VOlume II - a bunch of good 'ol ramblin

> Ah well, another week has past... and I am still in one piece! I've
> had a full week of work and man, it's been an incredible *adjusting
> experience! Imagine having to wake up every day at 8am to get to your
> 9am job... only to arrive at work at 9:30 OR even 10am... tragic.
>
> I have difficulty waking up in the mornings... I havent woke up at 8am
> since high school. I dont know how I ever did it! I dont even know
> how some of you guys do it every day! I think it's nuts! Waking up
> in the morning only to slouch around and jump in a shower that hardly
> wakes you... oh! AND speaking of showers.... Imagine getting out of
> bed (mind you, these houses do not have heat.. you need to buy a
> little heater just so you dont freeeze to death!) half asleep walking
> to a shower that's as cold as an outhouse... only to barely wake up
> and then jump out of the warmness only to be frozen AGAIN but now only
> it's double freezing because you're wet!!!! Now, that's every
> morning!!!!!!
>
> Moving on...
>
> I roll up to work at about 10 at the latest.. my drive there goes like
> this... I get to see Sydney in the morning! I see everything! The
> harbour, the harbour bridge, the Sydney tower - it's awesome... it's
> gorgeous! The sky is always clear! I can see sydney from nearly
> everywhere... even work! That's miles away.. so, on the drive, I
> pass the domestic and international airport not to mention, the ever
> imprortant American staple... Krispie Kreme!!! I now live closer to a
> Krispe Kreme than ever before! And, get this! They have a full
> working cappachino machine! Mocha, latte.. you name it, it's better
> than the *bucks!
>
> I've got a bunch of new toys to play with courtsey of my new job! I'm
> typing right now on a brand new iBook G4! This thing rocks! I never
> really played much with a Mac and always found them really confusing,
> but this one rocks! The desktop loops pictures that I tell it to...
> and it's full of fun programs!
> I'm all hooked up - photoshop, after effects... even Final Cut - I
> still think FCP sucks compared to avid... by far...
> I've got a new IPod! Cell phone that takes pics! Oh yeah, and my
> phone number is... 0414 333 256 - that's the cell - if you wanna call
> it goes like this 01161 414 333 256 - it's kinda expensive to call the
> cell, so you should just call my house phone, but i dont have that
> yet... I'll keep you posted - feel free to text me though :)
>
> I've been playing with other toys - there's this color grading system
> called nucoda - there's about 100 in the world... the whole system
> costs about 300,000 bucks. well, I gotta say... with those stats, why
> wouldnt I want to learn it!!! Instead of me being one in a thousand
> of editors, why not be one in a few hundred color graders!!! It's
> actually really awsome and I picked it up pretty well just playing
> with it today! I definately see it in the future!
>
> Oh yeah, I was just watching tv - they just showed a full blown sex
> scene from a movie... this place is nuts with their TV! Australian
> Idol is NOTHING like American Idol - there's NO live audience... no
> jib cam!!! No energy and all the people are just dorks! I watched it
> for about 5 minutes - saw that tere was NO tallent and then turned it
> right off... Aussie TV good news - for all you late night 9ers out
> there Australian "dancing with the stars" is coming!! the've got this
> whole AD promo going on right now... not much info, but it's
> coming!!!!
>
> Went to the beach last weekend - who would have thought that the beach
> was an actual topless beach right in Sydney! For all of you guys
> coming to visit Oz, remember that MANLY is topless... but, dont plan
> on coming to see some (ahem, cough) during June/July because they'll
> be all wrapped up!
>
> Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm going to be saving so much by living
> in Australia! I can get about half a cart of food for about 50 AUD!
> In the US, 50 USD is about... two bags, I can get about 6 or 7 bags
> for less!!!! It's cheap! And, I'm going to be saving some cash
> too... with taxes taken out, I make about 300 less than what I made at
> channel 9 - now, I dont have to pay for a car, gas, insurance,
> service... I've sold off all my debt... :) I'm sailin! :) I should
> finally be making some cash pretty soon!
>
> Anyway.. I guess that's all for now... I'm going to leave the open air
> markets for the next e mail - they're just great... you walk down Pitt
> street (you can see a little sliver of the harbour bridge though the
> buildings) and people just walk in the middle of the street and shop!
> It's so awesome - Oh yeah, OTC drugs consist of Codene so peeps out
> there that is illergic to it like me would have some fun!!!
>
> Like... I was buying this cold mecidine - the pharmisit asked me if I
> needed any help - I looked at her with it in my hand and was like,
> "um, where can i buy this?" She goes, "right here.. is this for you
> or for a friend." I look at her thinkin - Oh shit, they're going to
> take it away from me like they do in the US... and just like Homer
> would, I look at her and go, "for a friend." I think in my mind..
> DOH! then, she goes, 'Athsma? Hypertension?" I then say dumbly, "Oh
> no, we've been poppin these pills like candy all week... they're
> great!" Stupid tara.... she looks at me... then looks down at the
> drugs and slowlly rings me up... lol... oh well... :) I still got
> the drugs and they're still really great!
>
> I found two stores in Sydney with the same name 'Just Jeans' and 'Just
> Jeans' how unorigional... it got kinda confusing when i was shopping
> on thursday - i thought to myself, "wasnt i just there at just
> jeans... as my bag says... ooh hell no... i was down the street at
> just jeans... so confusing :)
>
> Yeah, I guess that's all for now....
>
> I guess for Volume III, I'll highlight how I work in the 'Magiros'
> compound and how 'the godfather' wont talk to my co-worker but will
> spend tons of time (every day) talking to me about how he hates
> America but it breeds good people and that it's a good thing that I
> got out to live in Australia when I did! :) That's going to take a
> lot of explainin... just imagine a bunch of Kennedy's but greek
> running around playing football in the backyard but only it's soccer
> and they're serving baclava!
>
> Alright, I'm out.... 5000!

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