Weekend Update

Monday Nov 12th

Welcome to Weekend Update, I'm Mark LaPierre and you're not (old SNL reference for you Johnny).

On Friday we met up with my coworker's for our first official Australian Barbie in Camperdown, which is 4km southwest of the CBD, just north of Newtown. There was no shrimp on the barbie, as they call shrimp prawns over here, and there is a big movement to change the 'throw another shrimp on the barbie' slogan to 'throw another steak on the barbie' since steak is the traditional barbie food in Australia. Who knows, maybe back in the States, they will change the Oscar-Meyer wiener song to 'My bologna has a last name... it's a hyphenated version of the last names of both parents since we are a modern progressive family that does not believe in the old patriarchal dominant society. Also, my bologna is made from tofu'.

There were some great views of the sunset from my colleague's porch, which was connected to the living room and separated by a pull-down garage door, instead of a sliding door, so it seemed like an outdoor space in the living room - very cool.

On Saturday, we nursed our hangovers by finishing season 1 of Homeland (and didn't feel guilty about it since it was cloudy and rainy most of the day). We met up with a friend of the sister of a friend, who just moved over here 2 weeks ago to live with her Aussie boyfriend. We met for pizza and drinks at the Australian Heritage Hotel in the Rocks and hit it off. To top it off, she is also unemployed, so her and Mere may be spending a lot of time together...not working.

On Sunday, we went over to another colleague's house in Mortdale (30 mins on the train south of CBD) for a mini cookout and to help bottle the homebrew I aided with 3 weeks ago. We had sausages (since there are no American hot dogs over here...which probably is a good thing) and rissoles, which are kind of like a hamburger usually with carrot, onion, and maybe other vegetables chopped up in the meat.