Friday, May 26, 2006too early for crowdsThis morning I was out of my place at the usual 6:10 am, wandered down the hill, checked my post office box for mail, bought my morning paper and wandered down to the beach bus stop to catch my usual semi-empty bus for a leisurely trip into work. BUT this morning there was a great flood of people... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, May 25, 2006REFLECT OR DROWN IN THE UNCONSCIOUS BLAH OF YOUR EXISTENCE Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, May 24, 2006burn the bastard files nowLast night there were more vivid dreams though I didn't manage to record them so they've faded now. The only thing I remember is flying past and around a skydiver. I'd like to think that the particularly vivid quality of my dreams is a prelude to some kind of substantial change in my life, a... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, May 23, 2006dreaming of americaLast night I dreamed I was driving through America. There was a feeling of freedom and adventure in the dream. I seemed to be providing a kind of commentary as I traveled along. It was as though I was filming a documentary. I stopped in an unusual town. There seemed to be a strange combination of... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, May 20, 2006sunday afternoon and the sun still shinesI'm moving into that beautiful but somewhat melancholic period of a Sunday afternoon. The sky is still bright but within the next half hour the sun will begin to sink somewhere beyond the nearby hill and the never ending suburbs. Ahead of me is another day in the job. I've been sleeping restlessly... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, May 18, 2006job interviews / reality TV auditionsThis afternoon I had an employment assessment session for a recruitment job. I fogot what interview processes were like outside the stayed and steady walls of the public service where you apply for a job and then possibly get a single interview involving being asked predictable questions, giving... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, May 17, 2006but baby i never stopped loving youI looked up the price of a ticket to the boxing tonight. A thousand for a ringside ticket and five hundred to sit up in the back row seeing little more than a collision between two ants! A pox on that hogwash! So I am here, at home and I've just eaten lightly fried button mushrooms and tiny tomatoes... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, May 15, 2006locked outside the squareYesterday I locked myself out of my place. For four and a half years I had lived in a well wired habit that never allowed such a thing to happen. Of course I always thought that I should keep a key somewhere else just in case of such a lock out but I never got around to it. Yesterday it happened. As... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, May 12, 2006movement as a cause of revelationAs I walked through the Chinese Gardens in Darling Harbour, Sydney, I was struck by the way the architecture related to the environment. There was subtlety in the small frames that gave no more than a glimpse of the wide world beyond. This was not a design of maximum exposure but of small and subtle... Sign in to see full entry.changeMy boss finished up at work yesterday and commenced retirement. Even though I've been frustrated by my job, and the thought that I can do better, I still felt a certain sadness. In the midst of the grinding regularity of work there is a certain consolation in the people you work with, the everday... Sign in to see full entry. |
