Change is Afoot
Again. I started this blog back in June 2002 under a different name on a different platform so that my friends in California could monitor my activities in New York. But the words have followed me to this. Another change and another reason to read. Now that I'm "out" to my supervisor, I can be "out" everywhere else.
Eight weeks from this minute, Meredith and I will be at LAX waiting for our flight to Sydney. I'm moving to Australia. Technically, for 12 months, I'll be traveling back and forth between Oz and "the States" as a tourist. It's how Meredith and I will prove our relationship. I'm sure there will be more on the bureaucracy of that process later.
In the meantime, this means that I am leaving the country. I am going to be with the woman of my dreams. I am going to learn how to speak Australian without drinking Foster's. I'm going to coo at the koalas and shriek to my imaginary death at the site of the continent's man-eating arachnids. Seriously, these things look at you like you're breakfast and if you get too close, they'll treat you like that.
We're going to live in Lismore, a small town near the northern coast of New South Wales. This is the town Meredith has been going to school in. And in just a few weeks, she'll be finished with a degree in nursing. That's right. I can get sick and be in good hands. This is also the same town that has just been declared a disaster zone because it was the hardest hit in the region by hail.
All hail...'snowballs' in Meredith's backyard as displayed by her friend Amanda.
And then at the beginning of 2009, Meredith and I will move down to Sydney. Every once in a while, one needs a break from the city. My next break comes eight weeks from today.
I hope to continue working on a freelance basis. That would be ideal over the other plan of eating rice to survive. Too bad I can't get paid for working on my book, a process that has come to a torturous crawl due to the fact that my aspirations for it far exceed my patience or perceived ability to achieve them. But we'll see.
Besides my book, and NaNoWriMo, I have this blog to start updating on a more regular basis. It will become an expat blog of sorts, joining the few I've been reading -- and have linked to in my handy sidebar. The topics might be similar to the ones I wrote about after first moving to New York. After all this city might as well be considered its own country. One that I'm going to be bidding farewell to very soon.
