Andrew Vladeck

Time Passes Slowly Down Under in Oz

Everything happens in slow motion for the Koala.  I got to see one up close outside of Sydney… too close.  Somehow, it all happened so fast.  It thought my ear was a eucalyptus leaf and took a nibble.  Now here I am I’m moving as slow as a koala.   It’s all i can do to eat, play, and go back to sleep.    The antidote is to kiss a dolphin… lucky for me since on our tour up the Gold Coast we stopped by Sea World and oddly we each got to do just that (to the same dolphin, poor girl).   You’d think the humane society of Australia should be notified.  All in a days work, I suppose.

But seriously, time passesss sllooooowly when you are on the road.   I don’t understand it exactly.   I don’t think it has anything to do with Einstein’s theory of relativity (which I don’t understand), though all this time flying 600 miles/hour around the world has probably slowed my internal clock by at least 4 seconds.    But all the indulgences of the tour have probably aged me by 5 years.  Keith Richards said recently that he’s spent “5 years playing music and 40 years waiting around.“   Word.  That is probably a generous estimate.  

Posted on 01/02/09 at 02:34PM | Filed under: blog