Winter brilliance: wait, its August.

So, this is where I write this blog tonight:

during a brilliant laser show...

and here it is when i wake up...

and in the middle of the day.

 

The semester has started, but, not without a glorious month off: 

That was Gracie, an 8-year-old female koala. Freaking. Awesome. It wouldn’t let go of me when I tried to give it back to home girl the koala-keeper. Few other pics:

 

a dingo ate your baby?!?

 

  

(largest lizard we never saw...)

TAZMANIAN DEVIL?!?

That was the koala sanctuary. Which is honestly one of the best times I’ve had since I’ve been here, the Aussie zoo is right up the street but takes an hour to get up there and requires LOTs of planning (Yates, 2012 - Alec and I have been planning now for 7 months, still can't find a time to get it done).

So, that was my month off as I am still awaiting a job from a professor-friend of mine as a research assistant – maybe I should have taken that ER job I interviewed for a few weeks ago. I’m gonna need a job.  

Now its 4 classes - which have me busy, but professors assigning papers due all at the same time has me busier. I’ve got a 9-5 class on Saturday this week, a bit lame, but it has to be done.

Girl roommate: Danielle. She's good people. She’s a long-island.ite going to school at UQ but getting her degree from a school in St. Louis. She has been quoted as saying the words:

“Its actually clean in here, I’m pleasantly surprised.”

So HA!!!

Anyway, you may notice I’m in a suit, yes. I took a challenge: A friend of mine said “guys look 45% hotter in suits” and another friend of mine overheard it...we took the challenge.

That was Thursday night, a brilliant evening with the Quest group of UQ. Friday was good times, our apartment through us a party down at the pool and I got to meet all the new students coming over for their first semester. The building manager didn’t even ask me why I haven’t paid rent; he was more concerned about my plans for a motorcycle.

Ah, nother funny story from the other day after leaving Indro shopping center (I went to have an eye appointment – I’m old). I was walking back to the bus stop in my normal attire, jeans a t.shirt, a backwards red-sox hat and a pair of sunglasses. Normal for me...

(Random Aussie guy on the street): Ya know mate, you wouldn’t need those sunnies if you turned your hat around.

(Me): Hm, well played.

So that’s the Aussie life that I didn’t really expect; koalas who won’t let go, suits, girl roommates (who say its clean in here), building managers talking bikes, and random aussie guys telling me I look tool-ish with a backwards hat. Seriously, that’s not cool here apparently. Whatever, neither is me saying “ya’ll.”

Live high, ya’ll.