Date: January 24, 2006

Author: tegansan

Hello from Kansas City.

Yesterday we were in St Louis and Kim and I went to the Gateway Arch…It was frightening. But worth the $10, for sure if you happen to be there sometime.

Someone wrote to our fan mail and suggested that my journal entries appear to be written by me under the influence. I assure you and that person that I take no part in drugs and never write under the influence. The other night in New York after the show at the Hammerstein Ballroom I played some of our new songs that we have recorded for an assortment of people that work for us and hang out with us. Everyone thought that I might be drunk because we don’t usually do that sort of thing, but no, I wasn’t.

This tour and this past 6 months has just left me feeling very open to sharing and enjoying the company that fills the space around me. The cake tour is going well. We like them very much. It is hard to get up and open all over again….to start from scratch. Though there appears to be some Tegan and Sara fans in the audience I do believe there are a lot of people who have no idea who we are…which is good.

We are all very thrilled to be heading to Australia in just a few weeks. Liisa our trusted tour manger is coming to sell our lovely merchandise. All the same faces onstage will be present and we think everyone will love the 2 opening bands we have chosen to support our tour. Though this is our last tour with Craig we have enjoyed working with him so much. We can’t wait to have him back for the next record.

We have a new guy out with us named RL. He is doing monitors and stage managing. I think you would all like him very much. He is very polite. Kim who some of you know as the myspace master is out with us selling merchandise. She said a lot of people have been asking for Emy. Poor emy. She is stuck in Canada, now a Conservative country. How sad. For all of us really.

Thank to everyone for all the emails around Christmas and over the holidays. It was our first Christmas without our gramma and that was sad. Having time off really allowed me to reflect on our epic year and this record.

Thanks to everyone. Truly.

Tegan