Well, my new job started yesterday. Can't say I'm overly impressed with it, but hey, it's a paycheck. Plus, it's considerably better than my last employment endeavor so I'm very grateful for that. I've been thinking about it lately and it's really amazed me at how many job (and housing) stints I've had in Australia since I landed here back in ( Read more... )

Wow. I had no idea I was so insanely late for a post. But it looks like this one comes one full month after my last. Anyway. A lot has happened. For starters, I'm not in Sydney anymore. I'm in Cairns for a 4 day diving trek out to The Great Barrier Reef. This all happened relatively quickly for a number of reasons. One, I'm sick of my job- ( Read more... )

Quick recap here. I'm still in transition. I went from Manly, to Dee Why, to Stanmore. Stanmore is where I'm currently living with my buddy Danny, yet again. Danny is the Ozzie I lived with a couple of months ago in Glebe. He's also the one who's been gracious enough to drag me along to local pubs, introduce me to the music scene, play cricket ( Read more... )

In America it's TGIF for "Thank God It's Friday".

In Australia it's POETS for "Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday".

Okay, so the giant reflective bean in Millennium Park may not be quite as cool as an ancient temple in Mexico, but nonetheless, our hometown made the final cut ( Read more... )

I know it's been a while since I've done a post but sorry to say I don't have anything terribly new and exciting to report. I've spent the last three weeks working for a marketing company doing data base entry for 8 hours a day. Exciting stuff, lemme tell ya. The people are fantastic though and I will have to make a point of video taping one of ( Read more... )

The Australian entertainment business is a funny thing. Major motion picture releases, like Iron Man, come out at almost exactly the same time as they do back home (less the 15 hour time difference) while lesser known flicks like Spiderwick premiere almost a full month after it's release in The States. The overall movie going experience is pretty ( Read more... )

So tomorrow will mark stage three of Sydney for me. Well, the third (and hopefully final) living arrangement I've had down here. I'll be moving up to my newly acquired apartment in Manly. There is some good news with that, there is some bad news. Well, maybe it's all good news depending on how you look at it. I was all set to move in when my ( Read more... )

This post may be quick to follow my last one but I can't sleep, don't have a lot to do tomorrow, and am still quite excited over last night's events-the last couple of day's actually. I got a bit of work from the AIFS office on Wednesday (about 7 hours worth of filing mail to be exact), had a truly kick ass thai dinner, and then was informed by my ( Read more... )

Okay, as you all probably know, or may have observed at some point, I have a terrible fear of insects. Bugs, arachnids, worm-like things, I don't care. They're all clumped in a category of "Animals-Matt-Doesn't-Love-And-Destroys-On-Site ( Read more... )