Sydney
IMG_2869, originally uploaded by shrieking.
Simon and Sina have left now, leaving me all alone in Sydney. I’m just starting to get my head around the fact that this place is my home now, for maybe 3 months, maybe 6, maybe 12, depending on how well it all goes. I’ve been sorting out things like a permanent mailing address and a tax file number and it’s all starting to seem very real indeed.
I like Sydney. It’s big, really big, and it’s got everything. It feels like somewhere I could live, which is a good job really. It’s got music scenes, it’s got stuff happening every day, bands play here: it feels right for me. My only worry is the work situation: I’ve spent a lot of money and, as yet, have not even looked for a job, but the bartending scene seems pretty saturated and I’m not entirely sure I’ll find work on that end of things. I’ll find something though: retail is big in the run-up to Christmas, so I’ll be fine, I’m sure. I plan to start househunting this week, which should be an entertaining (read: painful) experience. Real world stuff like this in a place so alien is such a contrast to everything I’ve been doing up until now, and I really like the change. I almost feel normal for once.
Last weekend we went to a party in the bush, with 10m visibility in the fog and plenty of rain. The rain did eventually clear up, thank god, and we danced until morning, when the sun came out and generally made everything look incredible. The psytrance community is wonderful here, everyone is so friendly. We had offers of lifts, messages from the organisers trying to help us get there, drinks and chairs and conversation in the rain from the girls running the cafe - the whole party helped us out because we quite clearly had no idea what was going on. Legends, the lot of them.
Last night hurt a lot, my brain aches, and I had to get up at 7am to see Sina off. Tonight will mark the end of my spending for a while, I hope. Probably until I get a job, then I guess it’s game on again. The Australian Summer is too good to miss.