for her, as everyone around her can hear now.
Eventually it was Larry who had a word with her, she needed some serious cheering up to do, and he’d know just the thing. What he did was having her jacket embroidered at “Victorian Expectations”, (same shop where Starfish had bought his fancy jacket, the one he sold now again). The shop has amazing stuff, jackets, walking sticks, accessories, or you can also bring your own stuff and have it done up there; it is out of this world expensive, although I wouldn’t regret it, if I could afford it, the only question, is, how Larry paid for Chiaki’s garment, but no matter how, this did the trick and now Chiaki is prancing around in her new cloak like the Queen of Sheba (which seems to make now Starfish a tiny bit insecure in return); I guess Larry understands certain things very well, and certain people.

Then it is ChoCho’s birthday today (on the same day as also French 19th century painter and model Suzanne Valadon, 23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938), and we arranged a picnic for him in the park, where is a huge pond with swans and boats; we got him a massive cream cake, “we” is an exaggeration, again Larry paid for the cake, and also for the wine we had, otherwise we would have probably all had to starve for a few weeks, because the only one with money in the hotel is ChoCho himself; but we all together chipped in for an antique ruffled midnight blue parasol as a birthday gift for ChoCho and he loves it.
Chiaki, by the way, did her best to sit in good eye-sight of Starfish and be as quirky and cheerful as can be, Starfish fell right for it and tried to be very pleasant. Larry at some point dropped a comment “You guys should better be friends”, and from then on they behaved, but there was noticeable suspense in the air around them. Molly doesn’t seem to worry about it at all, she was visibly exhilarated, celebrating her own success, trying her best to flirt with Larry, who seems pretty stoic about it (probably because deep down he is the shyest person I have ever met, when it comes to things like that), and showing off more unusual circus tricks, like balancing ChoCho’s parasol with her teeth.

Further, last night, before today’s picnic, ChoCho modelled for me nude for a series of pictures “lust & desire” I am sending to a competition titled “the body”. It was excellent working with a professional performer, ChoCho is unbelievably good at this, plus we had a long philosophical pre-birthday night talk about life and everything attached, but so far nobody has seen any of the shots, neither have I sent them off yet, because I have to work through them, being over 160 it will take time.

Instead, meanwhile, here some pics from today’s picnic:

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry and Molly” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Chiaki’s back and cake” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Molly near Larry” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Molly” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Molly and Larry” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry and Molly 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Chiaki and Starfish” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – cake, wine and cigarettes” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – cake, wine and cigarettes 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry and Molly 3 and picnic blanket” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – mindnight blue ruffled parasol” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Chiaki and ChoCho” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – cake, Molly’s bag and cigarettes” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Chiaki in her new jacket” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho with cake 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake 4” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake 5” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake 6” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake 7” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake 8” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake 9” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry eating cake 10” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Molly eating cake” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Molly eating cake 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Starfish eating cake” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Chiaki eating cake” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho with cake and Chiaki’s new jacket” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Starfish and Chiaki” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho in the grass” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho with blue parasol” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho with blue parasol 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho’s head and Starfish” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Chiaki, ChoCho and Starfish” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Molly eating cake 3” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry with Molly balancing a parasol with her teeth” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry with Molly balancing a parasol with her teeth 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Larry and ChoCho with Molly balancing a parasol with her teeth 3” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – ChoCho, Starfish and Chiaki” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – birthday cake and Molly’s bag” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – birthday cake and Molly’s bag 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “ChoCho’s birthday picnic – Starfish” (2016)