TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, October 23, 2004

9:00 AM
Posted by jodi rose

well, that was a dark and stormy moment.
today the sun is shining, the ball is rolling with new projects in helsinki, and my mum is visiting. so it's all good.
last night went to a concert by Mark Trevorrow at the City Recital Hall - a lovely cabaret evening - or jazzaret as mark said - and ran into people from varying strata of the past.
Got there early and had a moment sitting in Martin place, thinking about how far I've come from those one.tel days - yes, I'm not ashamed to admit the dodgy telecommunications co in my past - and there was Frederique at the show, fabulous as ever, back from stints at the offices in europe and searching for meaning in life..... we're going to workshop it over cocktails soon! Of course the delightful Sole drank champagne and looked after me, Ben away in Adelaide doing a gig for the night, Margaret and Bill and Dan and Monique all there.
Walking down Abercrombie St one afternoon this week, I heard a girl on her mobile saying "well, I live in the ghetto, you know'.
Thought HA! see, it really is a ghetto, and then - actually, it's not really that bad. A very gentrified ghetto this days.
Life isn't so bad really, need an attitude adjustment every so often. Also getting some work done, finally, makes a difference to state of mind - was just writing to-do lists and keeping up with emails for a while there, but seem to have broken through to a new level of productivity.
Wander along King St earlier in the week helped - ran into a family friend, Jeanne and had coffee at campos - I love that about Sydney, all these people just pop up here and there. Found a gorgeous book 'Lapland Journey' written in 1938 in that old-style adventure travel manner, that is assuaging my longing for Finland. For the time being, anyway.