Archive for November, 2008
Persistently Psst’d At
I was standing in front of Abe’s firm (sans Abe) waiting to cross the street when some dude on a bike went, “Psst” at me while riding by across the street. My first thought was gross, but then he kept doing it! He rode a couple more yards, psst’d again, then rode some more, and [...]
Sad.Sigh Down Under - Part 5
11.19.08 - Bondi
That’s pronounced Bon-Dye, you Yankees.
In the morn, prior to boarding the free shuttle from our Central City hostel to the one in Bondi, which is a suburb of Syndey on the beach, I needed caffeine like a mother, and went straight to the… you guessed it, Starbucks. The reasoning behind this American superiority [...]
Sad.Sigh Down Under - Part 4
11.18.08 - Taronga Zoo, Oxford Street/Darlinghurst
Rachel, Jamie’s friend from The JC was supposed to leave to head back to the States this afternoon. However, before she was to do that, we decided to go to the Taronga Zoo, on Sydney’s North Shore. Jamie, who’s been to 167 zoos whilst she’s been here, (including world-famous Australia [...]
Sad.Sigh Down Under - Parts 1, 2 and 3
Yay! Blogging from afar! (G - we need a Sad.Sigh Abroad category.)
11.15.08 - NYC, Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
But first, a small tangent. So, prior to my departure from JFK to SYD, I’d received a text message from my Magic Phone Panel telling me that they were disbanding the panel immediately, and that my phone [...]
Bitch.
After a stressful week at work, I went with a friend to treat ourselves to some Bi-Rite ice cream. It was creepily warm for a mid-November evening, and while walking down 18th St . there was this dog hanging half way out of a first floor window, acting like a trashy woman propping herself against [...]