Hotty McHotHot

The guys here wear suits to work. Hotness.

When in doubt, put more out. Words to live by when you're dropping anchor.

Um, I love this place. I can totally be a waitress and make just enough money to bum around all the beaches. Once upon a time, I said my toes looked like mini-twixes (post europe travel 2000). Today, it's appropriate to call them Tim Tams (http://www.arnotts.com.au/products/TimTam.aspx). The Sydney Children's Hospital is by Coogee Beach. I can be a peds nurse here too. So tempting...I think I'll defer grad school and move here for 6 months after the Chicago Marathon. I'm serious. Anyone else who wants to go, LB and I are planning on it.

I like being disconnect from work, chicago, the world. Probably b/c I'm having fun with my work mates. Don't know what's going on in the real world. No cell phone is ok too. Thank goodness for email and internet cafes. I need to check the email to get my daily bank balance.

I'm still feelin a little rocky from the yacht trip around Sydney Harbour. Found out I'm afraid of swimming in places I can't touch the ground. The "captain" let me use the rescue float while I swam around the boat. Funniest thing I heard yesterday on the boat:

"You take pictures of your sandwich but you don't have your camera out here?!"
-Manho Park

this is what is in store tomorrow

http://www.bridgeclimb.com/

 

ER and I are doing this on Thursday.

breaky

Oh man, it's so pretty here.  We just ate breaky at a cafe in Bondi Junction.  Last night we had dinner at some place you can see all the boats, the bridge, the Harbour.  I think I'm officially sunburned.  My chest and some of my neck/shoulder are red.  SPF 55 is on.  Peace out yo.

greetings

hey you guys,

greetings from the land down under.  was a long long flight.  saw oprah's boyfriend stedman on our flight to LA.  he didn't offer to pay for our $9 burritos at LAX so we opted for McD.  Sprawled out and swam in Bondi Beach.  Lovely weather.  Can't complain about anything.  QUite the opposite.  I've taken advantage of my 2 gig memory card and have been snapping pictures away.  I just ate a milo candy bar and a cadbury flake hybrid bar.  While I ogled at a hot local, i had these bags of goodies in my hand.  I know why we american's are "juicy" aka not thin.

love,
sweettoastedyellowcorn

J.Lo style

So this trip to Sydney is getting interesting.  There's talk that a yacht/boat in Sydney Harbor is now involved.  Should I start calling E.R. "J.Lo?"  Heheheh!

Gastroenteritis

My patients mom today got the bug that her kid has and is admitted for.  Holy shit.  Holy shit.  I hope I don't get this shit/puke bug.  I'm like alcohol swabbing EVERYTHING.  I just want to go home, shower, and decontaminate.

Spam count

Gmail Spam count 1/18/2007 18:44:  313

shop

you know you've shopped too much when you find an urban outfitters bag
with something and don't even remember purchasing it.

Big Day (with)Out

look, the killers, jet, violent femmes, the vines...will all be there.
it's SOLD OUT! shit. yuck. woops. missed it.

http://www.bigdayout.com/lineup/artists.php

Growth

I'm trying not to empty the spam folder for my gmail account. Want to watch it grow and see how large is LARGE. It's at 295 and emptied last around 2 weeks ago.

i'm a retard.

Last minute crap

Crap. I love that word. You don't have to get into any details when
someone asks, "What are you doing?." You say, "Just last minute
crap."

That's what I'm doing today and tomorrow, last minute crap.

* Laundry - pile of crap on my bedroom floor

* Call bank/credit card company - prevent the "oh crap. oh fuck"
moment when you find out your credit card is listed as stollen b/c you
live in chicago and some wanker (me) is using your mastercard in
sydney.

* Return your cable modem to some facility not so near by - Allows you
a few more bucks a month to be spent on crap

* Exchange a 2 gig memory card for my camera - Crap USA sold me the
wrong size card...fuck!!!

-sweetyellowcorn

Lucky Longhorns

http://www.utexas.edu/emergency/index.php

The University of Texas at Austin is CLOSED
as of Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 1:37 PM

Due to inclement weather conditions, The University of Texas at Austin will be closed all day Tuesday, Jan. 16. All events and activities are canceled.

 

 

 

 

Austin - a place where it snows and stuff

Congrats to the folks in Austin, Tx. They got snow. The city is basically shut down and lots of closed offices. Sigh, how nice. I would like to have a nice margarita from Guerro's. Throw in some of the Austin snow.

get off your ass

Don't forget to register...I have...2 other friends have...so do it.  It will be fun. 

