tigertail in new york

I fly out tomorrow to my homeland for my first visit since I moved here. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time. Excited cos there's so much to do and so many people to catch up with, but nervous cos as much as we'd like to believe everything back home has been encased in a beautiful bubble waiting for us to return, that's not the case.

People have left the city, moved interstate and overseas, changed careers, changed lives, fallen in and out of love, conquered demons, fallen of the wagon, disappeared from the face of the earth..

I was supposed to pack today, and then have a leisurely day tomorrow preparing for my flight and finalising everything from my last job. Instead I was woken with a phone call at 9am after getting home at 3am after wrap drinks for the film I just finished working on. Keys for a truck were nowhere to be found, and people meant to drive to the set to wrap it out were nowhere to be found.

I ended up driving out to the far reaches of Long Island to get another set of keys, delivering them to Jersey and then driving back into the city to run errands, buy some things people have asked me to bring back to Australia and have farewell lunch with my brother.

I got home at 7:30pm.

I don't want to be packing till 3 or 4 am like the last few trips I have been on, so I'm about to make some calls and get started.

I really need a vacation... Hopefully I'll get to rest a little on this trip and not spend all my time going through boxes of stuff sorting out what to bring back here ;^)

Wish me luck!!

Posted by Ness on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 8:10 PM | Permalink