A New Week

Today i went off to work without my daily coffee because remy and lee's is not open on mondays and apparently that was a a real bad decision for me to skip out on that coffee because i could not focus what so ever... literally, I spent like the whole day writing two articles. As interesting as the fact that i had no attention span today, i more want to tell you about the little things that were good today.

1.Listening to the Newspring evangelism service: I finally downloaded the podcast and listened to it on the bus as i went to work. Well i completely didn't realize that i missed newspring church that much cause all of a sudden i am so into this podcast that i am laughing out loud at the weird jokes Perry Noble makes and i look like some crazy lady laughing in the streets of some suburb (kingsford). I couldn't stop listening to this podcast though, so from the bus to work and to the bus to my house i kept doing the "pretend like your not laughing but only coughing" the entire way.

2.We listen to the their public radio at Belinda's (work) and as i am writing i get sucked into this interview with Douglas Kirkland (who currently has a show going on in Brisbane) and let me tell you...I want to be able to have these crazy cool photography moments that he has had. They focused a lot on his pics of Marylin Monroe (the one with her only in a sheet) and the way he was just talking about the celebrities and the way his photos are...he just captures people. I want to capture people as a photographer. This pic, and the story he told about Judy Garland as an adult being sad and overworked just really showed the effort he took into getting the people inside the he worked with. I loved it.


3.I finally am feeling like i am slowly going past encouraging comparative conversations and I am so glad about that. Since i am obviously American that is an easy go to topic in a conversation with new folks (like the weather) and i didn't realize that i wanted to be over it, until tonight. i met my friend's housemates and watched x factor with them (by the way Natalie Imbrulia looks crazy good these days) and then they got talking about some drama that really doesn't concern me...but it was so nice to talk about normal stuff! It felt good not to compare tv shows, or music, or politics, or money, or culture, but just talk about normal 20 something year old stuff. I think it is the sign of good things to come.

Australian translation of the day:
Bogan (Bo-gin): a hillbilly