yes i know i havent written about our holiday yet - and i will - although maybe i have built it up a little too much now - it wasnt that good - it was great to see people but not a life changing experience - well the trip home was - but not in a good way - and certainly not one i wish to dwell on.…
back to the task at hand - i promised to post a pic of the cake from “the wedding” so here it is!!
This was supposed to be an update on how the trip to NZ was.… That is coming, but will have to wait for now. I wrote this over at jordesign.com but thought I would share it here as well as it is interesting to think about.…
Derek Sivers has a great post entitled Kurt Vonnegut explains drama - it’s pretty self explanatory.
Vonnegut plots two examples of popular story arcs - Cinderella (mundane life gets dramatically better before something goes wrong, then is resolved and you live happily ever after) and your typical disaster plot (something terrible happens, people band together to solve the problem, life eventually returns to normal, but slightly better) on a graph to show the eb and flow of drama.
Then he plots what the average persons experience looks like on the same graph - needless to say it isn’t as impressive to look at.
Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so fantastic or terrible that it’ll be told for a thousand years.
This, he says, is why people cause drama in their own lives, why they enjoy sports events and competitions. These things help us feel as though our lives are more dramatic than the reality.
We’re trying to make our life into a fairy tale.
this post is a filler - to let you know that we are not quite back to normal after our away time in NZ - a double barrelled illness has kept us home, exhausted and quite unwell. however, i will write of our trip and such in the next few days. apologies to all those people checking in for the holidays stories.
we are going.… TONIGHT!!!!!
and its very VERY exciting. i feel a bit weird - its almost surreal and i can hardly believe that 12 hours we will be there with our old friends just hanging out like we’d never left.
it wont be a long time but i sure hope its a good time :)
see you all next week
you know that you watch some obscure tv when you see quite a prominent contestant of a show that is still airing and be the only one to recognise him… at central station… in morning peak hour.… even if - by regonise - i meant do a little ‘eep’ type noise and then walk away while he smiles in a weird kind of way.
and for all you project runway fans - i wont tell you who it was.… not till the end of the season anyhow.
so its been a little while - after the aftermath of b’days for nephews, friends in hsopital and the ever important counting down for NZ - i just forgot to blog.. wel and the internet has been a little tricky.
even so - i apologise and would love to inform you all that there are ONLY 3 SLEEPS TO GO till we head to the other place we called home…
the archive for September 2009 on www.jordandchan.com.