I’ll give everyone a quick rundown of my life since, uh, 9 months ago.
Goddamn, has it been that long.
On August lst year I left utbox.net, after having been rewarded for turning the business profitable by being demoted. I took on a contract job at ThreatMetrix and worked there until Feb when I had enough money to live on until late May. This was going to be the break to make up for 3 years solid on-call duty.
So I spent a month doing nothing essentially. I was supposed to relax and get to work on a couple of projects but repeated harassment from the insurance company about the car crash more than a year ago didn’t help. I spent most of April visiting my sis in the US for the first time since she left for there about 3 years ago, and visiting my 2 neices for the first time ever, so that was good. But I also received notice, one week before the flight out, to get out of the place I was renting by end of May. I decided to visit the US anyway, leaving a month to move out. This turned out to be insufficient thanks to the state of the rental property market at the moment (I’m competing with 10-20 applications!), so now, after spending the last 4 weeks of my holiday plus another week packing and trying to find a place in vain, all my stuff is in storage and I’m staying with my mum in Penrith. Now I am living off my credit cards and still have to find some more work, then find a new home (somehow) whlie working full time in the city from Penrith. The move has/will cost a month of holiday and about $3500. Oh, and during all this I’m hopelessly in love with a girl that doesn’t want me.
After all that, I don’t feel like I’ve taken a break.
Goddammit everything better fall into place or I swear am going to go postal.
At least I got to see my nieces.