Home-Awareness

It's not homesickness, but home-awareness, that fills my thoughts today.  For several days, in fact, I've had images and sounds and tastes coursing through my mind as I walk the streets of Hobart and play the music of it's occupants.  I don't yearn for Charleston, but I am nevertheless becoming increasingly aware of it's facets.  I have double vision, so to speak: I see Hobart and Charleston simultaneously.
You learn so much about the places in which you've grown up when you're thousands of miles away.  It's all a kind of double vision, both posterity and the present registering in your thoughts, making up your thoughts.

I presented my final sculpture project today in a rain-misted morning (again).  This project was two piece mould-making--I choose a cell phone--and I was able to successfully cast nine mobile telephones.  These I arranged on a tapioca-coloured sheet with twine, q-tips, and brushes.  My theme is simple, two-fold, and surprisingly indicative of my current double vision: I presented these nine mobile telephones as exhumed artifacts of a lost age, cast in terracotta and arranged like an archaeological field table.

I broke a window last Friday night.  My window, in fact.  I merely leaned against it for upwards of twenty seconds and it came crashing down around me.  Cut up my ankles and legs, even nicked my shoulder.  I finally got around to visiting the TUU (sort of the student union / the folks from whom I'm renting) today only to find that it is, more or less, my responsibility to fix the window as soon as possible.  It's a good thing my monies came through from home, then, huh?  Furthermore, I'm leaving Saturday morning for a five day bushwalk along the Tasman Coastal Trail, which means I need to get the window fixed before then.  Further, furthermore, it is made apparent to me that I need to complete all of my in-house recording for my Foundation Audio projects by Friday because they're all due next Friday--and, seeing as I'll be gone most of the time from now until then, it is imperative that I complete the rough recording tomorrow, or Thursday at the latest.

So now, I'm trying to melt my back into the cheap chair the TUU provided me in my room, nursing a Cascade pale ale, and listening to Radiohead and Skip James, trying to just make it all come together.  And it will.  I hope.

The Weather Dance

It's been some time since last I spoke here.  Almost a month, in fact.  In that time I've experienced much: bushwalks galore, entertaining sculpture projects, music, music, music, and Sytske visiting for her term break.  In fact, last week alone I scaled four mountains!  Incredible times, especially when I fell into the Ladies' Tarn on what I presumed to have been non-slippery rocks.  Luckily, David and Cathy had spare thermals for me to throw on, or that would have been one chilly bushwalk.
Time keeps chugging along.  Taking my life here away so quickly, but not yet!  The semester's about to end, which means I get to do some serious bushwalking and travelling now!  So long as I can balance out my checkbook, that is.
Tonight my housemates are throwing a "black-light party."  (This should be interesting).  I'll be arriving late because Danceaholics Unanimous is tonight and I've missed the past two sessions / there aren't that many left for me.
I happened across a movie on the tv yesterday--Kill Bill Vol. 1.  I couldn't help but feel a visceral apprehension at seeing Uma Thurman driving on the right side of the road.  My first thought was, "she's gonna hit oncoming traffic!"  Clearly, I have been here in Tassie for quite some time.  I love it!
Now is the time for me to start making plans for my return and the Spring back home.  I'm working on my schedule, working on work, a place to live, what to do and who to see.  Maybe, just maybe, I'll be kicking it on Folly Beach in a huge place with awesome folks for cheap.
I hear someone knocking on the door; it must be my hunger.  I'm going to go get some grub, catch you later.

P.S. The weather is getting gorgeous!  Nice 70's a lot of the time, except rainy today.  As such, I'm in the exact same weather as Charleston, for now.