Monday, August 30, 2010
oh yeah...
I forgot to mention this in the last post...the video documenting Riley and my trip has been finished for a while, but due to the lack of good internet availability, I will have to wait until I get home to post it. Its worth the wait. Be jealous. Be very jealous.
11 months down, 1 to go...
I truly never thought this day would come. The day that I realize that I will be returning to the US of A in a few short, but high intensity weeks.
The main focus of life right now is lacrosse and work. Lacrosse is going very well. We beat the #1 team (whom the footscray lacrosse club has never beaten in its history) for our last game of the regular season, Following a bye week we had the first final. The system is really weird here. We were ranked #2 at the end of the season and the top 4 teams make the finals. On saturday, we played #1 Williamstown for the second time in two weeks. The #3 and #4 teams played just before us. The loser of #3 and #4 was eliminated from the finals. We had a tough loss in front of a couple thousand people, but luckily because of our position at #2, we live to fight another day.
This saturday we will play #3 Surrey Park. If we win that game we will play Williamstown in the Grand Final.
Its pretty odd playing against Williamstown. They are regarded the same way as Michigan is in the MCLA (not to mention their maize and blue kits). They hardly ever lose and they have the swagger to match. One of their stud players was an attackmen in the MLL for a while. To make it weirder, our colors are Green and White, so I feel like a certain degenerate little brother playing against someone in maize and blue. Wish us luck!
In terms of work, our business has doubled since the arrival of the FIRST GAP IN AUSTRALIA right across the hall. I don't know whether I am more baffled at the fact that GAP had not made the move to Australia, or the fact that people are actually excited about its arrival. I mean...sure, it stands for the pinnacle of western society (namely, middle-class America), but how long will it take them to realize that once people of my generation wore out our last pair of baggy carpenter jeans with bottom cuffs big enough to fit ski boots that aside from the casual pair of boxer briefs, GAP has become merely a faint memory into a time of braces, squeaky voices, unbridled awkwardness, and learning how to prevent run-on sentences in grammar school?
I am not pretending to be some master of fashion, but there is absolutely zero reason for there to be a 2 hour line just to have the ability, nay, the PRIVILEDGE to spend your hard earned dough on something that is backed by the the Anti-Christ Sarah Jessica Parker. Hopefully people will soon realize this and get their panties, or boxer briefs as the case may be, out of a bunch and stop causing mass hunger and caffeine induced hysteria.
Oh well, gotta keep food on the table, right?
My roommate Jack, and last surviving member of the original crew out here is leaving in a week. It would be pretty rough being more or less a one man wolf pack, but at least I have all of the lacrosse boys. They are a good time. Trust me. Trust. Me. Its pretty odd to think of all of the travelers that I have become close with whilst in Australia, I will be the last man standing. We all planned on doing a year, but for various reasons, people cut their time short. Screw that. One year. Count it.
That being said, I am extremely excited to get home. Just the thought of a refridgerator and pantry full of hearty snacks and meals is enough to warm my loins. Once we start to consider unlimited wireless internet and , MY GOD, ON DEMAND TELEVISION! HD TELEVISION! A COMFORTABLE BED! A CAR!!!!!!!!!!!! I repeat...a CAR!!!!, thats when I have to control myself in public. Football season...ugh.
These various voids in my life have inspired my to make a top 10 list of purely material things that I miss in order of importance:
1)Bountiful Supply of Food (at least while I am living at home)
2)Unlimited Wireless Internet
3)The Ability to Drive My Own Car...on the right side
4)Comcast Digital Cable...one can only watch some much cricket, scrubs, two and a half men, and simpsons re-runs
5)Chipotle/Taco Bell
6)Unlimited Cell Phone Data Usage on iPhone
7)American Sports in crystal clear 1080p (or whatever it is now)
8)My guitars...serious withdrawls
9)Cheap Beer
10)Cheap Beer from the Lantern
I'm sure the list could go on for ages, but I am being kicked out of this internet cafe and I need to scrape together some money for dinner.
Now to find a job...craike
The main focus of life right now is lacrosse and work. Lacrosse is going very well. We beat the #1 team (whom the footscray lacrosse club has never beaten in its history) for our last game of the regular season, Following a bye week we had the first final. The system is really weird here. We were ranked #2 at the end of the season and the top 4 teams make the finals. On saturday, we played #1 Williamstown for the second time in two weeks. The #3 and #4 teams played just before us. The loser of #3 and #4 was eliminated from the finals. We had a tough loss in front of a couple thousand people, but luckily because of our position at #2, we live to fight another day.
This saturday we will play #3 Surrey Park. If we win that game we will play Williamstown in the Grand Final.
Its pretty odd playing against Williamstown. They are regarded the same way as Michigan is in the MCLA (not to mention their maize and blue kits). They hardly ever lose and they have the swagger to match. One of their stud players was an attackmen in the MLL for a while. To make it weirder, our colors are Green and White, so I feel like a certain degenerate little brother playing against someone in maize and blue. Wish us luck!
In terms of work, our business has doubled since the arrival of the FIRST GAP IN AUSTRALIA right across the hall. I don't know whether I am more baffled at the fact that GAP had not made the move to Australia, or the fact that people are actually excited about its arrival. I mean...sure, it stands for the pinnacle of western society (namely, middle-class America), but how long will it take them to realize that once people of my generation wore out our last pair of baggy carpenter jeans with bottom cuffs big enough to fit ski boots that aside from the casual pair of boxer briefs, GAP has become merely a faint memory into a time of braces, squeaky voices, unbridled awkwardness, and learning how to prevent run-on sentences in grammar school?
I am not pretending to be some master of fashion, but there is absolutely zero reason for there to be a 2 hour line just to have the ability, nay, the PRIVILEDGE to spend your hard earned dough on something that is backed by the the Anti-Christ Sarah Jessica Parker. Hopefully people will soon realize this and get their panties, or boxer briefs as the case may be, out of a bunch and stop causing mass hunger and caffeine induced hysteria.
Oh well, gotta keep food on the table, right?
My roommate Jack, and last surviving member of the original crew out here is leaving in a week. It would be pretty rough being more or less a one man wolf pack, but at least I have all of the lacrosse boys. They are a good time. Trust me. Trust. Me. Its pretty odd to think of all of the travelers that I have become close with whilst in Australia, I will be the last man standing. We all planned on doing a year, but for various reasons, people cut their time short. Screw that. One year. Count it.
That being said, I am extremely excited to get home. Just the thought of a refridgerator and pantry full of hearty snacks and meals is enough to warm my loins. Once we start to consider unlimited wireless internet and , MY GOD, ON DEMAND TELEVISION! HD TELEVISION! A COMFORTABLE BED! A CAR!!!!!!!!!!!! I repeat...a CAR!!!!, thats when I have to control myself in public. Football season...ugh.
These various voids in my life have inspired my to make a top 10 list of purely material things that I miss in order of importance:
1)Bountiful Supply of Food (at least while I am living at home)
2)Unlimited Wireless Internet
3)The Ability to Drive My Own Car...on the right side
4)Comcast Digital Cable...one can only watch some much cricket, scrubs, two and a half men, and simpsons re-runs
5)Chipotle/Taco Bell
6)Unlimited Cell Phone Data Usage on iPhone
7)American Sports in crystal clear 1080p (or whatever it is now)
8)My guitars...serious withdrawls
9)Cheap Beer
10)Cheap Beer from the Lantern
I'm sure the list could go on for ages, but I am being kicked out of this internet cafe and I need to scrape together some money for dinner.
Now to find a job...craike
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