3.22.2003
euros not dollars for oil
it is an interesting experience being in another country while my own has started a war that most of the world does not support. in some ways, it almost makes me support it. but not quite.
i have heard that an australian journalist proposed that the reason the us has gone to war with iraq is because iraq recently started trading oil in euros, not dollars, and we are afraid of losing the power of the american dollar. i have neither a link to the story or substantiated any of these facts, but perhaps this is an interesting thing to think about and research. i will do what i can, but i have to say that being in this hole of a town called murupara all week is not conducive to online research. see my other blog if you want more details on murupara and the 10 year old lesbians i met.
19:08
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3.16.2003
happy st. pat's day
today was the first day back after a week's holiday, during which i went on a three day tramp in tongariro national park and up to the coromandel. i actually saw the ENTIRE coromandel peninsula, driving a total of about 1,200 km (700 miles). i camped on the very northernmost tip, right on the beach, at a place called fletcher bay. it was a nice week alone, away and around. we got into the rafting today, and instead of actually going out and doing it, we were in the classroom. for good reason, because one of the tutor's grandmother died, so it's all good, but i was very frustrated, for reasons i won't go into.
but maybe it's just my mood. word is getting out big time about my crush on my instructor. and i am starting to get that i-think-he-hates-me vibe (rather, the i-think-he-doesn't-know-what-to-do-with-me-because-of-my-crush vibe). argh, younger men.
so this is my obligatory update for a few weeks. for more regular/current info, check out my blog dedicated to new zealand at http://aspiringexpat.blogspot.com.
23:20
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3.01.2003
last to know
it turns out my scuba instructor, who i have a serious crush on, is actually seeing someone. and she is either a total bitch or he is madly in love with her because he is on a diet because of her. it makes sense because it was actually freaky how i never saw the guy eat. and while he's not morbidly obese, he's not "petite" either. but why am i the last to know? it's a cruel cruel world.
while his missus, as they say here, is blonde, and thus a natural focus of all my hate and anger, i still do not meddle in other people's relationships. andrew will have to see for himself how much better of a woman i am than some stupid blonde girl. :) actually, i am really just a jumble of emotions and desires. while i have been willing to use and abuse a few guys in my recent past (though in the end, i am the one who gets hurt, so it's all works out in the end, i suppose), i have no desire to do that with this guy, because i actually really like him. not that i didn't like these other guys, but this one is different. he is very very nice and kind and considerate. so i don't want to even remotely try to break them up, nor do i think i want him to choose me anyways. i'm leaving in three months. i don't want to complicate this guy's life. i don't want him to get caught up in my messy life. that's kindness, no?
anyhow, this blog is being seriously neglected. i put all of my updates on my other site: here.
in short, i'm loving the new zealand thing. the thing that's on my mind, though, is deciding what i want to do when this is over. i go back to the states on june 16 (God allowing, since my ticket is on United), and have a job for july and plans to drive cross-country in august. i want to stay in the states until at least october, since a good friend of mine just got engaged and he says that's when the wedding will be. a job has opened up at my old place of employment that is quite perfect. but i am also thinking of living in LA and NYC. and then there's this place. God, i am so happy here in new zealand. a lot of it has to do with being physical, which judith, the woman i board with who is also a pagan and quite into astrology, would chalk up to me being an aries. but it's also easy to be so active here. it's just what this country is all about, in some ways. i guess i could be active in the states, too, but there's something about this place...ahh, the wanderlust in me. ahh, the aspiring expat in me.
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bubbly and lovely: i'm too poor for therapy.
