Good Day, Sir!

LAST Tuesday was a big one for me. The previous Friday, a PR person representing a vitamin company contacted my office and asked if I would like to go for a spin with champion Aussie rally driver Chris Atkinson…in Melbourne. Considering I live in Sydney and had somewhere to be that evening, I was about to turn down the kind offer when I was told the vitamin company would fly me to Melbourne in the morning and get me back to Sydney by 5pm! Game on.

I caught a Virgin Blue flight to Melbourne at 8:15am and was met at the airport by a chauffeur holding a sign with my name on it. Walking to the luxury sedan, I tried to act like this sort of thing happens to me all the time (it really doesn’t) and 20 minutes later I was at the impressive Subaru Centre in Docklands. After watching a presentation by the vitamin company, I hopped in a WRX STI and hit the skid pan with Atkinson. It was fun, but it only lasted about five minutes! After the event, I was given two bags full of vitamins (always handy) and caught a cab into the centre of the city to have a quick look around. After about 45 minutes, I called the chauffeur service and was whisked back to the airport in time for the 3:45pm flight back to Sydney.




The somewhere I had to be that evening was at The Metro to see LA indie artist Jenny Lewis. I’d become familiar with her music only a few weeks before, and I couldn’t believe my luck when I found out she was playing in Sydney. The gig took place on the decrepit set of an MTV show called The Lair, and I loved every second of it. Aside from being pretty cute, Ms Lewis has an incredible voice and I dig her quirky lyrics. If she ever comes to your town, I highly recommend you check her out (LJT – she’ll be in San Diego on April 14: www.jennylewis.com/tour).