alright.  so what have i been up to since i left queenstown.  Not a whole lot, been hanging out, kindof looking for work, but not really.  I had money then ran out.  I guess I need to find another job eh?  Well, since I ran out of money, I can't afford to go out into the world and make any, so what i've been doing is living at friends farms and WWOOFing, which is living and working there for free.  It's been good but i'm not making any money.... The month of October is going by almost as quick as september did, maybe quicker.  Currently i am waiting for a tax refund, and when that shows up, i'll get like 500 dollars and then it's time to party. oh yeah.  Well, then I can afford to pay for accomodation and food while I work another job, possibly tree planting.  I also want to go to the mainland, see some big cities, leave Tasmania.  

  I've got lots of time on my hands, figguratively speaking because i cannot literally hold time, but you know, i'm just like hanging out over here not doing too much.  I'm staying with Bronwyn at her beautiful mountain church, it's pretty great but part of me thinks about money and how I want to get some without working too hard.  For the past two weeks I've been working a few hours in the day, and wasting time on the internet at night; also reading alot, and writing some; I've been 'going to school' which is me learning from books and taking lots of notes- i've taught myself the fundamentals of Piano tuning, the complex and boring rules of english grammer (it's kindof interesting) and a linguistics course in progress, and i'm continuing on with my music studies with advanced harmony and complex counterpoint- this stuff is pretty cool despite all the abstract rules, and my inability to hear the music by playing it or really do any of the composition excercises.  I'm also thinking about my distant future, regarding the question of what im going to do with my life.  I still want to become a piano technician and tuner by going to school in september 2009, at UWO in london, which is apparently the best school in nort america for that type of thing.  After that I'm thinking about returning to montreal to study languages and probably more music, using the language stuff as leverage into a new and exciting carear in teaching english (or french) overseas, in china or japan, or somewhere else- middle east, vietnam,,, the list of cool places goes on.  I just need the skills to pay the bills.

  In other news, the world economy keeps getting worse- I wonder what that will mean. Loss of jobs? what jobs? Bankruptcy? I have no idea, and i don't want to follow it too much.  I read in time magazine about how London england, financial capitol of the world, is kindof in deep trouble.  But what does it mean?    From my understanding, a very simple understanding, is that banks are huge collections of wealth- people put their money in banks and the banks use the money- at any given time the bank is using alot more money than it actually has, and if all the people are like hey we want all of our money back, the bank is totally fucked.  Also the whole sub prime mortgage thing is crazy, with lots of idiots buying worthless crap, bank loans that the people can't pay back.  With all of these huge collections of wealth crumbling, will the world crumble with it?  Will the price of broccoli go up, double, or become too expensive for me to afford?  Part of me thinks that maybe it's a good thing, like how could the world keep up with the growth, the exponential growth couldn't go on so maybe it's a good thing. Maybe this will eliminate the whole idea of super super rich people and the wealth will be more evenly spread out. Maybe not.  I don't know.  In the end most things are forgotten. Life is short while art is long. I'm going to keep on doing what i'm doing I guess.

 Yesterday I climbed a mountain- it was the most intense mountain climb of my life.  I got soooo high man, it was like, amazing.