Setsubun

I have a lot of writing to do over the next several days, so I may not put anything here until Thursday.

Busy weekend. Sunday, especially, with Ema's school festival in the morning, then the Setsubun demon-banishing at Sumiyoshi Shrine, dinner out with the whole family and finally Setsubun at home.

I wrote about Setsubun here two years ago, but I wasn't entirely fair. It can be a lot of fun, and so I was shocked last night to find that I've been fired from the job of demon. The father is really supposed to be the demon, but Ema said that I was "too scary" last year and consequently mommy would be wearing the mask this year. Fair? No, but on the upside I got to hurl beans at my wife, and I didn't hold anything back. Still, to be thoughtlessly dismissed at the last moment from a role you've really dug deep and prepared for, well no artist likes to be taken so lightly.

Friday night I went for curry with a group of friends and met a guy who's a pro-wrestler in his spare time. He tried to convince me that I ought to tag-team with another friend. We could style ourselves the Rumblejacks, and beat our opponents with axe handles. I'm not really interested, but maybe if I went for it and did well, Ema would let me have the demon mask back.

Maybe.