Magic Trick

My bank account did a magic trick this morning when I woke up and suddenly had all my funds in it. What a relief!

So I'm going to tell a story on myself, but first I have to give some background.  One of my friends back home, Loogey, just released his new hip-hop album and it's fantastic. I've been listening to it for the past three days straight and can't get enough of it. Now, I credit my interest to good hip-hop to my very good friend, Tyler. Over the years, hip-hop has developed in our relationship to bring about one of our favorite activities which is to go into my basement late at night, turn on some loud freestyle beats, and have ourselves a rap battle. The best part is that we rap into a mic which is plugged into absolutely nothing--it really just makes us feel better about it all. Tyler always wins and we always have a fantastic time, no matter how good, bad, or horrible our lines might come out.

So, I talked to Tyler yesterday and we read each other some of the things we've been working on and he told me that an exercise he used to do was just freestyle to himself all the time in his head, or while he was alone in his car, etc. I've done this before and it's done a lot to help me write, not only in poetry, but in prose. Keeping this in mind, it's now just after midnight and I've walked from my unit, across the quad, to the laundry to pick up my washing, and back, all the while piecing together a long, coherent verse that I was really proud of. I capped the verse off in my head and dumped my laundry out onto my bed, forgetting that I had placed my box of powdered detergent at the bottom of my basket. I had covered my bed in soap and spent the next 20 minutes carefully trying to salvage the situation. I ended up not sleeping with my comforter, which was still covered in soap, and this lead to a very cold and poor night's sleep. But, as my grandfather would say, these are the kinds of problems to have.

Now, after typing that whole, rather long winded story out, I'm wondering if it was really worth it at all...

I spent most of yesterday, as I mentioned in my last post, planning my Easter vacation. I'm revamping things to try to go up to Cairns to visit the Great Barrier Reef and then spend an extended amount of time in Melbourne. Will also invited me to spend some time in Aubry. So we'll see.

Here's a story I don't think I ever told you. During the first week or two of school, I ran into Georgia at the club. Georgia is a girl from Ballarat that attended Missouri State on exchange last semester and who talked to me, at length, during orientation about coming to uni here. It was really cool to run into her and let her know how things were going!

Cheers guys.
~D