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Well I've had a really good break so far.
Has been really relaxing and my god I have realised how stressed I was.
It has been a taxing year what with relationship breakups, un-breakups, re-breakups, tournament grinding (10 hour 12-15 table sessions mess you up), my first 100k downswing, going 0/13 at wsop, whilst splitting time amongst three continents, and countless cities...
I have been staying in a really nice little suburb of Melbourne called Yarraville, going to see movies most days, catching the train around to little cafes and restaurants while my friend runs errands, drinking wine at night, watching more movies etc.
I've seen a lot of good stuff and some bad stuff, but it has all been fun with good company.
One fun movie was 'Sukiyaki Western Django', a stupidly funny Japanese Western parody directed by Takashi Miike (usually really violent/intense director probably most known for Ichi the Killer, this is both his first movie in English and first straight up comedy), and probably the best thing I've seen was a really harrowing mafia related Italian film called Gomorrah, which was incredibly depressing but very well made (won the Grand Jury prize at Cannes).
I also saw Dark Knight again, which I found to be pretty similar the second time around - not *quite* satisfying for its own imperfections, but only because it set the bar so high for itself via all the elements at its disposal - it feels like it should be an all-time classic but only makes it 90% of the way, so it's still really awesome but just feels like it could be even better than it is despite being so much better than most things you could compare to it anyway.
But god I love Christian Bale and god Heath Ledger was so ****ing ridiculously, incomprehensibly, bizarrely good in that role and I doubt I will ever watch his scenes enough times.
Also saw The Bank Job, which the idea to go and see kind of started out as a joke because wtf, they seriously decided to just go with the title "The Bank Job"?
Could swear there are already ten movies called that.
It was entertaining-ish but it was annoying how they tried to push it as based on a true story, when the details about what actually happened in the specific heist (in the 70s in London, possibly involving scandalous pictures of Princess Margaret and possibly covered up by police) were/are very vague, but the characters in the film were so colourfully drawn, so they basically just imagined up a bunch of stuff and called it a true story.
I'd be hard-pressed to say it was 'good' but it was watchable.
Also got really wasted one night and watched X Men 2, haha. That was fun.
Plus we have churned through the first season and a bit of 30 Rock, which is definitely a funny show.
Haven't been eating quite as well as I planned to, mostly a lot of late night Asian food before or after movies, but it has definitely been a relaxing time.
I realised that I have been so tense for so long that it became normality. I need to start working out again properly when I get back home, and getting regular massages too.
If I get up in time tomorrow I'm gonna play the start of FTOPS and the Wednesday donkaments online, then at night I'm playing a $550 250K gtd live event at Crown.
Then on Friday night there is a "State of Origin" event where I will be representing Western Australia!
The format is six six-handed shootouts each made up of one player from each of the six australian states (territories don't make the cut!) and we get points based on finishes and then a state wins.
Kind of dumb, but should be fun I think.
I also have an interview in the latest AU Bluff Magazine, 3 pages! It's pretty sick actually seeing something like that in print.
Sending copies to my parents for sure.
To be honest I'm still not feeling entirely enthused about poker but I've been figuring a lot of stuff out about my life, and I'm going to start slowly playing again from tomorrow on. GL me!
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