I had some friends over lastnight for a few drinks for my ‘going away’ to Thailand for 2 weeks.. it was great fun. My partner said that the trip is not long enough to really qualify for a ‘going away’ drinks.. she’s right, as always, but that doesn’t often affect my decisions.
Speaking of going away, I heard a DJ called Dools on Triple J talk about his usual ritual before catching a plane. He said that people who die in a planecrash usually gets their last message publicised on the news.. and they’re usually something like : “take care, I love you forever”.. or “I’ll see you soon, you’re my only love”.. bla bla, you get the idea.. So the other day he sent this to his girlfriend:
‘Better eat that pizza in the fridge, it’s getting old’ – just before he boarded his plane…
His rationale is this: If you send a nice love-y dove-y message then you’ve sealed the deal – you’re likely to crash.. but you never see mundane messages published in the news about someone in a planecrash.. I think it kinda makes sense.. I mean if your love ones need to have a romantic SMS everytime you go away then wouldn’t you start to ask why they don’t feel loved when you’re around?!?!?!?
Anyway I better get back to packing.. there’s a real art to packing light so as to leave ample room for all the stuff I’ll be buying on my partner’s shopping list 
