2005: the birthday that was
So Dad calls up in the morning and I think I more or less deal with that in an adult manner. Not that I can remember on account of being half asleep - it’s just a feeling. Then I head over to Surry to meet up with James and Glen at the Strawberry Hills. It’s a lunchtime on a sunny Sunday morning and everything is peaceful in the city. James rocks up in his shorts and tells me about the virtues of watching cricket as I grimace at the big-screen TV and wonder. Then Glen brings me this little book called The Relevance of the Humanities which was the response of a bunch of Aussie academics to the impending HECS apocalypse in the 80s. Glen is also wearing shorts but it’s less of a thing with him. We have the famous Strawberry Hills lunch and chat on the veranda where the light is so bright that I almost fall of my seat. At some point Chris rings up and says Hi and I say I’m coming home for Christmas.
Late at night I can’t get to sleep because I feel like I haven’t done something. I decide that it must just be another feeling and go to sleep anyhow.
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off your seat.
yeah, shorts. I have trendy new-style pant shorts. so named because of the pant effect upon those checking out my shorts. i have been working on my legs. i think my legs are the best bit of my body. I used to have denim shorts. but they were a bit too undergraduate for her liking. if i still played ruggers i’d wear em.
it was a good day. i felt a bit drunk by the end of it. weird. then i saw little fish that evening. what a bunch of depressing not-what-i-want-to-see-that that movie is. what are their people in the world who simply don’t struggle enough in life and have to get their dosage of ’struggles’ from those who struggle more than the rest of us? what the fuck…
Comment by Glen — Monday October 24 2005 @ 7:07 pm
their? bastard! see!?!?!? struggles… spelling, phd…
heroin? pfffft…
Comment by Glen — Monday October 24 2005 @ 7:10 pm
Those beers haven’t really worn off, have they? ;)
Comment by Mark — Tuesday October 25 2005 @ 6:10 pm
James rocks up in his shorts…
My legs are notoriously sexy!
Comment by James — Wednesday October 26 2005 @ 8:11 pm
Pasty is in now? Come and get me, ladies!
Comment by Mark — Thursday October 27 2005 @ 1:51 am