Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

Let me tell you all the things I have to do at the moment (and planned to get through some of them yesterday, taking advantage of the lovely public holiday) and then I’ll tell you how much I’ve actually done, and how I spent my public holiday.

To Do:

• Hassle STA about my tickets and International Student Card. I’ve been assured twice that it will take 3 days to get the card (after I went back once and they realized they hadn’t sent the application and sent it off) and tomorrow will be 3 weeks and no card. I am getting shitty now.
• Construct my teaching portfolio
• Start packing
• Order food for my party next weekend
• Make dinner reservations for tomorrow
• Dye my hair
• Organize one of those OS pre-paid Visa card things
• Buy a new purse

What I did yesterday:

• Counted a big container of change I had in my office – $73 of free money! Wooo!
• Bought a hair dye
• Went to Tex’s and got drunnnnnnk with her and her gf, Susie Q and Jac. We also had a campfire and hooped. It was fantastic.

As I was hooping last night, in the dark and in the rainforest that is Tex’s back yard, everything suddenly made sense. It sounds so wanky and I don’t blame you for wanting to glass me for talking about it. I was hooping it up and was watching the ground (to make sure I didn’t trip over any of the gnarled tree roots or rocks and shit that were all over the place) and everything inside the hoop was looking normal and everything outside of it was blurry and spinning around. It was just like proof that as long as you’ve got your own shit sorted then it doesn’t even matter if everything else is spinning around crazily around you, just so long as you who how you are and what you are doing.

I had a crazy amount to drink at this point, I wasn’t pouring my own drinks so I have no idea how much alcohol was in them, but I do remember tipping over while I was hooping and ending up on all fours with my head resting on the ground (which was dirt, dead leaves, rocks and tree roots) because everything was spinning too much to do anything else. It wasn’t even a fall, it was kind of like a slow mo’ journey to the ground. It felt quite fluid and artistic as I was doing it, but to the untrained eye I’m sure it looked more like a trashed chick dropping on all fours and headbutting the ground. I’m classy like that.

The campfire was awesome! I love fire, and last night was fucking cold so it was nice for the warmth factor as well….let’s just overlook the small matter of the legality of having a backyard fire. Tex and her gf live quite close to the CBD but their house is in one of the most hilly, overgrown areas of Brisbane, it was the perfect place to get all sorts of dried leaves and sticks and stuff to make the fire. Tex’s gf is the master fire starter, she did such a good job! I could never make a fire like this one!

I think by clearing the air with Tex it has made things better. I had an awesome time last night and there was no mixed messages or anything like that, it was just easy and fun. Yay for shitty things making stuff better in the long run.

Right now I am going to go out and try and get some of this stuff done. I’m aiming to sort out the ticket/IS card, new purse and pre-paid Visa today. I’ll report back later – if not for any other reason than to shame myself for not doing the stuff that I want to get done today.

** EDIT: Ok, let’s review what I’ve done so far:

• Packed some – not all obvs but the stuff I could pack at this stage
• Bought a new purse – only $35, thank you Myer Gods
• Sorted out my flight junk and finally got my IS card
• Booked tomorrow night’s dinner plans
• Dyed my hair (not technically yet, but I’m going to do it tonight)

Not a bad effort, I say. I also managed to squeeze in a bit of a lie down on the couch as well as Hungries for lunch, pre-lie down, to get my tummy to settle down. I still feel quite fragile. Don’t get old kids, it sucks, I used to be able to write myself off and wake up bright and early the next morning with a spring in my step and a sparkle in my eye and now it’s more like watching an angry, deranged yeti crawl out of a dark cave…and I remain that way for most of the day. Not pretty.

Yeeeughhh. I am going to make bean burritos for dinner…yes, I know it’s only 5pm, don’t judge me!!