Fleeing the Country
Here are the reasons I decided to go. You can come up with your own excuses.

Planning, Planning, Worrying, and More Planning
Packing, booking flights, arranging transportation, and saying goodbye to friends isn't the easiest part of the journey. Once you get through it though, you feel like a new person, ready for a fresh start.

Takeoff and Landing, Finally
Airport food: $25. Magazines to keep you busy: $7. Travel sized toothbrush and toothpaste for the plane: $4.50. Seeing the Opera House out your window and realizing that all of your planning and stressing out and penny-pinching has paid off big time: You know how the commercial goes.

Unemployed and Loving It
That's right. I'm spending money, although frugally, and I have no income. At this rate I'll be broke in another couple of weeks, but hey, poverty is the backpacker's badge of honor.

Psycho Seagulls, Soccer Fever, and Working For the City
I wouldn’t believe that three weeks have gone by already, except I have the laundry to prove it. And what’s with nobody owning a clothes dryer over here? I just hate when my jeans get all crunchy from air drying.

The Secret Life of Notebook Girl
"You'll never guess my secret identityyyyyy..." Horrid show. But that's me, mediocre secretary by day, and undercover Internet reporter, well, also by day.

Of Biker Babes and Couch Potatoes
You know you feel at home in a place when big plans for the day include brunch within a few blocks of your house, followed by an afternoon of tv and napping. All well-deserved after a night of burning rubber through the city streets.

Letters Home
Maybe posting personal emails is an innovative way to share my experiences with a large audience, while maintaining a sense of intimacy. Maybe I'm just being lazy, using a mish mash of my correspondence as this week's entry. Yeah, I'd go with that one.

Office Space
Of all the dry, dull, mind-numbing temp jobs in Sydney, I got this one. If only we could wear some flair to liven things up.

Into the Mailbag
This is going to be enjoyable. Reading other people's mail is exciting because it's like snooping, and it's incredible how many people make idiots out of themselves on paper. Enter the worm threshold.