Wet

I was up at 6am.

7.20am, ready to leave, and the rain comes down, as I was about to walk out the door. Grrr. Isn’t it always the way.  (What law do we call that?) 

I like my walks in the morning, and I need the exercise, but not so much in the rain.

I tried waiting at the Brunswick Street tram stop, as the worst of the rain fell. Under the glass shelter, with a old woman with a shopping jeep. There was a big white and orange sign cable tied to the post, apparently, the trams had been replaced by busses, due to tram rail works, there was a map of the works, but I stopped reading before I got to that. How do you expect a short bus to replace a long tram, I ask you? (I asked myself) The buses aren’t articulated, I was pretty sure about that.

I’m not paying $4 to go two stops on a stinky internal combustion engine sardine can, fuck that, I think. The rain eases, a bit, and I pop my umbrella open and walk. It is humid and wet.

I catch a tram at St Vincent’s Plaza. I’m saturated with rain, or sweat, or both? Whatever? All I know is liquid is dripping down my face. People push onto the old, single-car tram. The air is damp, so are the people. The smell of wet person is in the air. 7.30am and the tram is packed? What gives? Walking is so much nicer, I think.

I’m wet. I can feel water dripping down my face. I’ve got a seat, at least, and I sit perfectly still. The rain water drips off my hair and down the back of the collar of my shirt. It gives me a twitch.

I was in the lift at 7.47am.

I’m first one in the office, it is usually either me or Jason Wang. I just get up early, and I live close, it is no real achievement, I can assure you.

My hair was saturated. I was wet, as I sat at my desk. I exhale. Brrrrrr.

I switch my computer on.

Jason arrives.

After discovering all the unreleased Rolling Stones songs, recently, and there are many of them, I also discovered that most of them are on YouTube. So, I put in my earpods and listen. I make a YouTube playlist. I don’t need to buy the music when I can make a YouTube playlist.

Rolling Stones Come on Sugar (1976)

Rolling Stones Still a Fool – this song is by The Rolling Stones and appears on the compilation album Genuine Black Box 1961-1974 (2010).

Rolling Stones Stuck Out All Alone (1968)

Rolling Stones Highway Child (1968) Beggars Banquet Outtake

Rolling Stones Dirty Work Acoustic Sessions

Rolling Stones Under the Radar (2005)

Rolling Stones You Can't Cut The Mustard

Rolling Stones Fast Walking Slow Talking (1973) Goats Head Soup Outtake

Rolling Stones Keep It Cool - 1983 Undercover outtake - Love this

Rolling Stones The Way She Held Me Tight (1978)

Rolling Stones Do You Think I really Care (1978)

Rolling Stones Everlasting is my love (1978) Keith

I’m working on my own, Melissa has the day off, so nobody takes any notice of what I am doing. The music plays in my ears. I wonder about my phone ringing, but any messages that are left on my phone come up in my emails, anyway. Besides, I have everyone pretty well trained by now to email me.

The work day slowly begins.

Everyone else slowly arrives. I can’t hear their hellos over the Rolling Stones, but I can pretty much guess the timing of their hello and I respond accordingly. -->
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