Month: June 2005

morgue at large two

When I left NZ I did several months of glorious backpack wandering in Europe. Since then I’ve clocked up a good few trips, but nothing on that scale – well, now it’s back on the agenda.
August 17 I fly to Indianapolis, USA, for Gen Con (huuuge roleplaying game convention) where I will try not to spend my entire trip budget in the dealer’s hall.
November 16 I fly out of Caracas, Venezuala, to Edinburgh (arriving back here on the 17th).
In between: um, I have no idea. Stuff.
It’s gonna be great.
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And of course, on Dec 22 I fly out of Heathrow, back to Aotearoa, for keeps, for good, for real.

My Days Get A Soundtrack

For my birthday a while back, various lovely family members gave me a minidisc player walkman thingy. I am now, for the first time in my life, equipped for sound.
It’s kind of strange, really. I’m so used to having no sound when I’m out on the move but whatever’s bouncing through my head and the ambient whateverness around me. Now I suddenly have a soundtrack.
Also – it’s true what T told me, when you’re hooked up to your own soundmachine you notice other people hooked up the same. It’s like we’re all in the Freemasons or something.
Today I listened to Karen Hunter‘s ‘The Private Life of Clowns’ as I walked in the sunshine. That’s part of living in the future*, right there. Awesome.
I just hope I don’t walk in front of a bus or into a hole or something.
* just because you’ve all had walkmans since 1983 or whenever doesn’t make it any less future. Its a thematic sort of future I’m talking about. Don’t distract me with your petty ‘facts’ and ‘logic’.

I do have stuff to say

Honest. I’ve got all these cool things I could blog about.
But I’m trying to be disciplined. I want to tick off a few crucial things from my to do list before I get back into this blogging thing.
So here’s a generic ‘things I have done since not liking Revenge of the Sith’ post.
I saw King Kapisi, which was cool.
Ran a little roleplaying game thing, which was good and intriguing and I won’t get into it because it would be a long involved thing. But I haven’t scratched this itch for over a year so it was nice to do so. (Ran it with some awesome players who I have not run things for before, for extra bonus points.)
Came home far too late two school nights in a row.
There is an exciting rumour that I might be able to go to the Pixies.
Into the final chapter of Ron. Perturbed by the things I am doing in this final chapter. Can I possibly end a novel this way? What insane logic is at work here? (I’m doing them anyway.)
Er, that’s all.
Back to ‘work’.