Day 300 of 2026
“Counting Chairs at the Center of the Blur”
HIRE INVENTORY, TRESTLE ROOM
212 gilt chairs counted (phone in left ear)
211 gilt chairs counted (phone in left ear)
212. Someone is sitting on one.
1 loading shutter, up at 6:10, down at 23:50
40 cases glassware, 3 already singing
1 coat-check, 0 coats, then all of them
1 VIP, steered by the elbow
Unaccounted for: the students, who passed through like weather.
Still moving at the end: one man, one clipboard, one chair too many.