Dec 19 - Books and Church

Woke up to the alarm at 10 AM, shut it off and slept til past noon. The past few nights, both Brennan and I haven't gotten to sleep til 2 or 3 AM due to not being tired enough, so then we sleep in, which makes it hard to get to sleep early again. Crappy cycle, but we have been getting more sleep than we have become accustomed to in the past three months, so it's nice to be able to catch up after many busy days in the course of our travels. Checked the forecast and it wasn't hot and due to rain today, so I scrapped the surfing initiative. One day this week I plan on going for sure, but some research as to days with good waves and which company to use, etc. will be required first. After showering and enjoying a breakfast of eggs, toast/jam and cereal, it was back to the room. Brennan spent time online and I crushed a couple hundred pages of my book. This is perhaps why I don't read often, because when I get into a book, I don't really put it down til it's done, and I do nothing during the course of this reading session. Anyways, read and surfed the web and such til just after 5, then we walked over to a huge cathedral style church by Hyde Park downtown for mass. The church was enormous and so elaborate inside, moreso than any church I'd seen before. We sat and waited for mass to begin, which was done by the bishop, who was old and monotone and his sermon was simply him explaining the facts of the Christmas narrative. Yawn. Went for some food after; Brennan opted for Subway while I was craving a kebab, so I went that route. Then we headed back to the hostel and read and went on the internet some more. I got into looking for jobs and wrote a whole new cover letter for one position from scratch, which is so hard to get motivated for when you've got a good generic CV situation. When I hit the apply button, it said the job was no longer available. What a waste of my time. Then I wrote another new cover letter for an executive assistant postion with the organization that runs Earth Hour. I took a whole new approach to my style of writing and my tone of the letter, sort of expressing my desire to be a part of something so important and dedicated to changing the world. We shall see what the results are. Tomorrow I might go through the big mall in Sydney and check with each retailer if they can hire on another employee. If I could just get an interview, I know I'd have any job I applied for, but getting interviews is proving to be quite a challenge. I spent a couple hours at the end of tonight editing my blog posts for grammar and spelling issues and by downloading some new music on the Global Gossip connection (anonymity works great when pirating music). I want to put all my blog posts and the less artistic, but more fun photos of the trip into a book via Blurb, so I'll whittle away at that in the coming days.