Leaving Home

Me on the road to...somewhere as I left my pub job

I've moved four times this month. Well, to be absolutely completely honest, Lucie and Jess moved for me while I was in Italy, but since then I've had belongings scattered over London. They're all together in the same place now (Stockwell) and in a few weeks, I'll be moving them again (to Oman/Australia/new London house).

On Sunday I said a final farewell to the job from hell (nightmare hours, issues with pay, bosses who were not... nice) and hello to unemployment and itinerantness. Actually, to be honest, I'm staying with Mum's friends in Stockwell who have kindly taken me in (poor homeless waif that I am). In exchange I'm going to do some kid-and-puppy-sitting and try to be generally helpful.

As much as I hated my old job, I'm really sad to leave Jamie (here in my room on my final morning - note rather fetching uniform that we had to wear). It's strange that you can sometimes meet someone that you get on with right from the start. It helps that me and Jamie have a lot in common. We both did rather esoteric arts degrees (Spanish/Politics and Linguistics/English Lit), then ended up in Europe working at rather mundane jobs. Jamie's going to move back to Sydney to study PR at UTS, while I'm thinking of Law at Sydney Uni.

And somehow we both ended up at a rather strange pub in North London.

Hopefully, the next person that is hired there will be cool, and actually, Jamie and I might get to hang out a little more, as we never got to see much of each other when working, except if we had a shift together.
Leslie, a friend of mine from Women's Collective ended up in London on the weekend, and I got to see her (as I had quit my horrible job and now have time to have a life). We wondered around Camden and then canals around there, as it was a beautiful day. It was great to hang around with a Brisbanite again who let me know all sorts of news from back home.

Leslie at Camden

Now that I have a little bit more free time, me, Jess and Lucie got to hang around on Monday. We've had a week (it ended today in a downpour) of delicious weather and sunshine, so we ended up at Crystal Palace Park for a picnic and kick around.


I'll sign off with a picture of my Guinness moustache - out celebrating further unemployment and general freedom. Hopefully I'll use my time here to sort out a few plans I have in mind and generally organize my life as much as possible. But for once, I'm not feeling so helpless and hopeless. It's just like I've set out on another path, that I didn't really expect, but all the same is pretty damn exciting.