Party Time

Hello dear audience of three, how I've missed you. I have been lax in updating my blog, I apologize. I have started a new job which requires a commute from my beach suburb into Sydney proper, a trip that takes me by the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge daily. I'll upload a photo of that soon.

In other news, last night I went to Tropfest, an outdoor short film festival held in a park adjoining the botanical gardens. It epitomized all that I love best about Australia-people getting together to enjoy something with minimal drama. Case in point: there were thousands of people at the fest, with picnics, coolers of beer and boxes of wine. No one was drunk and disorderly, although certainly many people were drinking. The audience stayed quiet and enjoyed the films during their presentation, people were cautious not to tread on others' picnic blankets, the lines for the toilets moved quickly and painlessly. No authoritarian security guards on power trips busting people for drinking in public, no drunken hecklers, no screen-blockers. It was just chill. Oh, and did I mention it was free? And there were local upcoming bands (ie Van She, check them out) playing the pre-show, and celebrity judges Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts. As dusk fell, swarms of bats flew out of the trees and circled over the edge of the clearing while on the hunt, as if they too were watching the events. All in all, it was so well run it would have been worth paying decent money to attend. I am thoroughly impressed.