http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth From NYC to Sydney Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:38:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en People from home are finding it hard to believe me now, at the end of January, but I miss the seasons.  It's so bizarro to have seasons that not only run backward, but also don't really happen at full strength.  Basically, the way it seems to me after one year ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=179 I've been busy!  The summer (winter... whatever that thing was that's over now... you know, before I went to school, back when I did lots of laundry) was really lazy, but the past few months have been one thing after another.  We ended up in New Zealand last month, and ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=170 By now, everyone's heard about the dust storm.  Apparently, this sort of thing never happens - I saw a quote in the news that one guy said he saw one about 40 years ago in Adelaide, and my husband said he had never seen or heard of this happening before.  ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=164 So it's spring, and our bathroom window is permanently jammed open, and there are no screens on the windows in our apartment, here in Australia. The other day I came home from class to find this guy perched on the chair in our bathroom: [caption id="attachment_155" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Furrier in person."][/caption] You can ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=154 We are looking for an apartment.  This is our fourth week of looking, and so far I'd say we've seen about 15-20 apartments.  The way they do it here is like this - the landlord contracts out to a real estate company who holds an inspection (open house), which usually ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=152 So T and I won these tickets to see a matinee of the Australian production of Avenue Q.  Basically, the day we landed in Sydney from the US a couple of weeks ago, we found a copy of this free weekly magazine called The Brag and it had this thing ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=147 1) I found a new band I like called the Avett Brothers.  I only have one of their albums (Emotionalism) but I can't stop listening to it.  Check it out if you like catchy tunes on guitars, or folkish poppy rocky bluegrass, or things like that. 2) I came across this ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=145 We got back last week from a two-week trip back to the US to visit my family.  It was such a great idea - someone said "This trip will help you realize this didn't all disappear" and I don't know if that was it, but it definitely helped me feel ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=142 On Saturday, T and I took the ferry up to Manly on the north shore of Sydney Harbour, with the vague idea of possibly doing a hike that's in one of our guidebooks.  First we walked around Manly itself, which is just a little "village" of shops next to a ... http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=126 How am I supposed to find a job when employers are posting their job listings in another dimension? http://dr4g0n.net/gonesouth/?p=120