TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

2:55 PM
Posted by jodi rose

how much do I love the german beauracrazy?
very very funny interview, the most fun I've had in an office in a long time. strange how the things you worry about most turn out to be the least important.

reflecting on the train afterwards that no-one really knows what tomorrow will bring, it's just that most people are happy to live with a set of assumptions about what is likely to happen. and cling to them in the event of anything unexpected but sometimes it's just better to let go. or completely ignore all the existing structures and invent new ones. so here I am, transnational and self-standing. lovely.

visited a gorgeous baroque garden in krezberg with james, had campari and soda then wandered through the bohemian village across karl-marx allee. real bohemian protestants who came there some hundred years ago, lovely old wooden houses and atmosphere.

had an evening drink with derek and his swedish computer music friend whose name I forgot - sorry - d.rock back from conference in riga, which seemed to involve a lot of beer and smoked salmon, talked about reality engineering and told me I was polymorphously perverse.

this morning met mari in the anchor cafe overlooking the canal, watched the swans and had vanillaquarke with obst, then whirled my way through an impenetrable maze of deutsch finanzamt forms, collected my stuff from the studio, lugged the box around berlin for a while and am about to repack and get on the bus.

'never leave home' one of mari's speculative new projects, I love it.
am going to participate remotely, from wherever home is.