Things are looking up, I should have at least two interviews next week, both jobs 35-45 hours a week. I'm broke, but there's really nothing new or interesting about that, it's a normal thing for me now. I jutst got my fist credit card (not just in the UK, ever) and that makes me feel good, although it stays in the drawer for now. Hopefully...
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Ick gotta get rid of the misery blog.
I'm in Istanbul at the moment, and it's cold and wet. Meanwhile weather back home in the UK has been, rather pleasant. The Ironies of travel! I'm having a really good time, but honestly, I'm reay to get back home. I'm ready to do it, to make London happen. To be a man again, I'm ready to...
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I'm in Istanbul at the moment, and it's cold and wet. Meanwhile weather back home in the UK has been, rather pleasant. The Ironies of travel! I'm having a really good time, but honestly, I'm reay to get back home. I'm ready to do it, to make London happen. To be a man again, I'm ready to...
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miyo:
well actually, all is not lost right now, but the woman we are in competition with is a complete bitch so who knows.
miyo:
good news for now, i guess those planets have a lot to answer for! hehe
That's it, the bottom fell out. Something snapped. I think it all started with this song:
I was on the tran to work and I found myself crying. At the top of the station I usually turn left to go to work, I turned right. I got a coffee and sat a minute.
This song came on:
Hearing it, I knew why I'd been crying....
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I was on the tran to work and I found myself crying. At the top of the station I usually turn left to go to work, I turned right. I got a coffee and sat a minute.
This song came on:
Hearing it, I knew why I'd been crying....
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sailorcandy:
yea i do.. sucks to be a grown up!
kittyvalentine:
Thanks, she seems to have improved a bit in the last few days, so I'm staying positive.
This sounds weird, but your journal reminded me of something my ex would write. The one I still miss all that time later. He had a great way with words and so do you. x
This sounds weird, but your journal reminded me of something my ex would write. The one I still miss all that time later. He had a great way with words and so do you. x
It's been a long time since escape became my all consuming purpose. I think it began in year five of the last seven year cycle as well. All I think about when I'm not at work is how to get out of the industry, my work reflects my lack of care, it is meh -- and I think they're starting to notice (why oh why...
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gigondas:
I fell in love in New York, man. Big time. She's an old friend and it....
I hope y'all make it to London. That would be amazing.
I hope y'all make it to London. That would be amazing.
sailorcandy:
both ohwell...
Comment faire imaginer, par exemple, une ville sans pigeons, sans arbres et sans jardins, ou lon ne rencontre ni battements dailes ni froissements de feuilles, un lieu neutre pour tout dire? Le changement des saisons ne sy lit que dans le ciel. Le printemps sannonce seulement par la qualit de lair ou par les corbeilles de fleurs que des petits vendeurs ramnent des banlieues ;...
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gigondas:
Well do-wa-didee to you. I've been wondering lately, are you planning on England forever?
kittyvalentine:
As long as you don't actually get sick with whatever I have. It's truly horrible!
As long as you don't actually get sick with whatever I have. It's truly horrible!
And it begins again, as always.
I'm no closer to what it is I really want to do, but that doesn't matter so much now. Time to invert the lens again, it's good look look outward, but if you forget to look inside, you slip away from yourself. I'm alone for Christmas again this year, but I really don't mind -- I need the time....
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gigondas:
You sound juiced.
gigondas:
Thanks. I think the picture makes it.
Sometimes I look around and feel that I am in a prison, stuck in this world of economics and work. It's mad, completely mad. No country where on can escape it, no career that exists without it -- no place for a man to just be a man.
Something has been happening over the last few weeks, aside from failure (being sacked, that's never happened...
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Something has been happening over the last few weeks, aside from failure (being sacked, that's never happened...
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gigondas:
The job sounds low maintenance. Good place to gather the thoughts, maybe?
I see your deep in Marky K. Ever listen to the 'Shock Me' ep? It's pretty aces.
What's Christmas like there?
I see your deep in Marky K. Ever listen to the 'Shock Me' ep? It's pretty aces.
What's Christmas like there?
gigondas:
That song was aces. Indeed.
So here I am, Cambridge.
I'd post some photos, but I've been too busy to bother taking them.
I'm on my third day of my second week of double shifts. I don't get another day off untill next thursday. I'm being trained on every section of the restauant so that I canbe that guy who knows it all. Suffice it to say that if I...
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I'd post some photos, but I've been too busy to bother taking them.
I'm on my third day of my second week of double shifts. I don't get another day off untill next thursday. I'm being trained on every section of the restauant so that I canbe that guy who knows it all. Suffice it to say that if I...
