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[girlofprey]

I called my friend in Nottingham tonight. She is HEAVILY IN FAVOUR of my moving there, at least while she's there for the next year. She offered me a hand getting my CV out, Arts contacts, a friend of hers I can maybe share a flat with, and a place on her floor if I get a job before quite getting the flat thing sorted out. So. That's all looking quite pleasant. I still do want to stay at my job until Christmas, to earn a bit more money to start out with, just in case it's a rockier start than I'm counting on - she's been having problems finding a job, having tried for two or three months now. But she's been pretty busy volunteering at a gallery too. So. The plan is moving forward at least, which is nice and really quite cheering.

Some problems/kinks in the plan:

• It sounds like I really am going to have to start grass roots up with the Arts job thing, which means I'll probably still end up filing and typing for rent. Also I'm going to have to start cooking and cleaning and all that stuff mum does at the moment. But this is all fine, and what everyone has to do, so I am for the most part okay with it.



• Cuba. I'm still interested in the brigade, and really want to go on the next one, so - five years later - it's finally done. My friend's not had much time to give it any thought though, so it looks like we won't be booking it any time soon. I'm not sure how "Oh yeah, I'll need 3 weeks off in June" will go down in job interviews anyway, but I'm gathering that it will be much better if it's all booked and sorted before the job hunt starts. So. Hmm.



• I'm still not sure if I want to share a flat or not. The idea of having a place aaaaall to myself, and being able to do what I like in it, does seem quite attractive - but am I going to want to come home to an empty flat every night? Or come home by myself if I stay out late? Perhaps not. But then there's the problem of finding a flatmate I can cope with. But if I get on with my friend's friend, who I'll be meeting when I go down next weekend, that might be a problem solved.



• Cats. I'd sort of forgotten about them in the flurry of trying to get a flat/job/life. Whatever place I move into - and whoever I move in with - might not appreciate their presence. And we've just started letting them out into the garden, to get a feel for their environment. And it doesn't seem very fair to move them. But they're not even a year old yet - and looking after them for the next ten years or so is not really what my parents signed up for when they let me have them - and they're my cats. But I just don't think it's going to be feasible moving them into a city flat. Or that I'll be able to take care of them well if I'm working to pay the rent and going out having fun of an evening. So that's quite sad.

All of which needs to be dealt with in the next month and a half. But my friends and I can talk a bit more about it next week, and hopefully get at least a few things sorted. And maybe get something actually done.

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Over the last few weeks I have been watching: the first three episodes of The Black Adder, in which Percy Percy is very pretty and has black hair; Robin Hood, which I can't work out why I'm enjoying so much. Other than that Much is great. And Guy is omg. And Will is pretty. Possibly it's the utter lack of emotional investment needed for it, so I can just cheerfully go along for the ride. Except for when Much eventually gets kidnapped. Come on, you know it's going to happen. And I tried watching the Forsyte Saga again, but I can't actually cope with the bits that don't have Soames Forsyte in. They're just too dull. Though also hilarious. It feels like cheating to just skip ahead to the Soames bits. Cheating or survival tactics. One of the two.

Anyway. Sleep is a good thing to have before working, is mostly what I've learned in the past five months, so that is where I'm currently headed.

Comments

[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I know you've got friends here who'll help you with the job thing, but if you give me a vague idea of what you're looking for, I'll keep an eye out in the local paper as well (since I read it every week anyway).

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

That's very kind of you! The thing is, I don't really know what I'm looking for yet. Just something to pay the rent, for now. Y'know, that rent I don't have (yet). I'd like to get into cinema or theatre, ideally, but for now I just thought some admin or filing work, since I've got a bit of experience. I'm going to get a careers advisor to go over my CV and maybe talk to some agencies next weekend before I do anything else - and keep checking out Gumtree (http://nottingham.gumtree.com/) - but thanks. I'll definitely keep your offer in mind closer to the time.

[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll still keep an eye out -- I know that the Playhouse and the Royal Centre regularly advertise. Obviously, right now, they're sorting out panto season, but they do occasionally pop in some nice jobs.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_mysterieuse/]

I think I'm enjoying Robin Hood for the same reasons. I don't feel the need to tape it of I'm not in but I do really enjoy it as simple telly for a Saturday night.

Thinking about it I bet you'r right about Much getting kidnapped too. Guy wears a bit too much shiny, slightly cheap looking balck leather for my liking but Will is great.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_mysterieuse/]

*black, dammit.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I do like to keep up with it, but yeah, it's just - fun. You don't have to worry about plot, characterisation, logic. Just lie back and watch the shiny colours :)

I like Guy because he is all tied up with inferiority issues. And knows his way around a broadsword. But they're all pretty great, really. I even like the sheriff. He doesn't think men should get married. Win.

