You know you're an internet junkie when you go looking through your stuff for a clean pair of socks or a pencil or something, and you catch yourself trying to Google your rucksack. I just caught myself doing that. I think I might need some fresh air.
Now it's not just the diet of cheeseburgers for breakfast (hey, it's a lot cheaper than eating in a proper restaurant, still no excuse for why I'm not eating the muesli I bought yesterday though) but they probably aren't helping. I did promise myself, in a serious and genuine way not the usual flippant pie/sky daydreaming way, that I'd get employed and start doing a bunch of honest, decent, progressive stuff as soon as I got to New Zealand, but I was wasting away the day recently when at one point I felt a pang of guilt at not having learned Spanish yet. I had been in the country for around 18 hours then, so I reckon Jet lag doesn't do much for one's sense of proportion.
And it's very strange how it often affects me after only small time differences, usually going North-South instead of East-West. Weird.
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And so it begins, although I am very much behind schedule. Into Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island (the second-largest city in the country, but with a population of just 370,000) and within an hour I was in the back office of a nightclub getting drunk with the DJs and managers, poking fun of the customers on CCTV. Check my bad self 
After that it has been a bit quiet and, yes, a bit nerdy. I have put off the job search in a pique of laziness and indulgence, although pounding the pavement in this weather looking for the multiple yet vastly seperated agencies, looking to humble myself before them as you have to, all to register for some decidedly menial work, well, it isn't all that appealing.
I hear the weather is hot and sticky back in the UK; well it's only 6 degrees above freezing here and it rains almost every day, plus the winds are relentless and the room, while in a very lovely hostel, is not heated well. Still, the place is great and I've had a chance to catch up on my nerdy stuff and finally get the photos sort-of sorted out and at least got my Facebook and a couple of other sites updated.
Now to pick out the similar best for this right here 
