A Revolution Around The Sun

Exactly one year ago today GenesisDreams went live. I made my first post, and the rest is history.
Today also marks the end of my first semester on exchange at Nottingham University. We have to be out of our rooms by 10am. I’m going travelling for most of the summer.
So I thought to celebrate this anniversary I would look back over the past year and use my GenesisDreams entries as focal points around which I’ll summarise the events in my life. So here it is, the world according to my blog.
June 12, 2003
Motivations – “this blog will become one of the most important links I will have to all the family and friends I will leave”. La raison d’être of GenesisDreams. I think it was served it’s purpose well.
Tomorrow’s just an excuse away… – Posting well past midnight, that would become the norm.
Tech Stuff – The start of comments! How I love comments. Listening to Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief
June 13, 2003
And then there were five. – Wulfen joins the Japan Trip adventure! What a great addition he made… Cabbage!
June 14, 2003
Toot! Toot! – Two weeks before we depart we organise our JR Rail Passes. They certainly came in handy.
June 15, 2003
Art of Noise – Listening to The Seduction of Claude Debussy by Art of Noise. I still love that album.
June 17, 2003
Lantastic – Work, friends, university, travel. I haven’t Lanned in ages.
June 21, 2003
Wasted Day – I spent the whole day reading a book, and now I can’t for the life of me remember which book.
June 27, 2003
One sleep to go! – The day before I left for Japan, the day I finished my last exam for the semester, the beginning of my first fantastic adventure.
July 04, 2003
Big in Japan! – First post from another country! Japan blew my mind, and still does, I want to go back.
July 08, 2003
Tired in Japan. – The plan to visit the Studio Ghibli Museum and Studio Gainax! Only one of those worked out, but it was fun all the same.
July 15, 2003
Missing?? – The first of many outages for GenesisDreams. I’m not exactly sure what caused this one.
July 16, 2003
Got Item!! – Able to post again, it’s the Gion Festival! Kyoto is perhaps my favourite Japanese city.
July 21, 2003
Back in Tokyo – My last post from Japan, I had hoped to write more while I was over there, but we were just so busy I didn’t get the chance. I’ve also still not finished my “Japan Trip” webpage.
July 29, 2003
Home at last – Back in Australia, where I didn’t want to be. I already missed Japan by this point, and was heading towards some serious post-trip blues.
July 31, 2003
Australia is boring – The start of my six month sojourn back “home”. I love my family and friends, and I miss them terribly, but Australia really is boring.
August 03, 2003
Moving, just keep moving… – Driving with Fragma, those were great times. Just hanging with Fragma and the guys was great. It’s probably one of the things I miss the most.
August 04, 2003
Thirty days – The outline of the Japan trip. Where we went and when. We saw so much in so little time, but there is still so much more to be seen, and I also don’t think you can truly experience the place without living there. I want to live there.
August 05, 2003
A 65-litre life – My backpack, containing all that I own. It’s here with me now in the UK, and it’s served me well over this past year.
August 12, 2003
With or without you… – One of my biggest entries, describing one of the most event filled couple of days that happened last year. Fragma broke up with Lisa, we all got together and drank, and hung out, and messed around. I came to realise just how much I valued my friends and got a hint then how much I would miss then now. This was also pretty much the beginning of the Fragma/Littlewing relationship.
August 14, 2003
We’re all going to die! – An asteroid is going to his the earth in 800 years time. Better watch out!
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Ok I got this far, but now I’ve got to go. Always leaving things to the last minute I am.
I’ll be updating Genesisdreams a lot less frequently over the next couple of months. I’ll do my best to get to net access while I’m on the road, but it might be quite a while between updates. When I return I’ll fill everyone in on what I’ve been up too.
Written while listening to Halycon & On & On by Oribtal. If there ever was a song to accompany a “clip show” of my life, I would want it to be this one.