Rain

Finally feeling better. My throat still likes to flare up now and then, but eating has now gone from tolerable to almost enjoyable again. No longer do I think a series of knives pressing themselves into the back of my mouth.

That lovely image aside, I spent the first full week of summer vacation at work. I'm still on the fence on what to do: either work my butt off and see less of Australia, or take it somewhat easy and go to the beach every weekend. My initial thoughts are to choose the latter. Heck, you only live in Australia once. I don't want to waste that working at a Legal Publishing House 50 hours a week. 40 should suffice. And I've had thoughts of trying to pick up a bar job on the side, but I don't need to work myself to death.

Home is now a little less than a month away. I'm very excited about this. Despite the fact that I'll be going from a warm, summer climate, into the freezing cold of the Eastern US, I can't wait to see friends and family. A level of uncertainty of where I'll be has me a bit worried, but I'll figure out.

One interesting event of the week: I went to an NBL game this week. The NBL is the Australian professional league; not bad, but no mind blowing skill on display. Midway through the first quarter, my friends Eamonn and Paolo noticed that the stars of the And 1 Mix tape tour were courtside. Mainly they noticed the Professor, the white dude with a mad handle. Sitting next to him was Escalade, a 375 pound, 6-10 black guy. He was huge. So we yelled to the Professor, and asked for a pic. He gave us the head nod to come down. Seemed like a nice guy. So Eamonn and Paolo got their pictures taken with the Professor. I didn't really care all that much to be honest. The game itself was exciting. Sydney won in the end, beating Brisbane, the defending champions. At the end of the game we ran into more of the And 1 guys. All in all, a cool night, although I wish I knew more about the mix tape tour.

Time to go and relax. Took the day off. It's been raining the last two weeks here. Not so much fun.