Talk intelligently about pret and couture labels emerging from the same design houses and wine growing regions in Australia.
The silence after a Ratan Thiyam performance when his cast touches his feet and hears, in pin drop reverential silence, his verdict on their performance that evening.
The first few drum beats and the first lit candles before our poetry performances with Rafiki begin.
Crowded farewell parties where wine mixes with Irish cream mixes with beer and everyone lives to tell the tale.
Ex boyfriends meet each other civilly over coffee.
Moving back to a new (old) city. Old house, old flatmate, old office building till suddenly IBN moves office.
The new IBN office; glitzy, mall-like, plasma-screen-decorated.
Friends lost (to High Emotion) and made despite hostile initial meetings.
Turquoise Cottage on smoke-filled Wednesday nights.
24-hour English music on radio.
Silver-shiny laptop.
Prolonged un-wellness.
Many different coloured rugs, dim lamps, hanging lamps, the smell of smoke in the air.
My FUTON.
:-)
What a year!