 

http://www.shamrockshuffle.com/

age

Over the weekend, I talked to someone or some people about age and movies.  The movies and characters I love in Swingers, Singles, Reality Bites...they are younger than me. And I didn't know that Eddie Vedder had a cameo in Singles. How did I miss that? 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vedder

 

When the fuck did this all happen?  

 

SweetYellowDehydratedCorn.

tshirt

so we (travelling girls) were talking about what we have to bring back for the nurses who made schedule switches so we could go on this sydney trip.  the most annoying thing we can do is to take a picture of the 3 of us at the beach, make a tshirt with the picture blown up on the front and back...and give that to them.

 

Lame

My apologies for being so lame and not really writing much lately. I've been busy getting ready for the trip and turbo-applying to grad school. Shit, I hope I finish everything before I go. I just want to go. My suitcase has been this abstract art fixture on my bedroom floor.

Order

People at work are so annoyed by the countdown my travel mates and I make when we work together. I hate to be a tit but I can't help it. 7 more days.

FYI

Frank's closes at 4AM on Wednesdays...FYI

scorpian

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-070110scorpion,1,1361635.story?coll=chi-news-hed

A good chunk of my airline miles are with American Airlines. Hope to
never see a scorpian on my travels. Maybe AA should change their logo
to a scorpian or adopt it as the official mascot.

sydney

10 day countdown to start of Sydney Holiday 2007.

austin

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/something-in-the-air-meanwhile-out-west/

internet radio

http://www.zeilsteen.com/

if you have itunes...

les mis

I finished watching the movie Les Miserables this morning. I paused
the movie about 3/4 into it so I could meet up with friends. At
dinner, I told them that Cosette is going to mess everything up...and
don't tell me if I'm wrong.

Was I wrong. I loved the ending. Wow, 2 men set free..finally. Loved it.

it has got me

i'm working on some grad school stuff today.
but it has caught me. the what?
the winter germs.
i'm all stuffed up, throat sore, and i feel miserable.
i have no more call-in-sick days left until march.
i don't think i'll need to not go to work.
i'm just annoyed that i feel like crap.

sbux

The breakfast sandwiches at Starbucks stinks up the place. I feel
like I'm at Dunkin Donuts...no offense DD...I've always like you more.
Maybe a pannini grill will create less stink. There should be a
stink thermometer at some restaurants.

images of sugar plums danced in her head

My parents set up a nativity scene at their house every Christmas. In addition to the main players - Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, and the 3 Wise Men, this nativity scene includes various stable animals, a guy looking up at the sky, and a man sharpening a knife. These extras hijacked the box at Macy's a few years ago, strange enough.

Anyway, my sister and I love looking at the figures, the way thingsare arranged. We're slightly evil so we ALWAYS position the figure of the man sharpening the knife by an animal...Meat is back on the menu.

The Lede

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/

I've had fun reading this blog for the last few weeks. Check it out if you have a chance.

slacker nurse

Just what every one wants to hear...a slacker nurse.

 

Don't tell, but I'm making a list of things to pack for the Sydney trip.  I bought a book last night. 

 

I wonder if all the seats in public places have non-porous, plastic covering?  I've heard that Speedo's are the thing to wear.  Last night, I was told that an unnamed person had one on at work. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedo

Speedo is a swimsuit manufacturer that began on Bondi Beach near Sydney, Australia.

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil...saw it last night and loved it.  Edward Norton is so good and hot.  So I Googled the movie last night.  (Found out he's a uni buddy with Ron Livingston.)  The book is very different from the movie.  ( http://www.amazon.com/Painted-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140185992).  I don't want to give anything away.  The movie seems to end in the middle of the book.  I do want to read the book.  I know that Edward Norton spent 6 years trying to get this movie mad and is also the producer, so I'm sure he was true to the book.

elevator

Heard this morning on WBEZ that Todd Stroger no longer has a personal
elevator to "keep on schedule." Cook County is a better place.

Happy New Year! Finding a cab in Wicker Park was a little difficult. However, if we found one immediately, this gem would have been missed. This license plate was on a hearse.

Rob

Hey Rob,

I apologise for the mess I made by the kitchen-appliance-aisle-sale-section. I don't know what happened. A box of flatware fell on my forearm, somehow popped the top off my coffee cup, thus creating the orange-flavored coffee with light cream mess on the floor. Sorry you were called to clean it up.

say no to chundering

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/01/01/australia.slang.reut/index.html

 

Interesting read.  I might need a translator.  I just promised a co-worker a kangaroo scrotum if she works one of my weekends.