TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, January 30, 2004

8:13 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Now I'm really sad about leaving melbourne. Sure, coming back in 6 months, but that's a reasonable length of time, and plenty can happen.
Just starting to feel at home here, enjoying cycling around Fitzroy, to the pool, gym and ici. Cycled up to uni today, dealing with the usual beaurocratic mayhem, trying to finalise leave of absence forms and my new supervisor hasn't materialised yet to sign anything, well he has but with no phone and no email contact it's hard to arrange. Cycled along the bike path from Carlton to Clifton Hill, I'm going to miss that bicycle friendly useful route, and now Emer's living right near Piedemonte's she's on my way home. (well, in a roundabout way but I need the extra 20 minutes exercise!) She cooked dinner tonight, Ari had his friend Isaac over, they were non-stop and very loud. Gonna miss the little man. And his mum. the clouds were amazing coming home this evening, hovering on the horizon all puffy and coloured with pink and orange sunset.
So there you go, wallow wallow wallow. Hired lots of videos to get me through the weekend, packing in front of the TV. Another friday night at home alone. Still in complete denial about the truck that's coming to take stuff away on monday, haven't reached that critical level of panic that usually gets me motivated. Wafting along, taking procrastination as an artform to new heights. Might as well try and sort through some of those boxes of bus tickets, old newspapers and lists, god knows I don't need to lug them around with me. I would love to just be transformed into one of those minimal people who don't collect stuff or hoard it. But then you read Mirka Mora on love and clutter and it all seems so necessary and gorgeous. Decided I have a truly bohemian approach to money - reading 'among the bohemians' last week, whereby one lives day to day, with no desire to work at a 'real job', always trusting that something or someone will come along to keep the wolf from the door, and then blowing any cash that does find it's way into one's pockets on 'ruinous fancies'. Although I think the Finland fancy is going to have to be bumped, it's just not very sensible to go all that way for a 4 day festival, much as I would love to. Then there's the extra weeks hanging out and travelling to make it worth while, and the fact that when overseas money all seems like monopoly currency and not real. I can guarantee I would get home in May with nothing to live on for the remainder of the ABC residency. And we can't have that. Maybe it is time to learn some responsible behaviour. It just seems so predictable. Did I mention that I'm in an exhibition in Helsinki in April? Pixelache DIY Electronic Media Festival, it sounds like a blast.
Lots of exciting things happening with the radio, I'm having a week in the studio in march, to learn stuff, and sitting in observing some other productions next week. Stay focused on the game, girl.