Thursday, December 15, 2011
An Offbeat Year
I was looking over this year’s posts and I can’t believe
2011 is almost over. It’s been an offbeat year for me and I’ve been in a funk
throughout most of it. On a number of occasions, I’ve sat down and tried to put
my feelings into words, but after getting a paragraph or two down, I would select
all of the text and delete it. I couldn’t help but think that if I posted these
thoughts on the blog, I would sound like one of those despairing individuals on
Facebook. You know the kind of person I’m referring to, we all have at least
one in our FB Friend List, the person who posts incessantly about every misfortune
that happens in their life. That person you want to unfriend, but feel guilty
and don’t because you are convinced that unfriending them will simply be the
last thing that they can bear. In a nutshell, year three of living in Australia
has been like living in a makeshift Purgatory, wondering if the people I’ve
left behind still care enough to let me back into their lives after I return
and wondering if the people in my life now care enough to remain vested after
I’m gone – a bit woesome and dramatic to say the least. In the end, I know what’s
really been eating at me: it’s the move in 2012. Barring the start of WWIII,
natural disaster, or aliens landing (why do none of these sound improbable?) we
will be back in San Francisco sometime within the next eight months. As a
friend of mine here says, “It’s time to wrap this cunt up.”
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Sydney Independent Theatre Company
I took these images at the Sydney Independent Theatre Company (SITCO) at their opening world premiere of The Complete Package by Robert Allan. If you live in Sydney, I highly recommend checking them out. The production I attended was smart and superb and the venue is absolutely ideal for intimate theater. If you don't live in Sydney, but you are planning to visit, then I would suggest putting this destination at the top of your top 10 things to do while you are here.
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