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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2004-03-10 09:17 am

Everybody's got to live their life, and God knows I've got to live mine...



Now I'm home, in my temporary home. I'm back in England. I'm freezing my ass to the sound of a dripping faucet. I'm going blind with the glare of a grey sky. I'm sleepy and my throat is dry. But wait, let me tell you of the journey that brought me from there (Brasil, the sacred wonderkind) to here (England, poor blind mice).



These travelling things take time, and when it comes to hanging out in airports I'm the most inept that ever stepped. Haha. I just don't know where to start my tale. I hate writing linearly. I guess I woke up one day, and it was a Monday, and it was time for me to go to the airport and leave my family behind. Then in his charming car, my charming brother dropped me outside the slightly non-complex Londrina Airport. I was leaving what I loved; I had to tell myself someone so handsome should not care. And so I didn't.

Time travelling forward: Kevin and I, lying on our red couch last night, listening to some MP3s I brought back with me (recorded during that time I was at Henrique's, when I was downloading music like mad). Kevin starts to laugh when T.A.T.U.'s version of How Soon is Now? comes on. We are only human, even if fake lesbian human, and we need to be loved just like any other struggling Russian artist does.

Time travelling back: When I arrived in Sao Paulo, I had two options: either I stayed in the airport for 12 hours, did some internet, got bored silly, and ate a lot of cake or I booked myself into an airport hotel, went for a swim and worked on my tan, watched inhouse movies (boing chicky chicky boing boing), ate room service, took a nap naked and arrived fresh and sedated to the check in line up. Toss a coin and guess what I chose.

Time travelling forward: Kevin lit up Candle and introduced me to his new NINE little friends! They are the sort that can float in water, but since we knew that two bodies inside a bathtub never manage to keep the water still, we placed the little things around us and tried (barely) to discern the sky from our skylight. Nobody got drowned.

Time travelling back: I reach the airline counter and hand over my passport and ticket. The girl snickers at my 13 year old photo, then rushes about. When she comes back, she has good and bad news. The bad news: they overbooked the flight. The good news: she is bumping me up to Business Class! WooHoo. Hand in Glove, I promise not to tell our secret to any of the other passengers or let any light shine out of my behind. Good luck and have a safe trip.

Time travelling forward: I'm unemployed, I'm in London. We have no curtains in our bedroom so I wake up with the sun and with endless hugs and kisses from Kevin. I stake my claim to the couch and will probably stay here for the next few hours. You, cybernetic freak, must stay on my arm for, if you are in my little friend's list then you must be a little charmer. I need to go grocery shopping, wash this crummy hair of mine, listen to sexy music and dance with a glass of champagne, decree that life is taking and not giving (the art world is mine and owes me a living), cling to the bathtub when I take my 3rd bath of the day and generally eat a lot of cake. I want to kiss somebody underneath an iron bridge.

Time travelling back: We got served champagne, liquors, orange juice, tons of magazine, entree, main course and dessert. I made friends with the Argentinian man beside me (he also got bumped up; we felt like trash that got accidentally mixed with the caviar). Nobody ended up with sore lips, thank god. Just the usual conversations of what you do? where do you go? why did you leave? what are we going to do about staying so far away from Brazil? Will you slash my wrists if I slash yours? No need to be so dramatic, the stewardess seemed to say as she handed us our 4th glass of wine, you are only flying Businees Class! You are still oh so far away from 1st class. I was sitting in the corridor so I didn't get to see any blue sky, any fluffly clouds. I only have that photo, from the top, taken by Meire, to remind me of Brazil when you are walking the streets and you look up.

[identity profile] pantomimewhore.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
i love how you post some of the smiths lyrics into yer stories.
brilliant.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
it's a hard life being an obsessive.

;)

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-11 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
you go, sister!

[identity profile] jeffster.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
yes i thuroughly enjoyed the 'smiths' theme running thru your summary...very you

well hoooo-ray i no longer have to be envious of your jetsetting when you're back in london....

i almost said 'glad you're back'....is it wierd that i find that statement wildly inaccurate since i don't live on your stinky island??

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
and, yes indeed... it's very stinky here! bleurgh. I just came back from the supermarket and I almost stopped at the drugstore for some prozac.


I need a virtual hug.

:O(

[identity profile] ladieslovejesus.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
penises floating in the sky....

argh. dirty mind!

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
*slaps your wrist*



haha... now that i look at the picture, i can see the balls and the penis pointing downwards.

My my, you are very observant...

[identity profile] 4q.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
I love this entry...it's going in the memories

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
:)

i wrote it under the influence of some very powerful Earl's Grey.

[identity profile] 4q.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
bwhahaha, oh how I love that earl grey! it does wonders

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
i was missing it. Though i love coffee, sometimes its nice to have a cup of tea. But people in Brazil don't have that custom.

[identity profile] 4q.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
I love tea, earl grey is by far my favorite, mmmm bergamont. It's such a lovely smell

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
i've never had bergamont!

[identity profile] 4q.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
it's in earl grey sillyhead

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
hehe... i had no clue. what else is in it?

[identity profile] 4q.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
mm I am not really sure...black tea I would think or maybe oolong? they are different I think..I should ask my hip_domestic community that I am in, they know everything

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
hahah! so many weird and wonderful communities... i need to start one of my own one of these days.

It is so cool that...

[identity profile] myendeavorca.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
you have the kind of relationship where you can leave and come back and have no drama or accusations involved, in fact, just the opposite. You are a lucky man.

I'm glad you are home safe. I am thinking about joining you with the cake eating and the unemployment.

Re: It is so cool that...

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
hehe! thanks... it's weird, but i have kinda been thinking of my relationship sometimes in comparison to yours - we have been together with our partners for the same amount of time (though Kevin and I are not married) and there have been moments of stress...

as for the unemployment bit, i don't know what to say. It was the best thing I did this year - but only because i have money saved up to keep me going before I find something. As for cake, I sooooo need a black forest right now!

[identity profile] dilvalicious.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
see, these are the ollie entries we missed

=)

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
aww.. thanks. Dilly... I can't figure out how to post on Chris' journal! help!

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
i just figured out. DUHHHH!!! I wasn't logged in as my username.

I'm not thinking these days...

[identity profile] dilvalicious.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
that's okay *pats on head*

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
*licks hand and jumps on chair*

[identity profile] dilvalicious.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
*plays with your balls*

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-11 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
*screams for RSPCA's help*

[identity profile] peraventure.livejournal.com 2004-03-10 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny, but I listened to many of those songs just today!

But I listened to the Stones first. Sticky Fingers is the perfect length for my commute to school. I'll figure out that filter today.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-11 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
ok... i'm curious about what went on with you.

Early Stones rocks. And can you believe I don't own any of their stuff? I'm going to correct that soon.

:)

[identity profile] peraventure.livejournal.com 2004-03-11 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Shite, need me to send you some? I've got seven albums. Sticky Fingers, Exile, Some Girls, Tattoo You, Beggars Banquet, Black and Blue, Let It Bleed.

Think I'm gonna listen to Black adn Blue this morning. and I'll figure out the filter as soon as I remember to. fuckit, I've got your email address for sure now. you'll get gossip tonight. then you'll have to help me analyze it. cos wtf?!

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-11 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
haha ! i'm good at analyzing gossip. No worries about recording the stones. let's leave it for later.

;)

[identity profile] peraventure.livejournal.com 2004-03-11 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
K, well I'll tell you when I'm away from school.

and fine. you can ask for the stones later.