Come Saturday

I’m really looking forward to tomorrow night. At 6pm this guy (see below) is performing for free at a bar in Wellington called Mighty Mighty, and guess who’s going? That’s right, moi.

I suppose I should tell you who that is: that, my friends, is none other than Kiwi musician Dave Dobbyn, who became very popular in New Zealand in the 80’s, and has written and performed many songs that are now part of NZ’s culture (he’s particularly well-known for having written the soundtrack music for the animated feature film Footrot Flats, a classic Kiwi cartoon), such as ‘Slice of Heaven’, ‘Welcome Home’, ‘Loyal’, ‘You Oughta Be in Love’ and many more. The reason he’s performing for free in Wellington this weekend is to celebrate the start of NZ Music Month (May 2010). Dobbyn has been active in the music industry since his first debut with a rock band called Th’Dudes way back in 1979. This is a guy with musical credentials, so I’m excited about watching him live. After all, he’s a national treasure here in New Zealand.

Spoiler alert

I’m one of those people who hasn’t seen the ending of LOST, mostly because I, for some reason, thought it had already ended a while ago. After I discovered that it hadn’t, I decided against downloading episodes to catch up on it, simply because it takes up too much brain capacity to try to understand what the f**k is going on, and 99,9% of my brain capacity is already devoted to my university studies so there was no room for it. However, I think the last episode aired on TV in NZ tonight, and I came across this one link on facebook to a cartoon that pretty much sums up the answers to all the things everyone has been wondering about when it comes to LOST, in a rather funny way. Enjoy.

This is where I belong

I have never felt more at home in Wellington than I do right this moment. “Why?” do you ask. Because it’s raining.

Not like, drizzling. It’s actually raining. Properly. The best part is that it’s still incredibly warm (we’ve had 20 degrees today) and hardly any wind; so big, heavy raindrops are falling almost vertically, with an occasional warm gust of wind just to make you smile. And such great timing! I didn’t have my first tutorial until 3pm, so I had the entire morning and most of the afternoon to just do my own thing, so this morning I put on a pair of shorts and went into town to do my grocery shopping. However, even shorts were too warm, but I mean, I saw people wearing large coats, boots, scarves, hats and so on, so I guess I’d look even more ridiculous if I’d taken my light jacket off and walked around in a T-shirt and shorts when apparently, it’s almost winter. I walked past a shoe shop with a big sign in the window which said: ‘Weeeeee! Winter is here!’ I just smiled at it and kept walking.

Then when I was walking to university I felt a raindrop land on my head, and a minute later I’d walked straight into a shower, but once you manage to get inside a building you’re pretty safe, because you can walk between all the buildings without having to go outside. It kept raining during my tutorial and the lecture I had straight afterwards, and then I was off home. I was lucky, though, because the rain came at a slight angle and hit me on the back, which makes it more pleasant than annoying. Before I was halfway home (it only takes about 5 minutes for me to walk home) I was contemplating just staying outside to play in the puddles and get soaked to the skin, but then I decided against it just because I started thinking about the song ‘Bowl of Oranges’ by Bright Eyes, which begins with the words ‘The rain, it started tapping on the window near my bed’ and this made me want to play it in my room, so I went home.

Oh and lest not forget: I got a test we had before the Easter break back today, and I got an A-. It made my day.

(Completely intentional blurred movement by the way…)