[tiniago.livejournal.com]

Omg, I will never catch up with your life. But it sounds BRILLIANT. *awe*

Live with someone else, that's my motto. Don't live alone, unless you can skank on someone else's floor every night. If they are beastly you can just ignore them. Although not if they are very intrusive, I suppose. Get a mumsy sort who will stay at home all day and look after the cats. Or, omg, room with a GIANT SENTIENT CAT who can walk upright and open cupboards and nuture your kittens and go out and earn rent at night by doing... whatever it is that giant sentient cats get paid to do at night in Notts!

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

IT IS NOT BRILLIANT. Just in case I hadn't made that clear in the last comment. It just has things in it that aren't staring at a computer screen or putting paper in numerical order. Which is...slightly win, yes. You fancied Damien Lewis as Soames Forsyte, I know you did. Also you have read possibly all of the Sandman books. I have read the first two and one and a half of the Lucifer books. Discuss. I love Lucifer.

I can't believe you want me to get a rentcat.

[tiniago.livejournal.com]

I loved Soames-DamienLewis-Forsyte rather much. Everyone was like "He's a monster! He's a cold arrogant controlling monster!" But he wasn't, he just had deficiencies that he couldn't remedy, and he loved her awfully and she married him despising him - I worry that I'm being unfeminist here, but the silly fool, what did she expect to happen? Er, I'm not justifying the rape here, but the other stuff. She despised him when she married him and never wanted anything to do with him and what, did she just plan to be married to him hating him the rest of her life? I mean, I like her and I even quite admire the subconscious uncompromisingness of her attitude, but on the whole I think someone that strong-minded has no business doing such a weak-minded thing. And he was a bit broken. And possibly personality-disordered. And he loved his daughter and his kitten and he was red-headed and so trapped by himself and also he was Damien Lewis who is the most beautiful man in the world. And... I didn't see the second series so I don't know how it all ends. Spoiler me if you like.

The Sandman series mostly annoys me much more than it satisfies me, but I have read it all and Lucifer is one of the better things in it, yes. Have you read I, Lucifer? Nothing to do with the Lucifer comics except the name.

I did not say that it would be a rentcat, Rachael. You said that. I left it open-ended. He could... wash plates in the local pub, or something.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

YOUR WORDS ARE SO GOOD. I loved Soames Forsyte. I don't agree with the rape, of course. But everyone was just like 'He's awful', and expected him to be awful, but all I seemed to see was him taking care of things when people needed him to, like organising funerals and stuff, and saying things like "I was very sorry to hear about your father". And yes, he was a bit controlling, and not exactly smooth, but it seemed to me like he was mostly just caught up in the idea of "proprietry", and as much tied up by it himself as anything. Irene just annoyed me by being so self-righteous when she had, essentially, married him for his money. He was prepared to leave her alone, he listened to her after she jerked him around, he agreed to all her terms, and didn't even say anything when she wouldn't let him kiss her. Apparently Gina McKee thinks she tried to make her marriage work, at first. I think maybe not. It's a shame really because, when they got over themselves a bit, I think they suited each other a bit. I shipped him slightly with Bosinney though. All that arguing about how to do up the house!

The second series. Basically, it was twenty years later when their kids are all grown up. Before that there's quite a lot about how Soames basically gave his daughter everything she asked for, and even wore white and a straw hat when she wanted him to. Anyway, la di da, the kids naturally fall in love. Lots of people are upset about this. There's a GREAT bit where Young Jolyon storms into Soames' office and is all 'They're in love. You knew about this didn't you? WE MUST STOP THEM', and Soames is all 'HAVE YOU ASKED them?'. Then he says something along the lines of 'Obviously I will intefere, because I'm a bastard, but you, should think long and hard about what a hypocrite you are'. Basically all the secrets about Soames and Irene and the rape come out, and the boy breaks up with Fleur, and she shouts at her dad that he only ever bought her Stuff, as if that was what she cared about, and agrees to marry some rich stiff who likes her. She's awful to Soames for ages, until on the morning of the wedding he gets shouty himself, and grabs her, and is all 'Do you want to know what I did??'. And then he tells her about how he loved Irene, but it all went wrong, and she "locked him out of her mind, and out of her body". And then he tells her how one night when he was drunk and hopeless he forced her, and he cries as he says it, and says he knew that afterwards all she could see when she looked at him was that night. And Fleur is just amazed and incredulous, and forgives him, and it's lovely. Then they walk down the stairs towards the wedding, and he stops her and says 'right, are you sure you want to do this?', and I was all 'NO, RUN AWAY AND TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH YOUR BRILLIANT FATHER', but she does, so they can have an angsty next book.

And then there's a bit at the end - Young Jolyon has died, and the kids are married, and Soames goes round to Irene's with a painting she liked, or a painting he thought she'd want, or something Jolyon painted. And she's just like 'Yes?...Thank you', and he just looks at her, and then leaves. And a servant asks her what he wanted, and Irene says 'He didn't want anything. Nothing at all'. And it's just beautiful. Oh. I love him. Her a bit. Not Jolyon or June.

I haven't read I, Lucifer, no. It's on the to-read list? I'm willing to bet it doesn't have Mazikeen, though.

He would be a cat I sent out to earn rent. Therefore he would be a rentcat.