Last day of pretending I worked in the city. It still felt strange being in the train and heading into the CBD in the morning, looking around at all the power-suits sitting around studiously ignoring each other.
I’d completely forgotten that there was the Grand Final parade at lunch time, heading out to walk around the block I ran smack into ten thousand people — two-thirds of them from interstate, since the players in the grand final are Port Adelaide and Brisbane Lions. Its amazing that I can manage to not realise that something this big is going on!
Hurrying down to Exhibition street in the evening for a tram home, the sunlight came streaming in under dark thunderclouds. A fantastic effect as it highlighted the construction cranes busy rebuilding the Great Southern Stand at the MCG. Turning around there were yet more cranes looming overhead, that entire end of the city seems to be being rebuilt
