quick message:
I am here.
I am safe.
I am loving it.
It's hot.
Scuba diving on the reef on Monday.
Will write more tomorrow when I have more time at a computer.
xo
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
at least the american dollar is worth more somewhere
Here is a link to how the american dollar compares to the Australian dollar. Thank god there is still one place out there where the American dollar is worth more... knock on wood this lasts.
Also, I looked up the weather in Cairns to see what I can expect, and let's just say NH and Cairns are about as opposite as possible. Today (nov 23rd) in NH it was less than 20 degrees when I woke up with a high wind chill. Cairns by comparison is currently 79 degrees with 94% humidity, and it is only 3 am there (on the 24th). So you can only imagine how hot it will get later on into the day.
I really need to work on my celsius vs farenheit conversion skills.
Friday, November 21, 2008
special edition, guest contributor
So about one week ago, I received one of the best e-mails I have ever gotten. My friend Steve from college who also lived near me in the Dirty Jers wrote the following and sent it to a group of about 6 of us. You can imagine the banter that went between the 6 of us for the remainder of the day.
*side note (sorry steve) I had to take out last names.
*side note number 2. You will see Steve calls me Sernah Jernowitz- This nickname goes back many years to one drunken college night. Long story, not going to get into it here.
Sernah Jernowitz,
Your gchat away message today shows me that you only have 6 days left in the greatest state in the country, New Jersey. Therefore, it is clearly crunch time because if we do not see you within the next 6 days, we will never see you again...
This is because you are moving to Australia, where you will find some Aussie guy who loves American chicks who sweeps you off your feet. You will spend many a glorious month together, until of course your visa expires. You will apply for reinstatement because you love Georgie, but they will deny you on the grounds that you had quit your job 6 months prior because you wanted to spend all of your time with said Aussie man. After being denied your visa, you and Georgie will run away from authorities, leading them on a wild goose chase through the outback, all in the name of love.
After running for many years, the both of you finally decide it's time to leave Australia, so that you are not living your lives of love and lust on the run forever. You will swim off the island and relocate to India, where you will integrate yourself into the culture and become an official curry monster. There will be no returning to America for you at this point, as the Australians will have notified the US government of your at-large, fugitive status, and if you ever show up at an American port-of-call, you will be arrested on-site.
Georgie and you will spend around 30 years in India (you will be about 60 at this point). It is at this time where you decide that you need to see your mommy, who is obviously quite old at this point. You tell her about your inability to set foot on American soil, so she must visit you. So your mother makes the long trip to India to see you, knowing of course she has to do this under a cloak of secrecy, or else the authorities may catch on to what is happening and get you finally. Her only flight, however, is a connecting flight through Japan. The japanese have been working long and hard to find you because of their alliance with the Australians, and when they notice the mother of Sernah Jernowitz passing through on her way to India, they follow her right to you. It is here that the end of the line begins.
As your mother enters your hut and you see her for the first time in 36 years, you are immediately overtaken by an Australian swat team, who had been permitted to enter the country by the Indian government so they could nab their fugitive. Georgie doesn't want to let you go without a fight, so he pulls out the gun you never knew he had and begins firing on the swat members. He manages to get you away from the one officer who has you in custody, and the 3 of you escape into the woods.
The swat team doesn't give up, however, and they chase you deep into the Indian jungle, weary of the threat Georgie poses to them (it is during this escape that you learn that Georgie is an ex-Aussie special forces soldier, who was a hired government hitman made to kill many evil dignitaries throughout the world who threaten the Aussie way). This troubles you, but also makes you feel a little safer since he knows his way around a war-torn jungle. The 3 of you, however, make the fatal mistake of making camp for too long, and the swat members catch up one night. In a glorious firefight where Georgie tries his best to keep you from them, he is fatally wounded. As you hold him in your arms, dirt covering your face, mother at your side, he tells you that he was in fact hired by an American to meet you in Australia, "fall in love" with you, and bring you back to America, because the man who hired Georgie never wanted you to leave in the first place. This American, in fact, is the one who loves you. But of course, Georgie fell in love with you and plan went to shit.
With his last dying breathe, Georgie professes his love to you, regrets how this whole thing ended, and reveals the name of the American who hired him to bring you back because he wanted you more than anything else in this world... Brandon. Georgie passes, and you look to the sky and scream, your mother attempting to console you, but ultimately failing. The Australian swat team finally gets you, and they bring you back to Australia, where you and your mother spend the rest of your days in a maximum security prison in the heart of the Australian desert. There is no escape, there is no hope. There is only the memories, and the thoughts of what might have been had Brandon just had the balls to tell you to never leave, because everything you had ever wanted and hoped for was closer than you thought....
So since I can tell the future and know this is all going to happen, we need to see you within the next 6 days. When are you free to hang?
*side note (sorry steve) I had to take out last names.
*side note number 2. You will see Steve calls me Sernah Jernowitz- This nickname goes back many years to one drunken college night. Long story, not going to get into it here.
So here it is... enjoy the guest contribution edition.
Sernah Jernowitz,
Your gchat away message today shows me that you only have 6 days left in the greatest state in the country, New Jersey. Therefore, it is clearly crunch time because if we do not see you within the next 6 days, we will never see you again...
This is because you are moving to Australia, where you will find some Aussie guy who loves American chicks who sweeps you off your feet. You will spend many a glorious month together, until of course your visa expires. You will apply for reinstatement because you love Georgie, but they will deny you on the grounds that you had quit your job 6 months prior because you wanted to spend all of your time with said Aussie man. After being denied your visa, you and Georgie will run away from authorities, leading them on a wild goose chase through the outback, all in the name of love.
