2002-11-06

I am finding myself gaining in energy as the days warm up, but the last few nights have seen me very troubled in my sleep. So many things to think about, so many changes happening that it is difficult to leave one day behind to gallop into the next because there is this lingering feeling of unfinished business.

Not even bad TV has helped me sleep, which is unusual because Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley have an unerring way off sending me off to sleep with their exercise machine infomercial. But in the last week I have sat up right through the whole hour of sweating, pumping bodies, and have even pondered obtaining one of the machines in order to increase my fitness, strength and flexibility. Lod knows I have better things to do with both my time, and the $300 the machine costs. Perhaps I am being hypnotised by Chuck's alluring smile...

Busy busy at work, at play. Lost money on the Melbourne Cup - for the first time in seven years I didn't back the winner. Am I losing my touch? Drank too much champers to drown my sorrows and ended up talking AT some friends until they made me shut up and go home.

Am considering a trip to Argentina/Cuba next year with the Latin Dance group I train with. I'd love to check out South America in total, but something tells me to take it easy for a start and do a toury thing rather than doing my usual trick of immersing myself in another culture by spending too much time there trying to be a local. For once perhaps it is my chance to be an absolute tourist instead of a borgeious chameleon.

Time to go host trivia and to work up a sweat in the vain hope that tonight I may get more then five hours' sleep. woo-hoo, the things we do for rent money...

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