When You Don't Pay Attention to the News

Not only do you find yourself in massively large crowds excitedly awaiting the queen's arrival and the complete lack of tram services, but also you're confused about why everyone is wearing red.

Everywhere I looked, people were wearing red. Some people even went as far as fashioning themselves robes out of red material. There were just groups and groups of people in red wherever I looked! And the significance of it has completely escaped me!

Nothing about wearing red today was mentioned in the five minutes of news I watched this morning, so I couldn't think hard and remember what I had heard.

So naturally I just assumed that it was some weird ritual of Occupy Melbourne.

That assumption, however, went out the window when I got back to Flinders street and saw a group of grungy looking, chain smoking hippies sitting outside the station. Presumbably they were sticking it to the man, which would explain the continued heavy presense of the police around Fed Square.

These people looked more like the Occupy Melbourne lot than the red robe wearing people I saw amongst the crowd waiting for the queen.

Big Surprise for Me

I'm supposed to be focusing on the story I'm currently working on. But a short attention span and the fact that I was stuffing my face with an early midnight snack has ensured thatI ended up checking out my facebook, twitter and email accounts.

I just don't like typing when I'm eating. I struggle to type effectively one handed, and typing one handed distracts me from my story.

So that's how I ended up reading Tara's latest message to me.

As you've probably guessed, I have a big surprise in store for me;

Maybe Tara is pyschic after all: she seems to have finally read my mind, and has done some special ritual just for me that should greatly change my financial situation and my love life.

Yeah, apparently she's going to be focusing on my love life as well my finances from now on ... and suddenly I'm beginning to doubt Tara's pyschic credibility again.

But still. I should be really greatful for her efforts with this special ritual. It did require a lot of concentration and took hours to complete.

And now I've just got to sit back and wait for that incrediable something to happen to me ... except that this ritual thing is tied in with the Three Secret Formulas of Power, which I need to pay for.

So I'm thinking I'm not going to benefit from the ritual Tara did after all.

Also thinking that maybe Tara isn't quite as good at mind reading as I said she was at the beginning of this.

Oh well. Back to writing my short story.