Bird Flu

It's one thing to be sick and not have your mom there because you don't live at home. It's another thing to be sick and not have your mom there because you're across the globe. I have the flu or something and feel just horrible. I still have gone to work of course, but I have just been shaky and nauseous the past couple days. No fun at all. I'm really excited to go to sleep at 6 pm tonight. I'm headed to the 'chemist' after work to get a thermometer so I can convince myself I'm really sick, and that these beads of sweat dripping down my face aren't from the room temperature, (which everyone around me is saying is freezing). It will probably really freak me out when the thermometer tells me my temperature is 30 degrees or something.

Besides that, things are going really really well! My social calendar is surprisingly full of bbqs, dinners, walks, and drinks. I'm meeting a good network of friends through work. It seems like all the youngish BHP employees are excited to meet a new young person. Especially one who isn't tied into her own social network already! So, on that note things are going really smoothly. Oh, and besides too many jager-bombs and a massive hangover on Saturday, my friend-date went well. These bloody Aussies are crazy let me tell you. I've seen nothing like it. A lesson to myself to be careful because there's not close friends and Amirs around to watch my back & make sure I make it home safely, as I take a shot... or seven. On Saturday, I went out with a girl Eliza, who I met at the footy game on Friday. She was a doll, and we are definitely friends, because Facebook made us official. Besides that, I probably walked about 10 hours over the weekend just shopping and checking out the town and suburbs. I'm hoping to be a whiz at Melbourne by the time Amir comes so he thinks I'm really cool.

Work is overwhelming. I honestly don't know how we've managed to produce so much for them from the States. It's SO much easier being here, but the issue is that I see the timelines, budgets, and real scope of work, and it's definitely intense. It's difficult to not have a team of designers around me and realize that so much lies in my hands. It's a really big deal. Anyway, that's work. I love it tho. The attitudes, the schedules, the formalities, it's a change, and is refreshing, even tho I love the way I'm used to things being as well. It's just new experiences and I like that.

Anyway, time to go sleep now. I have some photos and will post them asap. I'm going to go moan and complain about feeling crappy to myself now, since there's no one around to hear me. Maybe housekeeping will hear, or I'll call room service just so I can have someone to show how miserably ill I am. mmmmmmmmmoooooooooooooooooooan.