Yeah, I know it's self inflicted but I'm feeling gritty and grumpy and I needed some gritty grey on the blog. These shots are from Enoshima Beach a few weeks back. I get so shocked when I see beaches like this, after a lifetime of gorgeous Queensland and Nuiginian beaches.
You may have noticed some tremendous gnarliness around the site over the past 4 or 5 days. Yes, tremendous indeed. The site completely broke while my host shifted it to another server and they had to replace it with a 5 day old back up. So anyone who made comments during that time, sorry - but they're all gone. I had to repost a few items (Luckily Ecto keeps copies of all posts on my desktop)
In other news, my flatmate Charlene is away in Canada for 10 days - she's gonna surprise her Mum for her birthday, so the house is empty and I can feel a lot of DVD's and self-indulgent beer drinking coming on. I have a pointless crush on a lovely man who can't speak a word of English. When I'm talking to him I end up making these pathetic one-syllable Japanese (or worse, English) utterances out of pure nervousness. Like today, for example. My one word utterance for today was (a non Japanese word) “Australia!” with a smile and raised forefinger. He laughed knowingly and I sauntered over to the other side of the room with false confidence, looking at the floor quietly trying to remove my foot from my mouth and cursing my choice to put photography and web-tinkering way up high in the study stakes while leaving Japanese study for my drinking outings and lesson small talk. *Le sigh. I am doomed to an eternity of bachelorette-ness.
frangipani wrote this on June 13, 2006 10:38 PM
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wish i could join you in united drunken bachelorette-ness, but am stuck in this damn training centre until 23rd.
but hey, am with you from afar.
wanted to write something perky & uplifting, but with my recent bachelorette experiences still niggling, think i will not try to 'perk'.
instead i will say 'kanpai', and raise my beer can to you in solidarity.
On June 14, 2006 10:10 PM,
Sarah said:
Hey Martine, Sorry to hear about your bad booing incident the other night. I had something similar the other night - a group of people had turned up to watch the match just to Brit-bash, or more specifically English-bash. No matter how much I try and not make it personal, it still bothers and feels uncomfortable. They weren't from Paraguay! Aus did a great job the other night but there was ructions in our house. Awful.
Hi Nicole! So sorry you didn't get to experience any of the UK's beautiful beaches on your visit. If you visit again, I recommend Dorset, Devon and Cornwall in particular, as well as Wales and Norfolk. Just lovely and Norfolk is wild and windy and very English - a real contrast to the tropics. From the pom.
honey, kanpai. drunk as a skunk tonight with my mate matt from melbourne. soooo needed to be very drunk tonight. laughed my head off all night long, just what the doctor ordered.
eh the booing didn't worry me so much. tim and i just shrugged them off as nordic dicks. which they were. i was shocked to see such unsportsmanlike carryon but hey, the ring leader was wearing a black turtleneck in steamy spring. pretentious fucker (i was in a tank top it was so hot).
Now now, predictions of eternal bachelorette-hood are a bit extreme... i recommend leaving the country, and then the perfect boy is sure to turn up at the last moment!!! You can learn from my experience, however, by planning to do a runner on your job and your house, and not actually buying your ticket until you get to the airport. That way, when you change your mind and stay in Japan with the boy, you only need to deal with the embarrassment of having told everyone (except your colleagues and your landlord) you were leaving and having the farewell party and all, and then changing your mind (for very good reasons) at the last moment. It cant fail!!!!
he he he, yep, that really seems to be the perfect formula doesn't it - it works for almost every single who plans to leave. I'm so happy for you and your hottie but so sad you're living in different countries. that's gotta suck!
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