Unemployed

This is the first time I have had no job since I was 16.
And even then I am still tutoring. haha

It's a far cry from July-September when I was working full time Mon-Fri, doing census delivery and collection 7 days a week and tutoring on saturdays...

With 2 weeks to go things are a little crazy.

Well the only real things left to do are sell our car and pack.

But selling the car is proving to be the difficulty at the moment!

Anywho

13 mins

Hey 7 months ago i posted about having 7 months till I go overseas.....

It's now 13 minutes till I finish work and 3 weeks till I fly out.

Incredible!

That is all.

Dos Dias

Hey there

So there are only 10 working days till the end of my tenure at this work place.
I will be just shy of 3 years (by 10 days!)
And there are 5 weeks from today till I will be on a plane en route to the rest of my life.



Few things I've learnt this week:

1. 6 Star enviro friendly buildings are not necessarily 6 star people friendly buildings

2. Adelaide is dry - but the people are warm

3. Claratyne don't work when the hayfever weather don't quit

4. People who steal ipods from people's cars are a-holes

5. when you only have 2 weeks left of work you don't give a cr ap.

outtie

Moving Out and On

parts of life are necessarily frustrating I think.

take moving house for example. it has to have mishaps and problems, otherwise it's just not right. your truck load has to be too big to make one trip, and your booked storage unit has to be too small. you have to cut your hand and burn your fingers, put your back out and strain your neck. but in the end it always works out despite the fatigue and the arguments - you can always sit back and laugh.

it has come to my attention that certain people in the world - i won't name names - are incompetent fools. some, drunk on their own desire for career progression and glory, forget what it means to be in a team of colleagues. others deliberatly patronising and arrogant, tick people off to the limits where they just don't want to keep working. don't you hate puppets?



in other news i've resigned so the above will only matter to me for another 3 weeks.

with all the sunshine outside its amazing to think that working is actually one of those necessarily frustrating constraints on enjoyment of life we have to endure.

le mensonge donne des fleurs, mais pas de fruits
- Proverbe Africain

(Lies give flowers, but not fruit)

When 6 weeks became 4

I have a good friend who taught me to question difficult situations or decisions by asking "Will it matter in five years?"

It make you really not "sweat the small stuff" in life and puts so many mundane and ridiculous "problems" into perspective.

This week has been a particularly ordinary working week and with the "five years" question ringing in my ears - I decided to ask myself - will it matter in 6 weeks or hey, will it matter in 4?

With that in mind I've made the decision to resign from work on the 31st October and that way not have to even worry about all the "small stuff" that drives me bonkers.

On an unrelated matter let's just say that too much whisky and your girlfriends shoes don't match.

Pick a Card, Any Card

Today I am over the moon because I've got my VISA approved.
Not my 55 days interest free, low interest rate, no ongoing fee plastic fantastic card...
But my 2 year settlement visa for the UK!!!
Awesome!

That is all

Melbourne en Printemps

Well Spring certainly has sprung upon melbourne.
The sun is out, the temperature's warm and hayfever has set in.
I think it's probably there are three ideal times in Melbourne throughout the year:
1. January at Australian Open time - It's hot, the city buzzes and there is something good to watch on TV each night
2. May - It's cool, the leaves are changing colour, you can do all sorts of cool indoor's stuff like have coffee and go to galleries
3. September - It's warming up, you can start to picture summer days and you know the year is coming to a close.

When I was younger and had something bad to get through, I used to always picture what I would be doing immediately after that bad event and focus on how good it would feel to not have to do that thing anymore.
I applied this to all manner of bad events - music exams, music lessons, cricket matches on Saturday mornings and trips to the dentist.
I applied it to my trip to the dentist on Monday and it still works.
By the way I have 32 fully functional, hole-less and now very clean teeth!

The obligatory countdown:
43 work days.
58 days till no more work
68 days till we fly out!