I am wholeheartedly unregretting my decision to take an impulse trip to NZ. I have been more productive than in some months in terms of getting my resume sorted, writing letters that need to be written, and at the same time I am finding myself calmer and less pressured ( Read more... )

A Google Ad I had the great fortune to meet had the following tagline:

"The best way to meet Asian Ladies. Top quality at affordable prices."

... I mean, I know there is a marrying-younger-Asian-women industry, but this is horrifically blatant. What is the price of a woman?

JOHN I AM GOING TO ARRIVE LATE DON'T PICK ME UP FROM THE AIRPORT ( Read more... )

I really do not like taking these 'on an empty stomach' antibiotics. It requires me to have an empty stomach twice a day, a most unnatural state.

I love having a see-through cat door. I can kneel down and easily see exactly who it is ringing my door bell and choose to ignore accordingly.

Back in Perth after a series of flight dramas, hopefully my luggage will be here soon.

I'm flying out of NYC tomorrow and arriving in Perth on Wednesday. Hoorah?

Vegas was brilliant, then I went to Tonopah, Nevada which was also great (and host to the Central Nevada Museum, a gold and silver rush museum which was pretty cool). I stayed in St George for way too much money, slept beside the road near Joseph, Utah and chatted to a great-great grandmother who is in her sixties (?!!), stayed at a motel mostly ( Read more... )

Vegas is crazy fun and incredibly cheap if you don't gamble and look around for the cheap food specials and the free and $1 drinks ( Read more... )

Rice and cinnamon drink is lovely.

Also, carnivorous plants are Baptists...who knew? We had a long conversation about religion together.