How the years do go by

I don't like this business where the days and weeks fly by too quickly. At the moment it's like when you're on the train and you look down at the tracks outside the window and they're moving real fast. What i want it to be like is when you look off into the distance and you can easily see the shape of the landscape and it doesn't disappear too fast.

Y'see, people need to be busy occasionally. I'm not sure why - sense of productivity, actual productivity. But if you're busy too often, you can't enjoy yourself. You can't even see the time passing before your eyes. You wake up one morning in a cold sweat and realise it's 2063 and you haven't stopped to smell the roses in god knows how long. But then it's too late. That's why my new job has one busy week followed by one quiet week the whole year through.

Tonight I eat bacon and lentil soup in Leichhardt in preparation for Australia v Italy somewhere on Norton St. My prediction: everything will be booked out and we'll be forced to listen in the freezing cold on ham radio. But what an atmosphere!