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Summary: Hello, mate! (Practicing my Australian.* How am I doing?) I'm so glad the timing worked out for this couch exchange. I'll be crashing on yours by the time you get to mine.** If you run into any problems, just find Alyssa. She'll help you out with whatever you need.*** Your couch-swapping mate, Rick *That's cute. Go have fun in Australia and leave ME--your girlfriend for an entire semester--to waste away on campus, alone. **Um, think again. Your couch is already taken. ***Great. Now I've got to find a place for the (unbelievably hot, it turns out) Aussie to crash. But there's only one couch available: the one in my dorm room. . . .