Monday, December 1, 2008

1st week of December, maybe second month? Week nine?

Hello folks.
Tom here, reporting from his room at the Jolly Swagman Hostel.
Will shortly be moving out, I think Friday is my last day. Have been on the phone to a company called Furnished Property, that's the one my friend from work went to, and am waiting for a reply. Only problem is that they would rather I went to see the property, but as I'm out of my hostel from 7.45 until 9.30, and they're not available on weekends, it's a bit tricky. I might plan on splitting myself into two, and then checking places out, but then it gets tricky being listened to. Nobody wants to talk to half a person, that would be crazy.
Work is better now. The people there are calming down, I'm pretty certain that was just a bad patch. Working twelve hour shifts and Saturday again this week. But on the plus, I got paid $1,192 AFTER TAX for last week's shift, so at least I'm getting a bit of spending money :P.
Last saturday, I told you about the morning but then I didn't report on the evenings events. I was invited to the rock club at around 10pm, but at seven we had a storm, haha. So I went out to the bay, and sat on the sea wall, and watched it. Not the best I've seen, but was nice to get out from work and feel the weather again.
It's now getting hot. Hot hot. Like, my arm was tanning on the busride to work this morning. So heaven knows what it'll be like at Christmas, or when I go travelling (which I probably will) in January. I need to see Ayer's Rock, the Reef and the bush. And I would like to climb the Blue Mountains, which are a train ride from the city. Not crappy tourist walks, but I'd like to branch off the path and just walk up to the top, to see the unusual routes.
I bought a journal today, a blank book. After writing all that stuff on this blog and then deleting it a few weeks ago, I've been having pensieve moments, and I've been thinking maybe if I can see what I'm thinking, and have an outlet, it might be helpful. So whenever I get down, instead of just sitting there bottling it up, or drinking from a bottle (rarely) I'll note down what I think. See how it goes.
Anyway friends, it's now 10.55pm, and I'm off to make banana bread, haha. Needs must, eh?

"I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world..."
(Quotation from "Into the Wild", by Jon Krakauer.)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

that quote says it all

Unknown said...

TOM! watch this, this is the most AMAZING thing i've seen all term! Let me know wot u think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj6t80f7TQ8&feature=related