Just like old times...
Oct. 8th, 2007 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morslaI had a sudden flash of nostalgia yesterday, as I waited for an early-morning tram down Bourke Street. I'd been awake for far too many hours, the tramstop was across the street from the old Abyss venue, and I was heading home...
Flying east without crossing the International Date Line is like taking a temporal crash diet. Since boarding the plane on Friday night, I've managed to lose two days. One of them was claimed by the timezones; a debt owed to replace the bonus day I'd stolen while flying to Los Angeles. The other vanished as my sleep debt caught up with me - seamlessly merging Sunday morning and night, with no trace of what happened during the daylight hours.
Now I'm back in familiar surrounds, seeing them from a new perspective. It's time to start work on the biggest task of the lot: where I'm going next. Over the next few months I'll be busy implementing all the new ideas I've borrowed from around the world, and slowly getting my business off the ground.
Instead of sleeping, I watched CNN Future Summit: Virtual Worlds on the flight back from Singapore. One of the panellists (probably Second Life's Phillip Rosedale) commented that a part of what we consider the "real" world is our ability to change it. There's something satisfying about returning from two months of constant flux, to a place where I can finally have some tangible effect on the world around me.
Enough with the typing... back to reality, whatever that might be.
Flying east without crossing the International Date Line is like taking a temporal crash diet. Since boarding the plane on Friday night, I've managed to lose two days. One of them was claimed by the timezones; a debt owed to replace the bonus day I'd stolen while flying to Los Angeles. The other vanished as my sleep debt caught up with me - seamlessly merging Sunday morning and night, with no trace of what happened during the daylight hours.
Now I'm back in familiar surrounds, seeing them from a new perspective. It's time to start work on the biggest task of the lot: where I'm going next. Over the next few months I'll be busy implementing all the new ideas I've borrowed from around the world, and slowly getting my business off the ground.
Instead of sleeping, I watched CNN Future Summit: Virtual Worlds on the flight back from Singapore. One of the panellists (probably Second Life's Phillip Rosedale) commented that a part of what we consider the "real" world is our ability to change it. There's something satisfying about returning from two months of constant flux, to a place where I can finally have some tangible effect on the world around me.
Enough with the typing... back to reality, whatever that might be.
