august 28

7:23 p.m. nikki sp
my homecoming.
after all this time...

leaving canada dec 18. leaving cali dec 30. leaving seoul jan 14...

now i'll be leaving sydney aug 18. leaving hawaii aug 21. leaving cali aug 28.

thank goodness for stopovers. i'd go crazy if i had to endure day-long flights.


needless to say, i'm heaps excited about being home. i already have a few things in mind.
andrew, pete, lynn and lindsay have all offered to pick me up from the airport. however now that the date is actually figured out, lynn will be working and l-ho will still be in sask.
andrew said he'd book work off, and that sounds good to me. would be the most convenient seeing as he lives minutes away from the airport.
aaand, from picking me up, he wants to get inked!siiick. i'm sooo stoked.
granted it's still a little while into the future, but i've got my fingers crossed that this won't get all flaked up.

:D :D :D
EEEEE!
i'm very excited if it's not evident already.

i'm ready.

i was working on a new campaign again today and this british dude adam was the only other foreigner. he'd been in syd for about 5 months on a working holiday visa, but like me, he misses home.
sydney has run out of things to offer and it's time to go to a place that loves us. :D

yayyy.

now i gotta figure out what souvenirs to get everyone!

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one more month

2:26 p.m. nikki sp
left.

and then i'm gone. for the next while.
not sure when i'll be back... still gotta see if i can make it in l.a....see if i can crack the toronto market for a bit once more..

this last month, i'm gonna make the most of it.
got my single swedish mate annika who's very similar to me. and we're just gonna run amok.

still on the list of things i gotta do in the city before i leave:
-walk across the bridge
-keep going to mtv lair
-check out trash
-see more bands
-go to melbourne
-get souvenirs
-etc etc

i've become so shit at blogging and i apologize...

my sched is pretty sweet right now... chat with my friends till 5am, go to bed. wake up at 3pm.

i'm starting a new job next week where i have to be up from 6am and work till 3.... my sleeping hours. goddamn.
money is money. i need it.

god, this is depressing. i can;t write for shit right now.
annika and i have had some lovely adventures so far. walked from newtown to bondi jct, comparable to walking from high park to yonge/bloor maybe.
it was a lovely walk.
we've met two of the hottest aussie twin boys ever. and got seduced by them.

im quitting this until i actually have something to say and know how to say it.
loves!
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should i stay or should i go?

7:39 p.m. nikki sp
the situation:
-the earliest i can leave is aug 17
-the latest i can stay is aug 31
when should i go?

reasons why i should stay:
-it's winter time but it's still beautiful. 19 degree weather today. i reckon that's better than 40 degree toronto ass crack heat.
-i don't want to get caught up in the tv biz back home right now
-it's fun doing alco promotions here
-it costs $1800 return between syd and toronto. it could be a while before i save enough dosh to come back here so i might as well ride it out
-i live on the beach
-aussies are hott as. dayum. the more hetero ones at least.
-i have roomies here
-i haven't figured out what tattoo i wanna get next, and i don't want to leave without one
-im not ready to say goodbye to my mates here
-and i don't know if i'm ready to deal with gta boys yet

reasons why i should go:
-more job ops in toronto
-i miss my friends. heaps.
-i miss my bed
-i love summertime and long days
-summer festivals and cheap concerts
-canadian beer kills aussie beer
-i dont have to pay rent at home
-i might get bored and angsty on my off days in oz
-i have a coupla lads to set me straight
-i wont have time to get crunk with lynn otherwise, cuz she's staying clean during the semester


verdict:
no. fucking. clue.
i'll decide at the beginning of aug?

suggestions?
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happy canada day!

4:48 p.m. nikki sp
god i've sucked bullets at keeping up with this.

school's over, i'm pretty sure i've mentioned that. i'm so tired.


watching big brother. what a lazy sunday.

i could be at home, in canada. going up to the cottage with some mates for a long weekend drunkfest.

but nah. i'm in home in bondi, hungover and dragging my ass around all day, waiting for my canadian mates to get ready and drink some canadian beer.


so this is the view from my balcony. if you will notice, i have a nice panoramic view of bondi, and a nice glimpse of the pacific ocean. whenever i wake up in the middle of the night to use the toilet, i see the sun breaking through the midnight blue sky and i'm just so happy to be here.
i've said before, i'm saying it again - it's really funny that it's winter over here now. the last few days have been gorge - tshirt weather.
lynn tells me back home it;'s a humid 40 degrees, and as much as i love the heat, i can't deal with that. i remember last summer when i tried taking a walk one time, and i felt like i was gonna throw up.
ugh.
this week it's getting around 18 degrees again, hopefully that will keep up. i feel like this is a really lame entry cuz i am talking about weather. but it is a big part of the living here experience, facing winter in june/july.
i have a job interview tomoz morning. it's probably in my best interest not to get fucked up tonight. i really wanna have some fun with some new canadian mates, but i also really want this job. it's a receptionist position with a design/special fx firm. i'm on the fence about what to tell them about how long i'm staying here. foster's is hopefully gonna keep me busy, but... yeah i want to do something worthwhile here. the design company has some pretty sweet projects. so that will be alright to be involved with clients for that.
this will be the start of being visitor free. so at least i can have time to myself. i've been so busy lately.
tomoz, if nothing comes out of my job int (which i really hope isnt the case), i'm gonna jobhunt with annika, help her get a job.
she;s been a good friend here, met her on my bday, we've been chilling lately. she workes right around the corner from where i live so it's pretty convenient. and we're dealing with much of the same things right now.
yesterday she took me to a party held by another torontonian. heaps of canadians were there, so that was pretty much a canada day celebration, but i still wanna go out tonight. she lives in bondi too, so hopefully we can hang more.
ah. the waiting continues
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