Day 36,

This time around I managed to wake myself early enough to open up the archive before Cass arrived so as not to keep her waiting.  Or so I thought anyway.  When she walked in just a few minutes after I’d unlocked the door she made a comment about having figured I’d sleep in so she’d waited to leave.

Insufferable child.

Otherwise we spent today much as we did yesterday.  … And I just remembered that I forgot to go find Pat and ask him about replacing the archive’s lighting.  Eh, I’ll do it tomorrow.  I suspect there will be a lot of time just waiting around at the start/finish line while the race is in progress.

On that topic, it seems that Vernon spoke to the various outskirts dwellers who came into the Village proper for market day and recruited volunteers for race witnesses from them seeing as they’d already be out there.  Cass’s family was among them.  She wanted to stay in town and watch the start and finish, but helped soothe some of her protests by framing the acting as witness as part of her assisting me in recording the events and pointing out that the witnesses were going to need to come back into the Village anyway so that I can take down their testimony.  Since her family’s turnoff is on the first half of the circuit, there’s a good chance she’ll be able to get back to the Village and give me her family’s report before the race is over.

Oh, also Norman and Marva let me use their bathroom to wash after Cass left for the farm so I’ll be fresh for helping officiate tomorrow.  That was nice of them.  I tried to make a point of not using too much of their water seeing as we’re now well into the dry season and most of the Village’s plumbing runs on cisterns that fill during the rainy seasons.  Still, it always feels good to be clean.

Going to try to get to bed early tonight so I don’t oversleep tomorrow.  The race is scheduled to start in the morning.