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kittyvalentine:
Keep at it, you'll get there.
At the moment, I get up and go to work in the dark and I go home in the dark. It is very strange.
I've decided, for now, that I'm going to stay in Inverness a wee bit longer. A mix of things not really turning out how I'd hoped financially, not being ready to move and, thirdly, I've met some truly good people up here. I don't want to leave them behind when I'm just getting to know them. x
At the moment, I get up and go to work in the dark and I go home in the dark. It is very strange.
I've decided, for now, that I'm going to stay in Inverness a wee bit longer. A mix of things not really turning out how I'd hoped financially, not being ready to move and, thirdly, I've met some truly good people up here. I don't want to leave them behind when I'm just getting to know them. x
gigondas:
Head down, working head, eh? Alternately satisfying and fucking exhausting? I hope this is a place you can settle down for a bit. If not, I'm sure you'll stumble along brilliantly.
The Sun Kil Moon does kinda scare me though.
The Sun Kil Moon does kinda scare me though.
Thoughts on prop 8,
What he said...
In the 60's it was like this:
Now we have the pieces, we can make the machine work and work well...
I feel like we are coming in all ways to another shatterpoint of history, a series of critical moments where we either go this way or that. It may seem strange to say this but it seems...
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What he said...
In the 60's it was like this:
Now we have the pieces, we can make the machine work and work well...
I feel like we are coming in all ways to another shatterpoint of history, a series of critical moments where we either go this way or that. It may seem strange to say this but it seems...
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gigondas:
You feelin' any better? Watch that cough.
gigondas:
Working in a restaurant does make sobriety difficult.
What's the end game here? She gonna move closer? Y'all going to London? Is it just day-to-day? 'Weekends' together?
Sounds like an intense living situation. Take care of yourself, man. I've been wondering how you're doing. Don't go to far into the cave.
Hey, my state actually went blue this election. Ain't that something. It's been a long time.
It's been a long eight years.
What's the end game here? She gonna move closer? Y'all going to London? Is it just day-to-day? 'Weekends' together?
Sounds like an intense living situation. Take care of yourself, man. I've been wondering how you're doing. Don't go to far into the cave.
Hey, my state actually went blue this election. Ain't that something. It's been a long time.
It's been a long eight years.
So the job hunt is over, I will be woking here.
Cambridge is a long way from here, I'm going to have to pay two rents and for train tickets home on my day off. All of this would be fine for me if it didn't mean that I have to live away from the one I love for 6 months. It's not all...
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Cambridge is a long way from here, I'm going to have to pay two rents and for train tickets home on my day off. All of this would be fine for me if it didn't mean that I have to live away from the one I love for 6 months. It's not all...
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missharuko:
hahaahahahahahahha!! well.... a kind of............ 
symbidium:
Raor! Goblin attacks!
Wow... look for jobs outside of Birmingham and bam! (proves that this place is still a culinary wasteland.)
I've been looking at live in jobs around London and in the country (also in Cambridge), posted my CV on Cater.com and my phone hasn't stopped ringing. I have one job offer already, but it's a hotel that's rebuilding it's restaurant. I have a trial at a...
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I've been looking at live in jobs around London and in the country (also in Cambridge), posted my CV on Cater.com and my phone hasn't stopped ringing. I have one job offer already, but it's a hotel that's rebuilding it's restaurant. I have a trial at a...
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dinah:
yay for the jobs! Send some of that mojo my way!
kittyvalentine:
Good luck!! Let us know how it goes.
I left my job last week.
Normally when I leave a shit job I feel light, free of a burden that I know I did't really need anyways. This time it's different, I can't help but feel that I might have made a mistake. Worry and guilt plauge my mind, as I try to figure out what the difference is. I think I know what...
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Normally when I leave a shit job I feel light, free of a burden that I know I did't really need anyways. This time it's different, I can't help but feel that I might have made a mistake. Worry and guilt plauge my mind, as I try to figure out what the difference is. I think I know what...
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miyo:
i know, i get cold really easily but i love wrapping up in jumpers and hats and scarves.
kittyvalentine:
That's a good idea with the putting money aside thing. Though, my money situation got worse this week because I somehow managed to mysteriously lose 30 out of my purse, which I'm really irked about.
Maybe, the flip side of being an individual is that you're almost by definition a loner? I don't know. I'm very glad and thankful for the few people in my life I do have that great bond of friendship with though.
How are you today?
Maybe, the flip side of being an individual is that you're almost by definition a loner? I don't know. I'm very glad and thankful for the few people in my life I do have that great bond of friendship with though.
How are you today?
She's here Thursday. We're going to see Ryan Adams and Vetiver. What a good week!