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DAY 7(Friday, 25 April 2014)A DAY AT THE COLISEUMIt has been a week today and Pope Francis remains as quiet as a church mouse. During this timemy weight has dropped to 84.5 Kg, which means I lost 8 kg. The time has come to up the ante.If I do not hear from the Vatican by the end of the day I will start making my presence feltthrough daily prayer sessions on St. Peter’s Square. I will wear striking white clothes to bevisible and to stand out in the thickest crowd so people will know my presence means more thanmeets the eye; that it is a form of protest in a language the Church understands, the language ofreligion.Hoping that I lost enough weight to fit in my angelic looking kurta pajama, which I purchased inIndia ten years ago, at a time when I practiced Ashtanga Yoga and was thin and fit, I get dressedand walk in front of the mirror. It is a little tight in the chest but otherwise it fits well. I breathea sigh of relief because I have nothing else to wear that would fit the occasion.Today we are meeting Tom Shaker at the Coliseum to continue filming the first segment of thedocumentary we resolved to shoot while here in Rome. Yesterday we shot the first scenes at thePiazza Navona after frantically drafting the necessary script.Tom volunteered to show us a good site for today’s shoot. Being completely unprepared forsuch an endeavor I spend an hour in the morning drafting the text for the scenes we intend toshoot once on location, just as I did yesterday. I decide to call this first video segment “Methodsof Depopulation”, since that is the most urgent information I want the public to know about. Itwill take us a few days to shoot, but what a treat it is to have the city of Rome as the backdrop!Tom is a riot and Nick and I have a chance to talk to him at an outdoor café and get to know eachother. His presence in Rome and familiarity with the city gives us both a bit of comfort. Shouldwe get into trouble, we have someone to turn to for help.The evening is dedicated to editing work and to getting the video footage to Sweden where it isbeing produced into short videos and eventually, if I ever have the money, into a full-lengthdocumentary. But first, Nick and I walk to the grocery store where he stocks up on beer, hispreferred beverage, and I stock up on water, my one and only sustenance until such time as mybody tells me it is time to augment my starvation diet with fruit juice.Nick, with a little long-distance help from Johannes, managed to fix all the technical problemsthat have plagues us thus far. As a result, we are extremely happy with the fruit of our laborstoday.37