Wednesday, 22 August 2007
@ 6.50 pm
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One thing I've been noticing lately, is that if you're going past an incredibly familiar place or road or building, if you look at said place or road or building at a slightly different angle, in a slightly different way, it suddenly ceases to be incredibly familiar, and you can almost capture that feeling you get when you visit somewhere new and see that place for the first time with fresh eyes. I most often get it when I look out of the side window while driving across an intersection, as if looking down a street while you're moving perpendicular to it somehow makes it a totally different place to the one you might have turned down otherwise.
Sometimes the feeling strikes me so hard it takes my breath away, and all of a sudden Christchurch isn't quite so staid and boring as sometimes I fear it is. Maybe it's because spring appears to be fast approaching? Perhaps.
Either way, it's a good thing, as I've just said goodbye to my Mum, who's off to (I believe - I'd check the itinerary, but really, it won't diminish the "Wow, cool!" impact) Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Easter Islands for a seven week, take lots of photographs trip. Her camera bag probably weighs more than her pack - the amount of backup batteries, films, cameras, and all the rest of it she decided she needed to take to make sure nothing went wrong once she'd trekked up to Machu Picchu is really quite formidable. What's more, in a strange twist of Christchurch fate, it turns out that one of her camera-companions is the mother of one of the other guys in the MBA programme. Two degrees, indeed.
So, Mum's in South America for seven weeks, Dad's just completed 10 weeks in the USA, notching up 25 national parks in that time, and is off to the UK and Europe for another six. Juliet's in Melbourne, but that's more living than travelling I guess, Dad's partner Liz has just headed to Indonesia for a month. Not only is all of this travel simply underlining that I'm ultra sick of my computer screen, I get the feeling that someone, somewhere, is spending my inheritance.
But, speaking of the computer screen. It's actually holidays now, lectures have finished, and for a whole two week (barring one 1,500 essay to go) we technically don't have to be in at school. So what do I do? Sign up for a strategy competition on Monday. Cos I can't get enough of strategy. Jedi dumbarse.
The term was a hard one. That's my excuse for not posting in almost two months. For those of you who have been through the hell of the end of an Honours year, imagine it happening three times in one year, but with more work due each time. That pretty much sums it up.
This clip's a little out of date in terms of what I'm listening to at the moment, but I thought I'd better post it, as it represents my conversion to Death Cab For Cutie almost fanboy. Enjoy!
