TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

11:19 PM
Posted by jodi rose

ok, this is getting ridiculous, I now have the keys to not one, not two, not three, but FOUR bicycles. just acquired Hugo's fabulous red dutch bike for 30 euro, and I'm not giving that one up, it's a keeper. Govinda's black and red mountain bike will have to go back to Katie once her knee heals, and the pink one I left in Ines and Ed's back yard in Bos en Lommer until I return to Holland. The fourth is only half mine and is a lovely purple waiting on the magic driveway at sloterdijk.

so even though I'm from some perspectives you could now say I was homeless, destitute and unemployed at least I have transport!! And from another angle life is filled with abundance and possibility.

and hey, life is art it life is art is life... or so they say.

gorgeous evening by the spree, chatting with james and florian and ben about 19th century portraiture, architecture and bridges (funny that)
with promises of introductions to some excellent bridge architects.

today was dealing with beauracrazy in it's absence - the place I need to go is closed on wednesdays and still have many forms to fill out and letters to translate. It can either take a day or a month, depending on who you talk to. At least that gives me some leeway in the eternally evolving life-plan. People keep asking: 'how long are you staying?'
It's one of those existential questions really. I know how long I would LIKE to stay, and where, but somehow this is not up to me. The ultra-zen state slipped for a while today into maelstrom of art chaos but seems to have returned now.

Professional life is catching up with me too - concerts and features and profiles galore. Very insane time juggling all these different realities.

Time to go see Jasmine DJ and let the world take care of itself.