another day, another city to fly to in the morning though there’s a small hiccup and i have to hotfoot it to the other end of the airport then, after checking in, I spill coffee down my nice shirt and discover that the flight has been delayed but once we’re finally on board things start to look up. so after I finish plugging a few cables into a few boxes »
it was just a shirt but the first of many i’d buy from that particular label over the last eight years it had a certain minimal style and grace something their more recent products have lacked with their garish mish-mash of colors and shapes (though i did find one old-style shirt recenly – tellingly, i found it at their seconds store) so when we grabbed our six bags of old clothes »
on the way there we waited for take off as a small aircraft landing from the left touched down effortlessly with a small puff of smoke from beneath the wheels and we got moving a new office (for me) another unfamiliar setup another messy machine room to make sense of. hours later the job done we wait for take off as a small plane lands from the left life repeats itself »
I’ve been lost in a sea of old documents: – farewell cards both from grade 6 and my first job – old printouts like a list of samples from skinny puppy tracks and what film they came from it was one of the first things I found on the net somewhere in the early 90s – an old, old, diary with a 5 year gap in it – manuals for devices »
on the first working day of this home-loan lifestyle i hopped on the tram a line i used to take a couple of years ago and sat down in an empty seat opposite a girl all dressed up in red wool to ward off the cold she looked at me and smiled and i wondered about the last time anybody randomly smiled at me just like that later as i hopped off the tram »