Friday
The hotel we’re staying at offers free airport cards and wireless internet service. Sounded good, so I installed the software, logged on and nothing happened. Uninstalled it and went back with dial-up Earthlink. Could connect, but couldn’t get pages to load. Big problem for communicating and blogging. Without going into all the graphic details, I sat on the phone with tech support for about 2 hours only for them to tell me to call Microsoft, or better yet, the manufacturer of our computer. Something is corrupt. Knowing better, I thanked them for nothing and we restored the computer to 2 days ago. About the only truly good thing XP offers.
Obviously, we’re back on line, but at 10:00 found ourselves canceling breakfast plans and an hour behind schedule. We decided to go with a boom mic as opposed to the lav to give Marilyn some freedom of movement. We swung by Victory and true to fashion, they accommodated us and let us return the lav later. The boom worked out great and I think we may go this route for the remaining interviews providing we have space for the c-stand.
About half way through the day, the sun came out in full force. Never wanted it to go away more. We blacked out the window, made a few adjustments and continued.
Today, Marilyn talked more in depth about her experiences and the repercussions of her abuse at the boarding school.
After all I’ve read and after so many interviews we’ve done, I am still in awe and amazement to the extensive and wide spread damages the abuse has caused. A very emotional day. We talked for about 4 hours and wrapped for the day. We have about 6 hours of tape of Marilyn.
Shawn got home and we all started discussing plans for our remaining time. Shawn is a licensed pilot and is excited that I’m excited to go up in a plane with him. There are some islands nearby that we can fly to for lunch and fly back in the same day. Planning on getting some cool aerial footage! I never expected this chance. Luci and I came back to the hotel and relaxed and grabbed a bite for dinner.
We interview Ralph Shellrude tomorrow, Marilyn’s father. Very much looking forward to it.