What a day! 6 AM train from Warrnambool. Some nice views of dawn as we were leaving town. Mist in the paddocks and that. Was feeling a bit agoraphobic on the train and thought about coming straight home, but screw that! Got to the apartment and checked-in. Woman was on the phone to the manager about a bad review they got about the check-in process, and kept me waiting for like 5 mins while they discussed this. Bit weird. Was nice once I was checked in. A little space like that would be cool to live in. Man, East Melbourne is so nice. The spectre of Sophie and my past life looms large though. Met Caroline in the park for an L&P and plum picnic, and then walked to yo-chi for fro-yo. Very good! Nice to hang out with Caroline. Probably the first civilian outside of a pretty small bubble that I’ve spoken to socially in a year a more? Was cool. Then, walked to Abotsford convent. Met Eleanor and took a stroll. Bumped into Jason and he let us into some cool spaces. One had these beautiful stain glass windows. So shiok. Lovely to chat with Eleanor a while. She’s similarly unsure about Get Back. Had to rush off from that meet up to get back to yo-chi to meet Luyuan. I was flustered from walking all day and being late and looking like crap, so I was a bit less cool than I’d hope to have been. So great to meet an internet acquaintance again. Hadn’t done that in a while. They were super-cool. I told them again that I wish they’d do a podcast because I love their speaking voice. We had fro-yo, then walked to and around the cemetery. My phone and watch lost battery at this point so is got no credit in the fitness app for this walking. Hope I wasn’t too stalker-ish towards Luyuan - I had a lot of questions about things they’d posted about over the last couple of years. Haha. After parting from Luyuan, I walked another several kilometres back to the apartment. Got a 400 Gradi pizza from the Tribeca IGA because I thought I’d be too tired to go out for dinner on Victoria Street or to Hollywood Hill. Got home and realised that the apartment didn’t have an oven! I ate a bunch of chips and chocolate charged my phone and watch. Really sucked not having battery when I wanted to be out and about! I kind of forgot that one could sign-in manually at places, so I felt basically locked out of everywhere. Ha. Did some urban-swiping on the dating apps. Very different to the scene in Warrnambool. Interesting! Very nice day. Very grateful that such nice people took the time to meet up with me and hang out. Mood: 7.5. Energy: 7.

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