12/3/08 - Michigan City, IN

8:30 AM - Wake up. I should be sleeping later but I just can't. I have a strange soreness in my stomach. I write it off to just pushing it too hard in PE class yesterday.

11:00 AM - Wander around the church looking for proper PE facilities. This particular church has a pre-school attached to it. As I am walking the halls looking around every corner for a gym in my hooded sweatshirt and my sweatpants - I realize that I am probably freaking some of the pre-school people out. I do find a gym though.

12:00 PM - Start the PE Class. Today's class has a much better attendance. We begin with some basic stretches and a couple of laps around the gym. I start feeling pretty bad - but once again convince myself that once I get warmed up I will feel better. We play some knockout then create a volleyball game called the "Circle of Volleys". I start feeling kind of light-headed and leave the gym for some water. I throw up in the bathroom. I go back into the gym and we start playing wiffleball. It was me, Dragon Sword, Chaos and Gaby Baby vs. Vitamin D, Rebel Jesus, Nueve and Styles. They were up to bat first. We finished the scoreless top of the inning with a fabulous double play. Our turn at bat ended with a homer by Chaos. I was on first and was trying to run the bases in front of Chaos. That was about the time that Dragon Sword called the game on account of the fact that I looked like I was about to puke again. I felt awful.

1:00 PM - I skip lunch and just go lay in my bunk.

3:30 PM - I wake up for sound check. Sure seems like everyone was having a lot of fun without me. I realize how lonely it is to be sick on a tour like this.

4:30 PM - I go to the hotel to take a shower with Dragon Sword. Let me re-phrase that. I go to the hotel with Dragon Sword to take a shower. I start writing a song in the shower called "Sick on the Bus". I frantically try to finish it in case I want to sing it in tonight's show.

6:00 PM - Dinner was a creamy rice dish with chicken fajita stuff. It was pretty yummy. I was glad to have some of my appetite back. Nobody wanted me to sit with them because they were afraid of getting sick. I ate in a corner by myself.

6:45 PM - Tried to finish the song before the first half of the concert. I was three lines short.

7:00 PM - Show time. I played New Pair of Eyes and Resurrection. I started feeling pretty awful during this part of the show. My body was aching and I had the fever chills. Excellent.

9:30 PM - Show is over. I pack up quickly and go straight to the bus to lay down. Not feeling too good. Ricky Gervais' stand up comedy special is on TV. I watch it in my bunk then go to sleep.