Backed Up

Thursday morning June 17th

I'm totally behind in updating my dear old Blog. In a few sentences: I've gone to the aquarium, and to the beaches here in Sydney. Been taking care of sick Anna and watching Firefly. Walking up and down Glebe, to the water and to the Broadway. Went to Trivia night and answered all the nerd questions...

It's my last full day here, supposed to go to the zoo, but it's drizzling of course. I leave tomorrow night, and I really don't want to. My departure suddenly snuck up on me. It's not that I'm completely in love with Sydney, I mean yes it's a great city, it could be a home to me. But I feel I need more time away from LA, or maybe it's just a real sign that I need to get out of there, which I've always known. There are only a couple things to look forward to upon my return, but I think a fire has been lit that might be stronger than anything I have planned. I want to keep moving. But everything is so up in the air, I'm still hollowed out and the new things that get blown in to fill me up, seem to get blown out again rather easily. I have no idea what I'll feel like when I get home.

For now I'll think about Australia:

-Aquarium. It is located in Darling Harbor at the Cockle Bay end. This little inlet reminded me so much of Long Beach that I thought I was in California for a minute. I’m boycotting the platypus. I travel 7000 miles to finally see one, to prove they aren’t just made up, and the damn thing was in its burrow. Apparently they spend most of their time in their burrows. Either way I’m convinced they still don’t exist. However I did get to see a Dugong! The south pacific’s version of the manatee. And I have to say they really are like giant cows. They look stupid they just float there after eating some lettuce and stare off into space. I mean this may be because they’re in a tank, and there is nothing else to do, but maybe it’s because they really are just that stupid and don’t really have much else to think about but digesting lettuce. Other than that they have a bunch of Australian fresh water fish, and fresh water fish kind of give me the creeps. Anna and I agree we like the coral tanks, where all the fish are sparkly and colorful and just plain pretty. It was really cool to see fish from another hemisphere!

-Fanny = vagina. Just like in Britain. So when you receive one after winning at Trivia contest say, Bum Bag...not Fanny pack. The nerd question that helped my team win last night, was something having to do with Star Wars. Either it was what were the two squadrons called that were the result of the Red Squadron breaking up after the Death Star was destroyed by Luke? I said Renegade was one, and I have no idea why the heck that suddenly hit me. But the other one was Rogue...either way I was proud of my nerdness!

-Cabbies. I swear Anna and I have the most intimate conversations in Sydney cabs. I'm pretty sure every cab driver knows something 'private' (although I'm like the least private person I know) about me. If they all got together they could write a book about me.

-If I have to hear one more vuvuzela comment, OMG...

-Dogs. I swear I have yet to see an unhappy or obnoxious dog in Sydney. They all look soooo giddy. In fact, although Anna does not agree, I think 80% of dogs are Dalmations. Or maybe I keep seeing the same 3 Dalmations.

-Beaches. We did the 6 Kilometer walk from Bondi to Coogee Beaches along the coast. Super beautiful of course, describing it is sort of useless, somethings you just have to see. I got a sense of what the summer would be like here, crowded, hot and sticky. But the water is clear and aquamarine. I think the trippy part for me was watching the sun set over land, rather than sea. It just feels so wrong! The sun should only dip in to the sea. And the Pacific Ocean should not be to the east of me, it should always be to the west. It boggles my spatial mind.

Anyway...there a certainty in my mind that I have to come back. But I said that about Humboldt, I must go back. Now I can, and will, there is no more mental block stopping me from those things. I'm excited!

PS Trueblood… Sam and Bill almost make out dream scene, pretty damn hot.