three dimensions
we got cable internet today. i heart it very much.
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one of my mum�s friends died last night in a car accident. this woman was riddled with bad health luck the whole time i knew her. her son died from aids. her husband had cancer, umm whatsitsname ?? the same one that delta goodrem has. her daughter, who was a really good softball player, was riding her bike along a road you�d be familiar with if you lived in tha town about two months out from the selection trials for the australian softball team for the sydney olympics. she would�ve made the team too, except that day that she was riding her bike down the street, a car hit her and left her with really bad back injuries.
despite all this, she was one of the nicest people you would ever have the pleasure of meeting. nothing was too much trouble for her if it meant helping someone out. i remember she took me and her daughters to a state of origin match one year. it pissed down the whole night and i think new south wales lost, but i had the best time because of the company i was in.
two years or so ago, she moved up to queensland to sort of semi retire. my last memory of her came at christmas. mum and i were driving somewhere and i was reading out a letter she had included with the christmas card she had sent us. mum commented about how happy she seemed as i read out how she had been whale watching at hervey bay and about the house her and her husband were building.
and then last night, she was out driving and a 4wd [suv] clipped her car and sent it into the path of an oncoming semi trailer. they say she was killed instantly. her struggle with this life is over now. but i can�t help thinking how poorer we are for having lost someone so kind, bright and helpful. may her eternal rest be happy and without the pain she suffered on this mortal coil.
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i�ve been thinking about something i said in an email to the very rad gonzokid. oh how i ache to be reckless and beautiful and free. i can almost feel the hedonistic lifestyle i so crave every time i listen to the rentals� matt sharp�s brilliant seven more minutes. i need to get out of this city. i need to see somewhere i�ve never been before.
and i talk. every day of the places i will go when i travel. start in germany and snake my way through the east. through the baltic states i romanticise so much and then catch that ferry from tallinn to helsinki. all this talk. and all of this reading travel books, atlases and lonely planet guides has given me cabin fever.
i just feel like i am tied down to being a consumer. disposable generation
30/03/2004 01:25