Last night here and me and the boyfriend will be going out in style with an evening of drinking before a 10 AM flight. Wee.

The last three weeks have brought me to a new country, three new cities, more drinking than my entire life combined (my god can the Australians drink, and are insistent on making anyone nearby respond in kind; I'm also certain alcohol is stronger here than in the US. ), eighty-six photos on flickr (at the moment of this posting) and plenty of making out.

It also seems to have cemented an earlier consideration, made a few months ago actually, as to the possibility of moving to Sydney.

I have expressed on this site before both my tendency of boredom and my sense of picking up and running off someplace. My wanderlust. I think I have documented the behavior here once or twice, maybe? Anyway I've been in New York City over five years now. I got here not knowing anyone, homeless, broke, drifting. I'm at a peek higher than I've known in my entire life, with stability and insurance and prospects and happiness. It occurred to me recently, reflecting on a conversation I had with someone before I moved to NYC actually, about how most people can't make it last longer than their first year. Certainly that was the consensus before I made the trip, and it's with a bit of a grin that I make the decision, for myself, that I did indeed "make it."

So reaching the summit of the mountain has left me with a feeling of what next. I've been thinking of other places to go, like London for starters, but there are some conveniences to Sydney that the boyfriend and I feel like we can use to our advantage.

So the plan at the moment is by the end of the year, I will be up and trans-located for approximately one year to live in Sydney. My lease in my apartment doesn't go up until September anyway, so that puts a bit of a cap on things. He and I both acknowledge that it's a smidge early to be planning on living together (though it being after December is a nice cushion) so that's not so much the plan as it is the anticipation. The company I work for has offices in Sydney (and Melbourne!) so it's very plausible I can get transferred easily enough.

It's exciting, and I'm happy about it. I will miss NYC, though nothing precludes me coming back. I do have to figure out what to do with my furniture now though. And what to tell my parents….

In parting, before I go take a shower and put on my gay pants, I leave a link to a video taken by a friend of mine from a SL-related party in the beginning of April. We were sooooo drunk, and I kissed a girl! Once I can figure out how to directly host the video I'll replace it with a clip below.

July 03, 2008 update:

As promised, here's a direct copy of the aforementioned video:

Get the latest version of Flash if you see this for over 10 seconds.

26 April 2008 at 11:43 pm | 7 Comments »
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I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and had to replace my Monster plugin in the process, which wiped the previous images; once this was completed I discovered you have a much cooler avatar than me.

As soon as I can figure out how to steal it, it will be mine.

That is all.

23 April 2008 at 1:56 am | 3 Comments »
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Well I've been in Australia about two weeks now, and facing my last week of vacation. It's also going to be about the fourth week straight me and my boyfriend have been on top of one another constantly with no sort of break or absence.

The latter part I have to marvel at myself for, because not too long ago any sort of concept similar to that would have made me want to lock myself in the bathroom and be left alone to curl up and cry. Remarkably it's gone pretty well. We've had a couple of dust-ups, but they've actually been about legitimate things. Not resulting from my usual tendency to take the tiniest problem and amplify it to the point of absurdity in an effort to piss the other party off so they tell me to fuck off and vanish.

We've been getting along well, and having fun, and I guess it's in reflection of things like this where I really realize how much I've changed, grown, matured as a person.

Anyway I'm in the Melbourne airport now, about to get called for my flight back to Sydney. This is really an amazing country, and it surprises me how much of the architecture of the cities we've visited reminds me of New Orleans and the French Quarter. It almost made me a little nostalgic.

Oh and while I was in the airport today I finally managed to update Wordpress to 2.5; shockingly it only broke one plugin, which I was able to replace with something else.

That's it!

21 April 2008 at 7:26 pm | 1 Comment »
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• The Veronicas
  ("Hook Me Up")
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I go ooo ooo
you go ahh ahh
la la la la, la la la la
I can la la la la la la
I wanna wanna wanna get get get what I want, don't stop
gimme, gimme, gimme whatcha got got
cos I can't wait wait wait any more more more

don't even talk about the consequence
cos right now you're the only thing that's making any sense to me
and I don't give a damn what they say or what they think, think
cos you're the only one who's on my mind

I'll never ever let you leave me
I'll try to stop time forever
never wanna hear you say goodbye

I feel so untouched and I want you so much
that I just can't resist you
it's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now, need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
going crazy from the moment I met you

untouched
and I need you so much
see you, breathe you
I want to be you
ah la la la, ah la la la

you can take take take take take time time
to live live the way you gotta gotta live your life
give me, give me, give me all of you
don't be scared of seeing through the loneliness

I want it more more more
don't even think about what's right or wrong or wrong or right
cos in the end it's only you and me
and no one else is going to be around
to answer all the questions left behind
and you and I are meant to be

so even if the world falls down today
you still got me to hold you up up
and I would never let you down down

14 April 2008 at 12:12 pm | No Comments »
soundtrack

I really love Sydney.

13 April 2008 at 4:25 pm | 1 Comment »
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A quickish update of sorts, after a long, long string of neglect.

I am currently in a lounge in Los Angeles (my first time in California!) after completing a six hour flight from NYC, which was only 1/3 of my total flight to Sydney, Australia.

On my very first transcontinental flight, trip, vacation.

I am in present company with the previously mentioned Australian boyfriend, whose idea all of this was, and while six hours have passed without incident, the next fourteen or so before I touch ground again make baby pandas sad.

Anyway it'll be fun, and long. This will be my longest time away from (a) home ever. I'm certain my cats will have vomited on everything in spite.

7 April 2008 at 10:04 pm | 3 Comments »
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