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.