Friday!

Yes, so today make it's Friday. A full 7 days I've been here now. I just read that Britney Spears in getting married. LOL man, that made me laugh. She's all fo 19 or something like that. Just imagine. Uchk!

So on my walk into town this morning I noticed that this little town of Richmond is the world capital for dental surgeons! LOL no, seriously there are about half a dozen clinics all along the way here. It's so funny. It's nothing official or anything like that, but if ever you are in need of dental surgery this is ths place to be!

Meeting up with Blaise tonight for some drinks. I haven't seen him since I left Lyon in 1997! It's so long! I'm happy to have someone to go out with. Another night at home would have done my head in!

Heading out now to see if I can get another paper with more flat listings. I'm having trouble getting into my hotmail account so I can't see if the digital eve ladies have been of any assistance in my search... we'll see.

Have you a flat?

I have dedicated today as my flat finding day. There are so many options and I hardly know the city. I have a bunch of places to call. Hopefuly I can manage to get in to visit some of them before the weekend. I don't start my job now till monday. That gives me an extra week day to find a place to live.

Culture shock is eminent (sp?) I know I'm sleeping too much but I'm doing my best. It's rainy and grey today. It's the first time I've ever seen London like this. Mind you, I doubt it will be the last!

I'm at the cafe early today. 9am Canadian time. I suppose all my friends are just arriving at the office. Bought a Time out today. They have a free Tricky concert comming up in 2 weeks. You have to go and line up to get the tickets next week. Maybe I'll pop down on my lunch. I would love to see him live. Lamb is also playing in a few weeks. If the cashflow allows I think I'll go see them.

Hoping to get out on Friday night. Looking for some trouble. he he.

more later....

a job?

Yes, it's true... I've got a job offer. I'm so excited! It's with www.framworksbrandlogic.com it's a company that I had a telephone interview with before I left. They want me to start Friday! I'm so thrilled. It's a really cool studio at Islington Higbury. It's quite easily accessable. I think I'm going to accept the position. If all works out then I hope to find a flat this weekend.

Met Elizabeth for lunch today. It was an ex-ottawa red head convention. We had lunch at this really nice pub in earl's court. she lives there with her boyfriend. It's such a nice area. I would love to live around there. Plus it's only a 15 min tube ride to work. Who knows... I stood with the mass amounts of people reading the accomodation board for that area before heading back to richmond. It's so surreal. Somehow... having a job lifts such an incredible weight from my shoulders!

Oh yes, I've just remembered. My cousins managed to get tickets to the recording of the TV series "black books" it's hilarious. It comes on the CBC tuesday nights at 9pm (or at least it did earlier in the summer) It should be a riot!.

I'm too excited to even blog. More tomorrow.

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There's just no receipt

"There's just no receipt for a body" My cousin says to me this morning on our way to play tennis. Hmm. now true as it may be. It's something I never thought of. He was telling me the story of how his mother (my grandmother's sister) passed away. He explained to me in intricate detail as he always does... the day they came and took her body. He said there was no more helpless feeling than watching them take her away and realizing that there was no receipt. Life has you expecting things like that. What if they misplaced her? What if there was a mix up? There would be no trace. For some things in life you just have to have faith.

On that note. I think that's my lesson for the day. Didn't get that job that I went for on Friday. I know I've only been here a few days but it feels discouraging. Silly, I know. I made sure to not let it get the best of me. I've spent an obscene amount of time here at the cafe this aft. I've been back at applying for jobs. It took so long to get all my bits in place. Being at a cafe and all there is no way to access attachments. I had to re-combobulate my whole cover letter and CV. Now it's done I feel good, and feel back on track. I've been grooving to the snazzy CD that Jeffie made for me before I left. Thanks babe! It really helped in drowning out the nauseating woman beside me as she giggled and sucked face with her boyfriend. LOL I wish they were still here to read this while I write it. They seemed to take great interest in what I was doing on my machine while they were waiting for their hotel reservations to process.

I'm so excited. Tomorrow I'm off to meet up with my friend Elizabeth who just moved here from Ottawa to live with her boyfriend. At last the social companionship that I've been craving! It will be nice to get down town too... Finally got in touch with Blaise. He's back from Dublin. I hope to see him soo too! I can't believe that it's been 5 years since I last saw him!

I'm down to 278 mins! ahhh editing my cv sure ate up a whole lot of time.

Signing off before I freeze to death with the air conditioning.

Remember, not everything in life can be traced. hmm....

Forced Leisure

Is there really such a thing? Well i'm living it! after so much kaos, i've found myself here on a bank holiday. Everything is on hold till tomorrow. I'm so anxious to get things going it's killing me!

Lots of leisure time lots of sipping tea... quite funny really. it's so off the mark when it comes to my pace. Got in touch with Sean this afternoon who sent me a very appreciated e-mail. I'm so desperate for social stimulation it's hilarious, I almost cried when I got his e-mail!

It's lovely here today... yesterday was grey and rainy... in biding time till tuesday rolls around | found myself watching this god awful movie feature soleil moon frye... Punky Brewster, what has become of you? It was too bad for words really... it was a half assed horror flick... I still feel dirty for having watched it. LOL

So much money around this area, I can not relate in the least. I'm just trying to grin and bare it. My cousins are really great to be keeping me and feeding me and all that but I'm just bursting to get my own place and it's only day 3!

I'm now working with 447minutes of internet time... I don't even want to compute how much the time cost... all i know that it's somewhere around 25$ ahhh. I'm just hoping that it will keep me until I get a job and a computer that I can use for these purposes. I think I might have to reslove to just writing in a journal... I unfortunately didn' have room to bring the lovely one Alfredo bought for me before I left. Hopefuly KJ will bring it across to me soon!

I think my right arm is begining to freeze from the unrelentless air conditioning that it blowing on me...

That's all for today.

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