TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, November 04, 2002

2:43 PM
Posted by jodi rose

room 303 SCA, Melbourne
Oh yes really hitting the ground now. Life was so glamorous for a minute there. Coming down from the high of arriving home to find that I'm still exactly the same person, no less zaftig (well marginally but not enough to really start registering on the social acceptability scale), dramatically financially challenged, with a heap of work to do for the project, finding paid work, and facing the logistics of collecting all my stuff back from its various resting places in sheds and under beds all over melbourne with no car and no drivers license. Being back at home now it's a little frustrating not having my own bed set up, and all those boxes, can't even remember what's in most of them but no doubt can't live without any of it another day! Decided that I really need the gold peugot 504 for sale at the end of my street, well maybe it will motivate me to get that license.
Point Lonsdale was gorgeous, life is so simple in the country, wake up, go for a walk on the beach, come back, read or write for a while, make lunch, maybe another walk to watch the ships passing out through the heads to Bass Strait, on the last night even saw the lighthouse start-up - very exciting. return to melbourne and full social whirl again, saturday heard jon rose concert in his 'bowing fences' (www.jonroseweb.com) exhibition at vic arts centre, he's been playing fence wires for 20 years now - imagine a concert with the bridges, fences and alan lamb who plays telegraph wires. Must be something in the water, that or the songlines dreaming, singing the landscape seeping through.
Saturday continued with day of the dead music at the melbourne festival closing night, hanging out in the warm evening on the steps with matt and sue and narra until texicali rose started playing - although matt said they took him straight back to mexico, it was too jangly for my still foggy head, so dropped in to Milla's birthday party in the laneway with richard and then home to bed.
Sunday rested up for "the crick" limited appearance one night only party at john and kims, featuring lots of old and new favourite people, delicious food, many mojitos, champagne and conversation, then reconvened at newotwn s.c this morning with rachel, maudie and crick for brunch and energising spirulina. Now a little dazed and dreamy still, but made it to uni for meeting with peter to discuss the next steps in my academic career. Excited about playing with the sound, writing and making collages - life is way too busy all of a sudden.