I vote... you should too. In Australia, voting is compulsory... which is hands down one of my favorite topics when it comes to bragging rights of Australian citizenship. I love being part of a society where they force you to vote. You can skip out but if you get caught you cop a fine or (in rare instances) chucked in the clanger for a few days to learn you a lesson. Bet your ass I vote absentee from my land across seas and had no problem rocking...
In 13 weeks I've got a ticket back to Australia. Rather than count days I'm counting words and pages at the moment finishing 10 000 words here or 30 pages there. Having left the house I grew up in and be back in it after ten years living away, experiencing the environment is a spin out. There are notches on the bathroom door frame marking the inches I grew as a kid and the scent of the house is still somehow exactly the same, like cinnamon,...
I realize that my mucho-easy-on-the eye webpage does a fabulous job at masking it, but I've gotta come clean - I don't know jack about design (ha!). I also don't know jack about having a domain or reading the reports about hits this, pages that... Now and then I glance at numbers and graphs that in some language shed light on whether or not anyone is actually reading about my word-ly mission. But it's too hard and I have ADD. After seeking some...
The fact that I've missed Halloween for the six years preceding 2009 was completely redeemed in a fabulous back to back weekend of dope parties. The whole Friday night to Saturday night thing (30-31st) AND the fact that daylight savings got set back adding an EXTRA HOUR onto Halloween... who could ask for more? Seriously. Last night was a Wild West themed pow wow at my sister's... since myself and the one other indigenous American in residence...
I consider every human being my family... as hippy-esque as this might sound. At 31 years old, you can't change who you are. Putting this aside, we're still born into a particular circle. This time around my circle contains a Sicilian/Polish mother whose grandparents are literally straight off the boat and a German/Pommy dad whose family is a bit more of a mystery... but it's safe to say, we're generic Yanks... a European mix with interesting...