melbourne

approaching a large corner-turning moment wondering if i’m doing the right thing or if it will change me irrevocably. i worry too much about these things but what if…? »

a gentle readjustment of possibilities now that her exam is over it’s hard to throw oneself out the door more than was strictly necessary i’d become accustomed to the stay-at-home lifestyle getting extra work done in the evenings and random research has its occasional rewards but now knowing it’s not as necessary as it was a strange tiredness clouds my mind it’s hard to move and equally hard to stay put. »

“jesus owns melbourne” said the sticker on the fridge in another person’s home they’d thrown open the doors for half an hour who wants to buy? like so many others in this area we’d already seen the house was from another era green carpets brown slippers a musty smell and a quiet frailty maybe someone’ll shut the wire screen door after feeding the cat out back and turn the radio on low »

this day was meant to be downtime but when i return home after chasing errands it’s hard to avoid feeling exhausted by the intense anger sweeping across the net this week. »

walking through an old campus mostly unfamiliar but holding one or two memories in the falling darkness among the 70’s-era buildings the people look the same pretty young things clinging to the unspoken rules of fashion and the nerds with their middle-aged dress sense making their way somewhere out of here. a decade ago i worked somewhere just like this when the future was a highly unknown quantity for me »