Day Seven: Wednesday

• Went to sleep at 5:00am
• Woke up at 10:00am
• Posted on Twitter
• Had a shower
• Realised it was way too hot for my planned outfit/costume
• Drank a can of Sprite
• Said, "Goodbye" to Joe Bowman who was sleeping on the couch
• Two 11-13 year old girls were walking really slowly in front of me with a fancy dog so I pretended to look in my bag until they had gone ahead
• Realised I had forgotten my phone
• Went back home
• Went to the bus stop
• Many, many people were wearing hats/carrying cooler bags/going to Motat/the zoo w/numerous assorted children
• Caught the 030 (not my preferred bus route)
•  Leant on some railing on K Rd
• Thought people might think I was an ATM scammer
• Met Isabelle
• Went to Nando's
• Took ages to eat my burger because I was trying to tell Isabelle exactly what I did on the last day of the first half of semester from when I woke up to when I called my mum to come and pick me up on Good Friday because there were no buses
• Burned my mouth a bit
• Went to the art gallery
• The woman on the desk laughed at Isabelle's student ID
• The people on the desk roster were called Pipi, Phillip, Ella and Geva
• Made lots of jokes about needing a degree in art history to work at that desk
• Got lost in the art gallery
• Saw lots of paintings in the 20th century exhibition
• Also saw lots of people with grey bobs/Prada glasses/coloured 3/4 pants/red toenails
• Reminded me a lot of Chloë Sevigny
• Spent a lot of time practicing all the artists' names in my head
• Thought the Auckland art gallery would be a really bad place to be in an earthquake
• Saw three paintings in a row with really dire captions related to artists' mothers dying/never leaving Manchester again/only painting the Mersey in Liverpool etc etc
• Really liked this one painting of Venice. Was really into the idea of going to Venice and painting something that wasn't scenic at all. 
• Isabelle made a face at me when I said that I'd been on a boat on the Rhein and I made a face at her when she said that her mother was going on holiday to Morocco with some old friends
• Spent a long time deciding on which postcards to get
• Went down to Fort Street to hold up one of the postcards which was a painting of Queen Street in 1917 (?) to try and compare it to now
• There were more Burger Kings now
• There were no dogs in the middle of the road now
• Looked for a birthday present for Lucy
• Decided not to get the rabbit shaped jelly mold or "sheepshagger" shot glass w/picture of a kiwi bumming a sheep
• Ate a Bubble O Bill
• The gum had gone all gross and I nearly spat it out on the Upper Queen St overpass
• Made a really bad decision to catch the 213X home
• Found out it stops 3 stops after my stop which isn't even that close to my house in the first place
• Listened to the whole of Nico's Chelsea Girls because I was too tired to take my iPod out of my bag
• When I got home Joe Bowman and my mum were laughing about something that had happened on Ellen this afternoon
• We all watched Shortland Street/2 Broke Girls/The Biggest Loser
• Decided not to e-mail Michael McClelland from my email address "cooguy99@gmail.com"
• Maté liked my song
• It was funny because I made that song after I'd just been talking to him about deciphering Grass Cannons lyrics/singing on the Symonds Street Bridge
• I was pleased

Jean Dubuffet Villa by the Road 1957