First off some off topic stuff. My posting rate has gotten really bad, frequency wise that is, lately, at this point most of the people who I believe read this only know things about me that I write here in this blog so such people would have no idea why my posting has been so irregular, as such I'd like to say. So after finishing my trip back in April (what I'm still writing about because I'm so backlogged) I went forward with one of the many ideas for my longterm goals directions. I'm currently now taking Organic Chemistry, Biology, and Chemistry Lab, so a lot of my time has been taken up by that and other various things.
On another note I've been considering doing some blog branching, but if and when I do that it will be clear what is going on.
This time success, no problems boarding, what a relief I must say. In then I probably only lost half a day as my original flight had a huge lay over in China. In the terminal I met a Japanese man from Sendai, to this day I have no idea if they are okay, I hope they didn't make it hope before the tsunami. We just hung out in the terminal and then we each took our own flights. I sat next to an American couple, we went flying in our giant speeding beer can (we were flying King Fisher, same company as the beer). It was really well handled, actually one of the nicer flights I'd ever been on, Namastar to India. We were served food in nice little china trays, reminiscent of what air travel used to be even in America. I have to say though the Indian male passengers were horrible, they kept ringing the bell for more beer, even when it was just ordered a moment earlier, they were also truly harassing the stewardesses. One flight down, two more to go. At this point I can't remember the order, but I slept for about 5 hours in one airport and then got on another flight, finally arriving in Melbourne.
Well apparently I was looking like a sketchy fellow as I was forced into the super express extra scrutiny line, probably because I was as honest as possible about what I had with me. I found some of the questions and requests odd, they made me flip through my photos to show that there weren't any containing child pornography. But in then I ended getting through security faster than everyone else. Quick bus ride over to the city. It was early so I just hung out at the bus station and tried to snooze, but I got screamed at by security. I ended up getting in contact with Cathy's friends and we arranged to meet up after work. I locked up my bag and then wandered around the city. I got some coffee, some food and just some totally different energy.
First impressions of Melbourne, it is actually really quite lovely, the first fun aspect were the street cars, though I've been in other cities, but there was something different about it in Melbourne, the next fun thing I came across were the blue bike share bikes, oh yeah did I forget to mention, the city was damn clean, what an unbelievable contrast. I really just wandered, as I had so much time to kill. Melbourne has a pretty healthy coffee culture, I just took photos, thought, and ate, well I also had some coffee. The sites were quite nice to see, and so were the people, people watching is one of my favorite activities.
Well the day quickly rounded down, and when the work day ended up I met up with Ben and Jordan, and walked back to there place. We got some food, we talked about friends in Brooklyn, and then bed time, after the exceedingly necessary shower. It might have been a couch bed, but I slept amazingly well.
At this point for whatever reason much of australia is a bit of a blur, I think the next day was actually a mixture of laziness and being on the phone trying to work some stuff out, I then went and met up with Ben for a trivia night. All of Ben and Jordan's friends were really cool and trivia night was really fun, I don't think I helped too much, but in the end we won, which was the first time for their group, I guess I was a bit of good luck. I also had some 'Parm', which is what they say for chicken Parmesan. The funniest thing was just how huge the portion was, when I spoke with the Australians and pointed this out to them, they were all shocked that I would think such things as they had heard how large American portions are, this was one of my first moments of realization of just how similar Australians and Americans are.
The next day I used Melbourne's bike share system with a friend of my Brother's. I even managed to purchase a helmet from 7-11 for $5, this is a subsidized price due to Australia's helmet laws. First I did some people watching at their train station, which was quite nice, but all I ate was a chocolate bar, something similar to a snickers. This of course would bode poorly for riding around Melbourne for me, it certainly wasn't quite as exciting and death defying as my riding with Rosie was in Pondy. It really was a fun time and then me and Andrew started to just walk around Melbourne, and guess what Rosie found me... Then we got some drinks. What an odd and lovely day. Me and Rosie made plans to meet up the in two days which was lucky. That very night as I was getting ready to go to bed I checked my email and saw a message from my mother letting me know about the Japan tsunami, which was to be my next destination, couldn't do much that night.
Next day was essentially entirely based around getting ticket stuff handled, which wouldn't be finished handling until more than a month later. This was a terrible day, but the next was quite lovely, me and Rosie got some Brunch, went to the farmer's market and just walked around and Checked out Melbourne some more.
Wrapping things up a bit, bike borrowing around town, museum cruising and cool collective dining, riding street cars and feeling the world while wallowing in my own sadness of part of journey that would never be, but overly distracted by myself over those whom really were hurt. And some Kangaroo.
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Can I have your number?
Sure... Here you go
What do I do,
do I text her,
do I call her?
Someone tell me what to do
No one answers
It's all on me
Conventions are wise for conventional times
But hearts are fickel
Swells of emotion must be quelled
To hell with it all
Tap out a few letters
to say, "I want to see you"
"Me too" she says
What a relief to my soul
Who cares about anything else
Rushing out of lab,
A quick checking in
Seeing her, feeling my heart skip
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