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Home at Last

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

After weeks of living out of my suitcase, I’ve finally unpacked all of my stuff into my very own room. I can’t begin to tell you what an exhilarating feeling that was for me. On Saturday we received a call from the landlord’s intermediary (programmed in Kelly’s phone as “The Devil”) saying that we could move in Sunday. Fantastic. Happy faces. Sunday morning we get a call saying we can’t move in after all–no checks allowed, cash only. Just great. Curse intermediary devil woman. Sunday evening we get a call saying we can move in–check is okay. We pack our bags and get over there before The Devil can call us back and change her mind.

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From my desk looking out onto the Thames

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Okay, so the desk isn’t mine and I’m only here for half a day, but the view is pretty darn amazing anyway. Another day, another job. Today finds me working for a charity called Wateraid, a group that works to bring water to the world’s poorest countries so that children who spend half their days fetching dirty water for their families can instead spend their time going to school. After a sob story like that I can’t very well feel sorry for myself about my current situation.

The house situation is still on hold. We met with the people the other night and looked over the house again and put down our deposit. The landlady, for whatever reason, is being a royal pain in the butt and is insisting on all sorts of random documentation before she can get back to us on whether or not we can move in. We’ve been dancing around trying to get everything in order, but we still haven’t heard any firm answer. She’s just an intermediary between us and the real landlord, who lives somewhere else and so can’t meet with us, so that slows things down a bit as well.

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Homeless, but not quite jobless

Monday, September 19th, 2005
Well, things are looking up. Kind of. I've now been in London about a week and a half and I am earning money, if only for a few days. After hours and days of searching and sending out my CV ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Pip pip, and all that

Monday, September 12th, 2005
While the longest schlep has come to an end, a new era of mini-schleps has begun. The location has changed, but the schlepping remains the same. I'm once again back in the UK. This time I'm not studying, I'm not visiting, ... [Continue reading this entry]

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