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January 27, 2006
F@#$ the fruit....
So I've stumbled upon a job that does not involve fruit in any way whatsoever...which is a good thing cause I'm only now recovering from a rash that was courtesy of picking mangoes (which I haven't done in a week and a half). I'm working at a tree nursery....or what will become a tree nursery once we finish building it. It's pretty sweet work, making slightly more than fruit picking (like $0.41/h) and it's somewhat enjoyable. Doing all sorts of creative stuff like building and welding and using my hands.
Hopefully, I should be able to keep working there, making (and saving, fingers crossed) some money so I can head to New Zealand for a couple of weeks near the end of February.
I haven't really seen much of Australia yet, so it'll be a little weird to leave here, if only for a few weeks. As I thought about how much there still is to see here and how much time I've already spent working, it occurred to me that it wouldn't be ridiculous to just extend my visa and stay the 2nd year. I'm sure it would crush all of you back home to go without me for another year, but I keep on imagining my return as those people who time travel and come back to a world strange to them. I'm not saying that that much will change or that I'll change that much but I left as the last of my friends were finally leaving school or accepting their fate and joining the 9-5 zombie world. I don't want to come back to that. I prefer my brains intact not being eaten by some slave-zombie boss....yeah.....mmmm-kay!
Ok, lost it there for a second. But you can imagine if it was like that...yikes.
Who knows, many things can change in a few months so I'll probably write something in a few weeks that will completely contradict this. And that's alright....you know why?.....Cause this is my blog and my site and I reserve the right to be as hypocritical as I want.
"Sounds like somebody's got a case of the mondays!"
Fuck off, it's friday. I'm off to the pub for half price everything.
PS: Happy belated Australia Day...it was yesterday.
Posted by Dr.Unk at January 27, 2006 1:00 AM
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4 months and you've traveled how far? Lets see some outback, lets get down the coast. Buy a beater and drive -- stopping only to eat and surf.
Posted by: stashuk at January 29, 2006 11:22 PM
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