“You get your Ph.D.
How happy you will be
When you get a job at Wendy’s
And are honored with employee of the month….”
-Barenaked Ladies - “Never Is Enough”
If just one more person gives me a skeptical, condescending or pitying look when I tell them that we’re moving to Australia without a car or a job or a house (or a clue) in place I’m going to go ballistic on them. These people clearly don’t understand that if we had anything sorted then there would be no real adventure.
Since my attack dog is currently doing time in Melbourne dog nick, maybe I can get Dr. O’C’s nephew Ollie (aka The Destructicon) to take on the bulk of the ass kicking.
On a less pugilistic note - check out A Free Man’s interview with Swedish indie-popper Matthias Stromberg of The Bell. Matthias is also a Daddy, and we had a little chat about one of my favorite parenting issues - kids and music. Check out the interview and some of The Bell’s tunes here.
The Barenaked Ladies’ “Stunt” is available from Amazon
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7 responses so far ↓
1 Rambling Canuck // Apr 5, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Congrats on the move. Sounds exciting.
2 Not Afraid To Use It // Apr 5, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Oh God. I love me some BNL. Just like Hank Williams, they have a song for everything. McDonald’s Girl is one of my personal favs.
One of the reasons you keep getting these pitying looks is bc you are in Sweden. They can’t even plan a fika without consulting their planbok and booking it five weeks in advance, for fuckssake.
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3 Trish // Apr 6, 2008 at 1:49 am
And here was I thinking you’re being completely brave. I want to do what you’re doing - just pack up and leave and cross your fingers that it will all fall into place when you get there. Which it will, because things have a funny way of working themselves out. My husband is less gung-ho. He wants to have lots of cash in the war-chest for unexpected emergencies, and he wants to go over first, for a month or so, to suss out the housing options and sign the contract for a job he’d already have negotiated from home. So sensible, I know. But here we are, several years after agreeing that it would be fun to live and work abroad, still stuck in our safe and comfy little rut. I wish I could convince him to take the plunge but like I said, he’s the sensible one. I’m the dreamer.
We are, however, contemplating a move to the country (ie half an hour out of town) and that is attracting all sorts of negative comments from friends who think it will be a nightmare. So I know a little how it feels to have everyone question your sanity. It sucks. So, stick it up all of them, come down here and give it your best shot. Meanwhile they’ll all be left behind in their little ruts.
(sorry - you struck a raw nerve)
Trish’s last blog post..By the time you read this, I’ll have lost my mind.
4 Casey // Apr 6, 2008 at 8:22 am
I don’t think Malvika and I have wished you, Sinead and Zach good luck on the move. We wish you the three well, and we will be visiting. If you see any yabbies grab ‘em and freeze ‘em, but please don’t eat ‘em. They are, after all, for research! Oh, don’t grab the Endangered ones. That’d be bad!
5 Busy Dad Mumbles // Apr 6, 2008 at 1:46 pm
A BNL reference. One of my favorites. Due to the economic conditions they will have to re-release their hit, If I had a Billion Dollars. That is so we can purchase petrol for our autos.
My best to you in your flux. Enjoy the transition. My best to you, the Doc, and the British Bulldog.
6 Maggie // Apr 6, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Everything will be okay.
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7 arizaphale // Apr 7, 2008 at 4:47 pm
There are endangered yabbies?
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