TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, January 23, 2003

10:07 AM
Posted by jodi rose

Melbourne

It's a slow flat day, feel like I'm drifting away from whatever it was I was doing. Some art thing.... Decided I need a regular date with someone to discuss and plan and check-in with how work is going on the project (and life in general) it's all slipping away into vague fuzzy land.
Lots of small admin things to do, and bigger writing tasks like producing a thesis sometime - set up the document with chapter outlines, just need to fill them in now!
Going up to sydney for the weekend - I crave the ocean, walking on those cliffs, feeling the salt on my skin, something incredibly reinvigorating about it.
One day I will have my own house by the sea.
For now, it's concrete city in collingwood, no parks, no view from the window - oh yes it's all bad today! Very close to lots of good things, north fitzroy park, cycle to uni, and bunswick st and the city, and very decadent lifestlye with treats all the time, the lido deck to sit on out the back by the pool, chloe to keep me company.
Mum's here visiting, she's off exploring melbourne and doing a film course - the woman has enough energy for 3 people, even though she claims to have lost some of it. Of the two of us, she is by far the more adventurous. Hippy parents, I ask you, the grow up to do all kinds of crazy things!!!! It's fun having her to hang out with, lots of social activities planned.
I had an update from Matt on fashions in Mexico City - he says the hot look is white zinc on your nose, work with sk8er gear, although it can be subsituted for white gaffa tape if no zinc available. There you go, those crazy kids in mexico.
Any other fashion tips would be greatly appreciated.
Longing for those lush tailored parisian clothes I've always imagined, kind of 30's cabaret star, satin and silk, fitted with gorgeous colours and detail, draped elegantly and highlighting all the great curves of the female form. But for now it's more ill-fitting badly made not great fabric worn with t-shirts. When did life get so bland? How did I let this happen? I know there's a much more exciting glamourous life out there for me, just have to start living it. And how do you get to there from here?

Oh that's enough of this terminal dissatisfaction, I'm off now to DO something about it all!!!