Took a walk down Vaci and to Gerbeaud to buy some cakes to take back to Zagreb – and stopped in a record store to get the new Coldplay CD – Viva La Vida – and the store, the clerk reminding me so much of High Fidelity. Yesterday, I had gone by and a cute, hip boy was working and I didn’t have enough forint to pay and said I’d be back this morning on…
Tonight Croatia goes up against Turkey and in Budapest the streets are lined with large plasma screens and sports yells as young and old are glued to the action. Who to vote for? Of course, Croatia but we love Turkey too.
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions – here in Budapest with no clothes, no make-up, no notebook, none of what I prepped, I’m having to improvise. When I walk up to potential sources I have to act like I’m not wearing the same tee shirt I flew 20 hours in, wearing no make up and that my hair hasn’t been styled with a drugstore brush. I tried buying new clothes…
At 4AM Mom called to say Bam Bam returned! She’s going to pull his ear since he was such a bad boy.
Before I left New Orleans, I stumbled accidentally across a website about a young man who was visiting Eastern Europe and said in his blog – don’t bother. According to him, as east as you needed to go was East Berlin because after that it was nothing but gloom and doom from the weather to the attitudes. I had a little prep from T who told me what to expect – directness and not so…
I was telling someone last night how I used to be so orderly about things – my house was cleaned from top to bottom (including the baseboards), my to do list always got checked off at the end of the day, and I could pretty much bank on knowing what I was going to be doing in two months and even went so far as to have a 5-year goal always at hand. Know where…
I’m on my way to Eastern Europe for my indoctrination into all things eel – in my absence I am leaving all my nutty animals with my nutty mom in this nutty city and spreading an eel magic blanket over all of them so that they are safe and happy. I’ll check in when I can to update the progress of eel indoctrination – I might sound different though as there will be no intense…
KATHERINE MANSFIELD: Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.