So most of the day - read: all of it - was spent in preparation of this, my trip to Nashville. Music City, U.S.A. Home of the world’s only full-size replica of the Parthenon. Home of the honky tonk. Home of … some other stuff, probably.

Seriously: What the hell am I doing, with this going to Nahsville? It’s hot there. Moreso even than Chicago.

But on the upside, I do get to take photos under the pretense of ‘work,’ and have been instructed to ‘make them as artistic, as well-composed, as possible.’ So I have that going for me.

Quote of the day: ‘We in the country now, honey.’ That’s just the catchphrase for this Southern excursion. May god have mercy on my Yankee soul.