The date of my touch-down in the US has been moved from december 1 to december 13. Needed more time. And beach. Screw having a place to live. I wish I could take the Australians back with me . . . I've grown fond of being the foreigner, she whose accent draws comparisons to Cleetus the Slack-jawed Yokel and imitations of variable charm, the ( Read more... )

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I am still homeless. For now I am enjoying living like a vagabond. Yesterday we went to Sydney . . . ridiculously awesome. I've never been to such a big frickin city. We spent all of our time messing around Darling Harbour and shopping. I saw the opera house from the train . . . it is a much dingier grey in person, but fabulous nonetheless, ( Read more... )

Here I am in Australia. I am suspicious that I left the states at all, however. I suspect we have really been deposited in an obscure Australia Town in southern California. Except for the horribly long flight . . . wouldn't have been so horrible, since I met a cool exchange kid also on his way to Newcastle, and we had much to talk about, but I ( Read more... )

I am leaving the country in like a day. I have said goodbye to most everybody several times now, and people are probably wondering if I'm ever actually going to leave or if I just like the attention. Both are true. Yesterday I had a rather magnificent fall off of a curb (skinning the fuck out of all my extremities), which I will interpret not ( Read more... )

I want to update. I've wanted to write something since the last time I said anything, actually. My dilemma is always that I have too many things that I feel are important to relate, but nobody wants to read (or write) an 842-page journal entry, so I have to go through the trouble of sorting out what is most important and what is not and in the ( Read more... )

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Katrina and Joey threw me a surprise birthday thing Friday. Throwing a thing is more surprising when it happens not on your birthday :) Guess they knew what they were doing. I got to see people I haven't seen in a long while, and some people I see all the time . . . just made me wanna cry. I can't believe I was so unhappy earlier this year. I ( Read more... )

I may finally have a cell phone within the week! It would be nice to not worry about being stranded, or about crashing through a guardrail and rolling a few times into a ravine and being trapped in the contorted chassis of my car with no way of calling for help. But I shouldn't get my hopes up. Apparently my dad has been obsessive-compulsively ( Read more... )

PersephonE xViii: my gma has aligators in their pond ( Read more... )