After running for many years, the both of you finally decide it's time to leave Australia, so that you are not living your lives of love and lust on the run forever. You will swim off the island and relocate to India, where you will integrate yourself into the culture and become an official curry monster. There will be no returning to America for you at this point, as the Australians will have notified the US government of your at-large, fugitive status, and if you ever show up at an American port-of-call, you will be arrested on-site.
Georgie and you will spend around 30 years in India (you will be about 60 at this point). It is at this time where you decide that you need to see your mommy, who is obviously quite old at this point. You tell her about your inability to set foot on American soil, so she must visit you. So your mother makes the long trip to India to see you, knowing of course she has to do this under a cloak of secrecy, or else the authorities may catch on to what is happening and get you finally. Her only flight, however, is a connecting flight through Japan. The japanese have been working long and hard to find you because of their alliance with the Australians, and when they notice the mother of Sernah Jernowitz passing through on her way to India, they follow her right to you. It is here that the end of the line begins.
As your mother enters your hut and you see her for the first time in 36 years, you are immediately overtaken by an Australian swat team, who had been permitted to enter the country by the Indian government so they could nab their fugitive. Georgie doesn't want to let you go without a fight, so he pulls out the gun you never knew he had and begins firing on the swat members. He manages to get you away from the one officer who has you in custody, and the 3 of you escape into the woods.
The swat team doesn't give up, however, and they chase you deep into the Indian jungle, weary of the threat Georgie poses to them (it is during this escape that you learn that Georgie is an ex-Aussie special forces soldier, who was a hired government hitman made to kill many evil dignitaries throughout the world who threaten the Aussie way). This troubles you, but also makes you feel a little safer since he knows his way around a war-torn jungle. The 3 of you, however, make the fatal mistake of making camp for too long, and the swat members catch up one night. In a glorious firefight where Georgie tries his best to keep you from them, he is fatally wounded. As you hold him in your arms, dirt covering your face, mother at your side, he tells you that he was in fact hired by an American to meet you in Australia, "fall in love" with you, and bring you back to America, because the man who hired Georgie never wanted you to leave in the first place. This American, in fact, is the one who loves you. But of course, Georgie fell in love with you and plan went to shit.
With his last dying breathe, Georgie professes his love to you, regrets how this whole thing ended, and reveals the name of the American who hired him to bring you back because he wanted you more than anything else in this world... Brandon. Georgie passes, and you look to the sky and scream, your mother attempting to console you, but ultimately failing. The Australian swat team finally gets you, and they bring you back to Australia, where you and your mother spend the rest of your days in a maximum security prison in the heart of the Australian desert. There is no escape, there is no hope. There is only the memories, and the thoughts of what might have been had Brandon just had the balls to tell you to never leave, because everything you had ever wanted and hoped for was closer than you thought....
So since I can tell the future and know this is all going to happen, we need to see you within the next 6 days. When are you free to hang?
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
NH is cold
I got to NH yesterday night, after a long day packing up all my stuff. I felt like I was back in college again, staying up until the wee hours of the morning cramming for a test. Only this time it was packing up my entire life into boxes, bags, and little crates. (and of course some odds and ends that just didn't seem to fit anywhere). Mom and Mike got to my apt around 8:30 with a u-haul in tow. We were in NH and everything was unpacked in my dad's basement by just after 5:30. Not bad all said and done. NH is cold. I put all my winter clothes is boxes figuring I wont need them in tropical Australia, but shizza...it is below freezing, and was actually snowing when we left Hoboken yesterday.
I officially have 6 days to get everything organized and cross off my never-ending to do list.
Have I mentioned that I am pretty convinced I'm going to meet my future husband down under? Yeah- I don't know why, maybe it's those hot aussie accents. Regardless, Im pretty sure I'm going to fall in love with anyone and everyone who will talk to me in that "g'day mate", "shrimp of the barbie", "roo", and "footy", aussie lingo. Yeah, already in love just thinking about it. :)
I officially have 6 days to get everything organized and cross off my never-ending to do list.
Have I mentioned that I am pretty convinced I'm going to meet my future husband down under? Yeah- I don't know why, maybe it's those hot aussie accents. Regardless, Im pretty sure I'm going to fall in love with anyone and everyone who will talk to me in that "g'day mate", "shrimp of the barbie", "roo", and "footy", aussie lingo. Yeah, already in love just thinking about it. :)
Friday, November 14, 2008
procrastination is my middle name.
My mom and her boyfriend Mike are coming to Hoboken to pick me and my furniture up and move me back to NH in only 4 days. Have I started packing yet? No. Procrastination is my middle name. I look around my room and see everything I have to do, yet I can't seem to bring myself to do it. I hate packing, I hate unpacking, I wish I had someone to pack for me. I still cant not believe I am leaving Hoboken so soon, I leave for LA in 11 days and Australia in 13 days. Two weeks from yesterday.
I am trying to say goodbye to everyone around here before I take off but it is more difficult than one would think. I didn't realize how many different groups of friends I have here. I guess people will just have to come and visit me down under.
Okay, I think it's time for me to buck up and stop procrastinating. Time to pack, and get organized. hah- right.
I am trying to say goodbye to everyone around here before I take off but it is more difficult than one would think. I didn't realize how many different groups of friends I have here. I guess people will just have to come and visit me down under.
Okay, I think it's time for me to buck up and stop procrastinating. Time to pack, and get organized. hah- right.
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