So, leave it to me to make my last week in Australia extremely difficult, nearly unbearable and overall PAINFUL. I fell ill last Sunday. No big deal, didn't know why, but I figured I'd eaten something bad and thrown up - no biggie. Well, not only have I not eaten solid food since Sunday or kept anything in my system since then except for a ( Read more... )

Australians should really start leashing their dogs, and probably their children as well. I'm amazed that more Australian lap dogs and toddlers are not hit by cars. Seriously ( Read more... )

Why do Australians walk down the street the way that they do? No sense of direction or intended point of destination seems apparent. You can expect them to have their cell phones in hand as they suddenly stop in the middle of a crowded walk to send a text message, or laugh in response to one. They haven't quite mastered dealing with mobile ( Read more... )

Olivia and I just got back from Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast of Australia. Going there was probably one of the most impulsive and spontaneous things I've ever done. Olivia came over Wednesday afternoon and we were cold sitting around my house. Sydney is going through this switchover to Autumn that has been characterized by sudden ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, I had a wakeboarding epiphany on the Hawsbury River. It has been progressive and I have been getting better, but it was still sooo hard to stay up for long and to get comfortable. I had such limited control over where my board was headed and whether I could handle the wake, UNTIL Janiece brought up a seemingly minor but HUGE ( Read more... )

I just heard one of the funniest things I've heard in this country. After witnessing this, and going to see Dave Chappelle's Block Party, where many of the lines had the six of us Americans in stiches, but no one else in the theater laughing, I've realized something. Dorogitory terms are culture-specific ( Read more... )

She would like to see herself in the stars
But she knows
That her eyes are much too plain.
She's living out there,
She's running scared,
But pretending to know
All the rules so that
She can play his game.

~<3 M, the Lone Star

So, this living in a house stuff is kinda cool. Maybe a lot of you who went to schools that aren't in huge cities are used to having a big kitchen, since you can move off campus. But most of us up in the Manhattan area tend to live on campus (where we can afford housing) in dormish or small appartment settings. George Forman is often the extent ( Read more... )

People always say that break ups get easier in time - That you move on, move past it, forget. I don't think that's true ( Read more... )

So I'm WELL overdue for an update by now. A lot has happened but I won't summarize it all. That would bore me and I lived it. I'll give a top ten most dramatic/climactic episodes that have occurred lately ( Read more... )