TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, January 16, 2006

11:27 AM
Posted by jodi rose

still pervaded by this mood of peace and calm.
woke up early after staying up until 2.30am booking flights for glasgow, bangkok and new zealand - all this travel is doing my head in. no wonder I'm enjoying being here so much at this particular moment. It's an incredible relief to see the same people every day and to be a regular somewhere. Even if they do laugh when I walk in. But that seems to be a universal effect, from Hanoi to Newtown and now Sturovo.

Walked down to the bridge at 8.30am, fleeting glimpse of nostalgia for the summer when I visit here and remember visiting the bridge every day. I love that it's still standing, it's the most satisfying job I've ever had too! Mostly I keep watch on the foundations - really not drawn to cross it that often. Recreating the past, or maybe it's my deep psychological need to be grouned somewhere. Not in between all the time. Followed my whim to go into the bufet cafe which always looks empty but has a secret back room, cosy blue and yellow walls, inevitably packed with men smoking and talking. Acclimatising to the local customs, took a presso kava with sugar and milk - strong macchiato in australian terms - real heartstarter.

Strolled through the pesia zona, came home and baked banana bread which is starting to smell fantastic. Think I'm suffering from an image problem. People seem to think I'm flighty, crazy, intimidating and elitist. When I'll confess, for years now I have been dreaming of a quiet stable life with a family to take care of, stay home with and be nourished by without feeling the need to listen to experimental sound art or see intellectual films. Maybe this isn't the way to go about it! But staying in one place never worked for me either.

Oh well, throwing my plans to the winds this year, the projects I thought were going to happen seems to be vanishing in the mist of 'market forces', leaving a gaping empty patch in my future. Which is a worry, as I'm pretty much unemployable for anything else now - have to get that highly paid art consultancy going.