6 months (& counting)
27 November 2004, 17:42
Who’s Who at Southbank?
It’s hard to believe we’ve been back in Melbourne for 6 months. We have jobs. Good ones (The Bank may be despised by the general populace, but they sure as shit are a good employer). The friends we had before we left for Japan still know who we are and want to hang out with us. Summer has fired up, everyone has spurned hibernation and the streets are filled with festivity. Even the upstairs Bogans have settled down a bit (although maybe they’ve just beaten each other into quietude). The only thing missing is hanabi parties. Shit. Wrong country.
Of course, I don’t want to get too comfortable, ‘cos then I’ll get the wilderlust again, which is how Japan happened. But it sure is nice hanging out on Friday night at (in?) Southbank with a few friends, sinking sauvignon blancs at BearBrass and having an al fresco dinner overlooking the water. Today the word is on that a 35 degree scorcher is coming our way, and that is always cause for celebration - we’re going to catch some waves down at Torquay. Adios!
Southbank sunset
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23 November 2004, 16:41
Two ships...
20 November 2004, 19:15
Saw Ex-Boyfriend today. Turns out he works at The Bank. I was walking behind him in head office, so he didn’t see me but it’s inevitable that I’ll run into him one day. What do you say in those situations; “Uh….Hi. How are you?” If he had been an utter bastard when we were going out, then it would be OK to give him the brush off, but part of me will always be fond of him in a weird way, so it wouldn’t feel right pretending to ignore him. I guess we’ll probably just have a polite little chat and move on.
It’s a bit sad that someone you used to be quite close to can turn into such a distanced stranger. I think it’s pure luck that you ever find someone absolutely right for you. With Ex-Boyfriend I think it was a combination of indecision (his), shithouse timing, impatience (mine) and the fact that we worked together (yeah, things that go around, come around) that made us drift apart.
I met Husband about two weeks after Ex-Boyfriend and I finally put an end to the sorry on-again, off-again mess we were in. Husband and I could have been two ships passing in the night if I hadn’t been wearing a dress with serious thigh-high split up one side.
I could have a totally introspective moment now and ruminate about love and “good-o timingu” and all that shit, but in the end - I believe it’s pure luck that you end up with The Man (or Woman) and that you both believe in each other, have the same ideals, but are sufficiently different to make things interesting. You should never settle for anything less than magic. If it’s not meant to be, it won’t be.
Someone pass me Oprah’s latest, please….
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17 November 2004, 17:01
Pinku’s Pink Flower Swap is ON and I’m all in a dither. I am good to go, have my crafty things at the ready, have finished most of my flower pin, but I haven’t done anything crafty for a good four years. I am no knitter. I don’t know how to crochet. What if I have lost my craft? What if I’ve become simply cunning? What have I done????
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16 November 2004, 21:35
14% of U.S citizens can’t locate the U.S on a map. That’s 40 million people. In a first-world country. Am assuming a small proportion of that figure are babies, but even so…
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