Okay, June 17th, 8 a.m. and I'm walking to work and it's been a long time since I've dictated one of these notes, but I need to get the ideas for the text and plates of the novel down before I get them. So the language of the story is going to be mixed with text, probably just a straightforward readable font, like just handwriting. But it's also going to be mixed with symbols from ancient Egypt and contemporary communication symbols and they'll be used sometimes in the middle of the sentence, the end in the beginning. So for example, if I was a young boy, I'll draw a picture for a young boy. So I got to practice that stuff, but anyway. So I think Alexander, a bibliotech, Alexander, now the chapter that wrote, as I convert it to a graphic story. I have to lead up to that. And that's what my first plate is about. It's about me, the scribe, and how I got here. And so basically I have a series of plates that explain that what led me to this story because I'm going to have to talk about what I do in my day job and all of the sudden and my health issues. I was working, although work is clearly not as hard for me as this for others, but don't be a rough. Being a father, being a father of two kids, getting married. I remember that conversation you had with Heidi on the couch. And that's a cue to it all. Only you could have recorded that. So let me backtrack up a little bit to talk about the story as a whole. It's one man's attempt to come to terms with the Egypt that he's lost that he was so longing to try and become a part of. But as an outsider, it's only the Egypt of the superficial. It's going, standing, clicking at the pyramids, eating pushery, swimming in the red sea. And sailing down the night. Eat pushery. And I'm going to sail down the Nile. Sit at the beach. It's a snorkel. I'm going to have to answer. Those are all good ones. Go to an oasis. It's like you just, yeah. It's like an oasis. So I'd be a good title, finding the oasis. So it's what you're looking for and you can't find it. And you think Egypt's a problem. And you think it's your parents that are from. And that's when at the end of the story, you realize you're almost there because you've fleshed all that out. And do you feel any better? Are you any better off? Well, you're kind of like a country today. Are you any better off? You could have continued on without all that. But you can't. So anyway. So yeah, each one of these is going to be a story about how I basically emphasize sympathy. You know? Constantly asking for sympathy. And so the parallel of the banks that Egypt don't have to be that debt. They can just be. And then yet. A short little window was into the events. And that'd be really cool to talk about my health and how I was in the hospital. And how I had books with me. Did I read? Did they say stuff like Alexandria Fortet, the house on Mango Street? Just like that. And then. So what about events in your childhood? Is it a hug for me? A soccer with your dad watching the Islamic Society develop the meetings, the building of the mosque. And then. We have to talk about the loss. Now that was how you first lost Egypt. Or that was how he first discovered that Egypt was this moving away. So. I love the island. I have to talk about. Going back there. And. I have to talk about. Some are camp what's it like to be. American. It doesn't fit in. So. Talk about how you were afraid to be an honest class. And so. And. How you. I tried to play sports so much to be cool. I never wanted to play. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was.