February 12, 2006 – 4:28 pm

Today is slow day. Melbourne seemed so dead last week for a very good reason: Sunday’s the day the city sleeps it off. Trams stop running, businesses are closed, and the streets are empty. Remember in the movie “Vanilla Sky” with Tom Cruise, how all of Times Square was empty? Or in “Honey I Blew Up The Kid” when Las Vegas turned off all its lights? Remember what feats these were for the movie-makers? Suffice to say in Melbourne it wouldn’t be much of a to-do.

And the thing is, I’m quite alright with that fact. I’m really starting to like this place. I like the good cheap food, the availability of public transport, the shops tucked in every possible niche. I like walking down a street I’ve been down a half dozen times before and still discovering things. I could visit a new bar every day for a month and still be unfamiliar with the place. Of course much of this has to do with the very nature of a big city, granted. That kind of living is attractive to youth. I’m still looking to get a place in the Central Business District because, well… it’s so central. I am the young.

Temporarily though, I’ve called off my searches. As with the rest of the city today is my day off. Maybe I’ll take some pictures like certain people keep asking me to—you know who you are. Maybe I’ll just lounge around all day writing emails. I don’t really know. But I know I’ll be sticking around here for awhile.