got. there.

i like this year. it is full of good things already, and we are only in february. i got married, i got my australian residency and now, two weeks later, i have got myself a fine new job to go to. it is a good one too, not just one of your run-of-the-mill crap jobs. it is just the kind of stuff i want to do, and i hope it works out well.

it is at a water engineering consultancy that primarily does flood modelling and analysis. i have got a couple of friends from university who work with this sort of stuff and i have been envious of them for a long time now. i start on march 1st and i pretty much cannot wait. it is a five week temporary contract to start with, so i need to do well if they are going to keep me on. time to work hard! i haven't worked for over six months, so i am really eager to get started.

i have got such a good run so far this year and it feels like everything is just falling into place. they are pretty humble things, just having a nice home and a job, but it is all i am really asking for right now. i just want to save money, get my career going and get into a normal life with rachel. that sort of standard grown-up's life you know. maybe in the future i can get myself some actual ambitions.

henry rollins is coming to sydney in april. i don't have tickets yet, but i really really want to go. i think he is a really interesting character, he's got a lot of opinions presented in a 'different' way and is also extremely funny. i don't care too much for his music; granted, i haven't heard too much of it, but it is not nearly as exciting as his spoken word stuff. on the album think tank, he's got a long piece called airport hell which is basically a 14 minute rant about how stupid people are and how obvious that is at airports. it always makes me laugh out loud when i hear it and i can't help thinking about it whenever i'm at the airport. you can find it on grooveshark. check it out!

the mountain goats are also coming to sydney in april. i predict april to be an awesome month. the latest tmg album, the life of the world to come, is really good and you should get it.