Being a true Asian and taking advantage of the free internet at the Samsung Centre in departures at Auckland Airport :)
June 2006 Archives
I've got butterflies in my stomach. Any kind of travel - let alone international - makes me jittery. Even catching a train makes me jumpy. Perhaps I have a condition or something. I check my passport and tickets about 176 times and my pack is loaded to the brim with far too many "just in case" things. But I'm rather excited about it all. I'm not very fond of the month of June. Not only does it feature The Shortest Day, but it is also right in the middle of the year and winter. So I am quite excited about escaping to the tropics.
The other day I saw a balding woman crying on the bus. I didn't know what to do. Today I saw a man with black stovepipe jeans and a bouffant hairdo. He looked flamboyant, though somewhat lonely.
My book for the plane this time is The Time Traveler's Wife. Also, a copy of Allure magazine because it is light and fluffy and will likely tell me how to get dewy skin.
I promise colourful updates if I get access to a zippy connection.
Au revoir for now!
Winter is great because I can wear gloves, and gloves are great because they protect my fingers from all the many little grossities I encounter on the simple walk home from work: door handles, pedestrian crossing buttons, ATM machines, elevator call buttons, and more door handles.
But with my gloves on, I am free to touch all these germy surfaces!
At a second-hand book sale I went to last weekend, everything was beautifully organised into categories like Cooking, Religion, Children, Science, Classics. They even had a section just for books published by Penguin.
Overheard:
Lad #1: They have a whole section on penguins?!
Lad #2: ...
Lad #1 appeared to be a native Palmerstonian perhaps enrolled in his first year as a drama or philosophy major at Victoria, suitably dressed to peruse the dusty classics on a rainy morning in purposefully beat-up Vans, brown satchel and dark-framed spectacles.
It was all very poetic. And now I'm off home to eat the donuts.
