Well it looks like it's back to the good old jacked up sleeping schedule I had so lovingly adopted before I headed Down Under. It's 6:45AM right now and I still haven't gone to bed. I've spend the better part of the day scouring Craigslist and design websites for jobs. Much to my surprise, there isn't a damn thing listed. On the plus side ( Read more... )

So you may or may not know this but at some point in the near future (preferably after I start making some money again), Antarctica is on my list of "must do's" for travel. I happened across this article tonight on Yahoo, seemingly the only media source I get my news from. Not sure if this is a good thing. Anywho. Check it out ( Read more... )

So I realize there's a considerable gap in my travel entries here but the past three weeks have been rather jam packed. They've also been nothing short of fantastic. Shortly before I hopped on a plane out of Australia (wiping tear away) I did a week long venture through the outback. Adelaide (southern coast of Oz) up to Alice Springs (smack dab ( Read more... )

If there's one thing I've been eternally grateful for in the seven months I've spent in Australia it was being able to hang out with the locales. While I've met tons of fantastic people in the hostels, my goal was not to come to Australia and hang out with drunken backpackers. I'd been very fortunate to work at Creata (I'm pretty sure I was the ( Read more... )

You know how I was whining in my last journal entry about how I thought I'd come to Brisbane prematurely and how that wasn't the best of ideas? Yeah, well, I was completely wrong about that. Like the seemingly endless bits of odd luck I've had here in Australia, where I thought one thing was a bad idea, it actually ended up being a blessing ( Read more... )

And people wonder why I DON'T want to teach children ( Read more... )

Once again, I've slacked on the updates. But wow, what a couple of weeks it's been. First and foremost, my last week in Sydney was fantastic. Most notably was finally getting my first surfing lesson and checking out an opera (yes, at the House) with Marcel, my Swiss dive buddy from my trip up in Cairns. Marcel, along with Melissa from the dive ( Read more... )

Well, what was supposed to be a fun filled weekend down in the supposedly lovely Jervis Bay has turned into a rather uneventful weekend of cleaning, freelance work, and general lounging around. I got a call two days ago from the dive centre saying that the weekend dive trip would most likely be canceled due to adverse weather conditions. No boats ( Read more... )

Wow. Tropic Thunder confirmed that not only can Ben Stiller not act, he can't direct either. Really wish I hadn't spent $11.50 to see that ( Read more... )

I should have done this update weeks ago. But whatever. The past few weeks haven't exactly been organized so why should my Livejournal updates be any different ( Read more... )