My Friday

[miladycarol]

G had a date with a dentist in Cabramatta with his family today, so I had the day off again. I walked to the station and embarked upon a voyage downtown to the Queen Victoria Building. It's an elegant old structure that has been revamped into a 4 story mall connected directly to the Town Hall train station. I took some pictures, but I won't even try to post them until we are on broadband. This dial-up stuff is rather slow. *blink blink*

So, I shopped for an afternoon, indulged in some delicious fruit juice, tried (unsuccessfully) to find an appropriate gift for Mom, then returned home. It was a lovely day. But I was a bit lonely. In Eugene, I run my errands and manage to find great conversation with complete strangers regularly. Here, I am hard pressed to start anything other than necessary exchanges from the people I meet. I guess I need a letter of recommendation from a mutual associate. People just seem so busy on on task. Even the clerks in stores wrap up their business with a minimum of banter. *sigh*

Cultural note: The word "math" seems to always be plural here. In both speech and print, I hear and see it as "maths."

I think I had a lot more to say, but it took me hours to work my way through the past 4 days of email and posts. It's 10 pm and I haven't made my dinner yet. *grimace* I'm going to call it quits and take care of that. I can't wait until we have broadband sometime next week. Maybe I'll be able to keep up to date.

Comments

[indiecowboy.livejournal.com]

Eugene is one of the only places that there are people willing to relate to you what ever pops into their heads....WV is even more notorious for that....since I don't want to talk to strangers it's a particular challenge for me to get through a transaction without running away from a story of a hunting dog and a squirrel.

Colorado is more to my liking...nicely devoid of chit chat. You'd hate it.

; )

[miladycarol.livejournal.com]

Well, Boulder was fine. I didn't have too much interaction with the public as we were trapped in the hotel for most of the weekend. It was an Internet conference. I had nice banter with the people near the university.

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

Sounds like paradise!!!

It's such a struggle to come up with something to say to cashiers. I hate meaningless banter and smalltalk, I avoid it at all costs.

Reason #92 I like having Birdie with me- I can focus on her because I have to! :)

[miladycarol.livejournal.com]

I'm not fanatical. It's more like Conversation Lite. I don't force it upon those who prefer no banter. But, here, I'm lonely, so I'm looking for friendly exchanges. Hoping for them. Ah well.

[thakur.livejournal.com]

welcome to Sydney

[miladycarol.livejournal.com]

Thanks!