"Bin Boy"...it's like "Big Boy" but with bins

Imagine the following. I slept in until 9:00am this morning and took my time getting ready for breakfast. Strolling across the slab to the kitchen, I slowly made my way through the warmth of the morning under big fat clouds scattered throughout a baby blue sky. Toast, eggs, and fruit: that was my nutritious breakfast. I was enjoying my conversation with one of my friends, Alex, when all of a sudden the head chef comes barreling towards me. "Shane," he says, stressing the long "a" sound in my name like most Aussies do, brushing past the "sh" and attaching the "n" at the last second. "We need somebody to empty the bins on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday. It's about a two hour job each day, you can do it whenever you want, and you'll get paid thirty dollars a day that will come straight off your weekly rent. You want to be the bin boy." "Hells yes!"...no I actually didn't say that. But for real? I did my first shift today from 10:30am-12:30pm and only took that long because I had to collect a ton of boxes from people that have moved in. And, next weekend I can do it whenever I feel like it, as long as it gets done.

Here is what I have to do. Go around the college and empty the 17 trash bins into the two big dumpsters and then replace the "rubbish" bags. Um, I was doing that at the age of 7, thank you, sign me up for money please. Nonetheless you can see my excitement.

But, the real reason I want to blog now is because it is unofficially the beginning of "O" Week and things are about to get hectic. I was able to chill this afternoon, watching a movie with Boyd, Chris, and Kirsty and then going to the gym with Boyd and a cool fresher named Lachy. We have an all college meeting at 4:30pm and then a pick up game of touch with the boys, dinner, and then "get to know you night." It sounds like a bunch of name games and cheesy ice-breakers to me...what fun. On that note, hopefully I will be able to keep up on this over the next week but if not, I will have lots of fun stories about my first shift in the kitchen, O Week, and me skyping myself into the General Election Debate at Allegheny. Until then, oi!