A Blog-style blog
It’s been a while since I wrote one of those boring livejournal-esque blog posts that doesn’t contain any interesting information but tells all you readers what I had for breakfast, so here we go.
Lately I’ve been eating muesli for breakfast every day without fail. Work is going ok; it’s not the best job in the world but it’s certainly not the worst. There’s a good crowd of people there, I enjoy being on nights and the pay is decent, although it’s only now, after Christmas and New Years have taken their toll, that I’ve managed to start saving any money. I’m saving enough though; I reckon I will manage to avoid starvation and malnutrition through Asia. Thanks to all this money coming in and finally having a kitchen that isn’t shared with 200 people I’ve got back into cooking and I’m absolutely loving it. I’ve finally, after all these years, learned to make omelettes, and I’ve been trying to eat healthily, which has resulted in me losing about an inch off my waistline.
The Sydney festival has just arrived, which is a 3-week long culture binge throughout the city. On the opening night my friends and I headed down to The Domain, a big park in the city, to watch Paul Kelly and Bryan Wilson play on a stage of Glastonbury proportions. It was great to be in a festival environment again, I miss festivals.
This week I begged and borrowed to invest in a MacBook. It took me quite some time to convince myself that it was alright to own a laptop out here: my travels are supposed to be time away from my real life and computing certainly is a pretty primary aspect of my real world situation, but in Sydney I’m not travelling, I’m working, and my time here is often spent stuck at home, when my flatmates are watching the TV and none of my friends are around, so I needed myself some kind of entertainment. On top of that, I feel like I’m not doing anything even slightly intellectual or creative out here and a laptop allows me to exercise my brain. It feels nice to be able to write stuff and not have to worry about the timer ticking down in the corner of the screen. I’m very happy with my MacBook so far. Everything about this machine impresses me, from the way you install stuff to the flexibility of the WiFi access, to the sexy Leopard features like stacks and spaces. Top job. The only problem is, the cafe down the road that offers free WiFi is closed until the 18th January so I still have to go all the way into the city to get online.
I’ve met quite a few good friends since I’ve been out here, and they’re almost all from the UK, which was not intentional and if they weren’t so awesome I’d be a bit upset about it. Recently we had a bit of a dinner party for Hamish’s birthday, and coming up is a cocktail party hosted by myself and James. I feel so civilised.
My new year’s resolutions, by the way, are to get home, learn more trivia, and cement my place in history. I’ve also decided to start trying to write something every week, but don’t hold your breath on that one, as I’m notoriously bad at writing.