Tickles Of Rambling

I could use a conversation with a stranger.

I think Cairo's streets are heavenly (in their very own Egyptian-heaven way) when no traffic is there to block the sight of the gorgeous asphalt, or prevent the mights of 4th gear.

I also think the new 'wave' of installing perfectly functioning street lights is awesome. I like street lights. I like it when there's too many of them, especially when they all suddenly decide to work in an overnight. That was the case with the main street in my neighborhood. There is one thing I do like about the district where I live. It is structured as one main-street, quite a long one, with streets swerving off of it from both sides. So, on the way home, I enjoy a clear horizon. As I get closer along that street the tip of the Great Pyramid starts to poke into the surface, where the clouds sometimes look like they're about to crash upon the front end of my car as I drive further.



It is best when the sun happens to be setting. Aaah, right in my face.

I have never crossed the border before, and I sure as hell am obsessed with doing that as soon as possible, and that is one other story I can't get out of my head. But anyhow, even though I have never been to any other country than ol' Egypt, so this thought would make sense since I don't have concrete experience, I still can never imagine living abroad for good. That in itself is very contradicting to my big travel-the-world plan. Again, maybe that is because I've never been anywhere else like I just said, but I have a feeling there's more than this to it. The reason why this kind of thoughts keeps re-appearing at the top of my head is that I received an application, a couple of days ago, for a one year exchange opportunity. The thing is, I look for these kinds of programs constantly, and this one had the simplest procedures, which is why it got me thinking I can travel before I know it. And so, whoa! There you fucking finally have it! it doesn't get any better with regards to the first hit in the great journey-to-be! a fully paid time to spend away from everything and everyone and everywhere I've ever known.
And it already feels like too damn much. Not that this would get me to reconsider, it's rather that I've never felt the concept more strongly than I did when I got this call for the scholarship. I'm not really going anywhere with this, I just needed to document that. Maybe I wanted to talk about that, too, with that stranger I'm already longing for.

The universe is winking at me. And I'm learning to wink back. I would like to believe we have a better understanding. And that is just as awesome as having that many street lights above your head. Maybe those clueless light poles even have something to do with the deal.

That was one piece of work year, to say the least. And as it comes to a wind-up I take my mental cup of tea to the room that sets itself around the same time of the year. Where the hot aroma of fresh mint fills the space where there used to be everything but silence. But this year, there is no screen and chair, rather boxes being prepared, to be sealed, to be moved out of Time, where I'm building all the highways.

Oh, mentioning those.

So, well, you count them up for me, universe!
Box by box.