The second month went by far faster than the first. Time is flying. The numbers:
- 0 times getting lost
- 5 visitors
- 17 nights with company and only 11 nights alone!
- 1 obsession with Isaac Newton
- 1 weekend with a car
- 0 accidents while driving on the left-side of the road!
- LOTS of rain
- 1 production at the Sydney Opera House
- 0 Nutella consumption. If you only knew what a feat this really is!
- 34 hours in Melbourne
- 1 visit to a museum at a rest stop
- 896 times my blog has been viewed
- 850 of those viewings which were done by my parents
- 0 morning teas (this is very disappointing)
- 20 times getting my credit card rejected
- 4 times in a row having my credit card rejected at McDonalds for a $4 sandwich!
- 1 season of “Everybody Loves Raymond” (that show is fantastic)
- 1 work dinner where I spent the evening with drunk co-workers. Alcohol smells so disgusting.
- 2 paintings by Picasso
- 1 fireside with a random guy who was also in town visiting
- 2 types of kangaroo eaten (on pizza and teppan)
- 15 jokes about the outbreak that would occur were they to serve up koala meat like they do kangaroo and crocodile – we even saw emu meat. Eww.
- 1 trip to Sydney
- 8 jobs applied to in D.C. (for next summer)
- 3 girls from law school whom I had never really spent time with before but who came and visited and I realized what a fool I was for not getting to know them earlier
- 1 kayaking trip
- 2 round trip flights
- 1 realization after my first visitor left that for a month I had been continually BORED, leading to:
- 1 realization that I am, and forever will be, an extrovert and that as my brother Russell once said “the good thing about being an introvert is that you don’t need other people to not be bored, but you can still be social”
- 2 phone calls from JACKIE ALLEN TATEISHI! I really doubted that I would receive any phone calls this summer from anyone but my parents. But my previous roommate – now wife of Isaku Tateishi - called me up last night. I love you, Jackie!
- 1 realization that I prefer non-fiction to fiction. I just realized this on Monday when I was figuring out which books I still wanted to read before I go back to the states, and they are all non-fiction. And that most of the books I have already read were non-fiction. I’ve tried to read a few fictional books, but they are all either sketchy or boring (or both). The exceptions being, of course, Harry Potter and anything Jane Austen. Brilliant!
- I stopped converting things into American dollars.
Things to look forward to:
- 1 trip to New Zealand
- 1 trip to the Great Barrier Reef
- 3 visitors
- More driving on the left-hand side of the road
- 1 flight back to the states with my MOM!!
- The Vomitron. It’s gonna happen. And I get a free t-shirt!
Refresher from my first month:
- 1 month of solitude
- 2 packages of rice
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