a distant horizon

it's may. you might have noticed, but if not; it's may.

last august, malawi and i flew from san francisco to auckland. then we took the train to wellywellywellington and attempted to live there. we were blown away, though. in an atmospheric way. we celebrated our first anniversary laughing at lambs and then dragged our stuff to melbourne. that was october.

we've had more success living in melbourne. malawi was given heaps of money to be smart and to kill fish for science. we hung up some pictures and bought some cutlery. i got work, which sucked, then got some work, which unsucked. friends were made in a tentative, butt-sniffy sort of way.

now, in a pair of weeks, my folks and godfolks are coming to visit. a few weeks after that, i'm flying to new york and then, in july, on to san francisco.

it will have been almost a year since i was home.

buying the plane ticket home has evoked a sensation within me that i can only really describe in cinematic terms, so bear with me. do you know that effect, first used by hitchcock in vertigo as far as i know, but also by speilberg in jaws among others, where the camera is pushed in towards the subject while the lens is simultaneously zoomed out? so the subject stays the same size in the frame but the back and foreground both do that wonky stretching thing?

yeah. that's how i feel. you don't know what i'm talking about, but i can live with that. if you can't; rent Jaws. watch for the scene where Roy Schieder witnesses the shark attack on the beach. Jaws is great. we love robert shaw.

anyway. buying this airline ticket has sort of stretched out the past year for me. i'm looking around now going, "australia? married? australia? macaque on a kitten? what!"

exhibit a: macaque on a kitten

you see how i'm confused?

i've decided to come home for longer vs. shorter, figuring it's so damn expensive to get there, might as well soak it up. plus july is summer in the north and winter down here.

i'm not sure how it will feel to be home, or to return to melbourne after being home. i can only hope that melbourne continues to grow on me. we're here for another three years at least, so...

see you soon?