I’m sitting in a cafe called “gypsy” today on high street in westgarth after a day of calm after the storm of Christmas. That’s not to say it wasn’t a fun couple of days though.
My partner unfortunately caught a cold yesterday morning which probably says more about the stress if the time of year than anything else. Not only is Christmas in oz busy in all the usual ways that the time of year is, but it’s impossibly hard to sleep what with the overnight temperatures, exhaustingly hot days and humidity. This time of year is regularly monotonous in this way.

So, my partner went home this morning to rest, to sleep and really to stop. I got to do the same so perhaps the wisdom of the common cold, which forces us to slow down and look after ourselves so our immunity is built up again; to de-stress – affected us both.

Doesn’t mean I’d have preferred to spend the day with them though. But there will be other days, many more to come.

This soy chai rates a “passable but I wouldn’t kill zombies for it” and I expect it was made with powder.

Perhaps that’s what I can do when I get home: two projects I’ve had on the backburner for a while…

But for now there is chai, then a quest for envelopes and bluetack. I tried Northside plaza and k-mart earlier but found myself with the unnerving need to escape the depressive atmosphere. I dumped my coat hangers and bluetack after a fruitless search for the other items on my list and felt better for it. I’m not sure why but department stores create a feeling of claustrophobia in me, a need to get out, escape, as fast as my legs can carry me. They’re just so drab and soulless, and the kmart in question has a relentless feeling of ennui, a horror in the faces of staff and customers alike. I have never liked that store; like a dying man you never liked in the first place, the instinct is to be somewhere else even though you you’re expected do something to help, if not to just be there to comfort the soon to be dead.

The sun is out again and the chai is nearly gone. I will sign off now and hope you will return…