Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Movie Montage

So, as I mentioned previously, I'm currently homeless. Ok, so not homeless. I'm not yet turning to the Big Issue for gainful employment. But the lease came to an end on the flatshare I was in, and I didn't manage to find somewhere new in time. Lucky for me, my downstairs neighbour had a room she normally rents out but is empty until June, so I'm staying with her at the moment. Essentially I've had a reprieve for awhile and I can keep looking without a deadline looming. The trouble with the whole moving and looking for a place thing is that it can feel like you have been doing if forever. Though in fairness to me I have been looking for over 5 weeks now, which is a lifetime when you're just looking for a decent room in a friendly flatshare. It's just one of those things in life that I wish I could experience 'movie montage' style: set against a peppy soundtrack I'm shown visiting a variety of amusing places before finding the home of my dreams, all in the time it takes for a verse and a chorus. Apparently though, life is not like that. I'm doomed to obsessively checking www.gumtree.com and www.moveflat.com all the live-long day, tramping out to see various abodes and making endless polite conversation about kitchens and queues for the shower. I think now I may have reached saturation point. I need a break from it all, before all my social skills disintegrate. