Monday, October 4, 2010

Epitome of me

In the spirit of this blogging business here's just a wee window into all that is me:
-I am eclectic, disorganised, catastrophic even. I like busy, colourful, even cluttered, as opposed to pretty pinks, beautiful ornaments or straight lines. 
-I love Wellington, I adore this city- it's wild, rugged beauty, the fact that two minutes walk from the centre of government you can walk through bush and pretend it's the wildnerness. I love the hills and the views that accompany them- the fact that from virtually any vantage point in this city you can catch a glimpse of the harbour. 

I love that you can walk everywhere, and this isn't a collection of suburbs, but truly a city in itself. 

It is cultured, but not pretentious- financially frugal students will brunch at cafes tables right next to upper-middle-class women who send their daughters to Marsden, and buskers will play just metres from a ballet performance at the opera house.


I love that it has beaches, but also that is far from your idyllic seaside paradise. It is a place where the wind whips up a vigorous energy in its people, and the days of rain make Wellingtonians all the more appreciative of a sunny day.

I love Aro Valley, in all its quirkiness. I think it is a wonderful testament to Wellington, and to New Zealand as a whole, that Brett McKenzie, famous throughout the world, lives in a relatively modest house, in a student suburb.

I love the wooden terraced houses, jumping off the wharf on a sunny day (or on a mid-winter night), the wild south-coast, blanket-man, the coffee, the cafes, the fact that we're living on a fault-line that could send this city under the sea at any given moment.
I love the vege markets, their bright colours, the stalls getting buffeted about in the wind, the throng of people, running into people you know and piecing together last night's craziness and lamenting over today's hangover.


I have walked the Champs Elysees, cycled through the streets of Rome, taken the London Underground countless times, and even ventured to cosmopolitan Istanbul and exotic Marrakech- but nowhere in the world has ever captured my heart quite like Wellington.


-I am a caffeine addict. I love everything about coffee, and believe it is hugely important as a social mechanism. I love the myriad of things that it symbolises- stress, professionalism, the urban, the leisure time, the weekend, the conversation, the friendship, the solitude, the music, the art...




 -I love to run. Walking is overrated. Give me a sunny day and a pair of shoes and I will run for miles and miles. I even like to run in the rain. It's a magical feeling finding a rhythm, or pushing past that pain barrier, to the point where your feet effortlessly pound the pavement and you can think about everything, or absolutely nothing.


-I falling asleep to Bon Iver and that magical moment where a song just seems to fill up your soul and let you close your eyes and smile from the inside out.


-I sleep with my curtains open because I can't stand the thought of shutting away the stars, or missing out on a single ray of sunshine that comes streaming in my window every morning.


 -I love being a geek sometimes. I find my degree fascinating. I enjoy talking about history, or politics






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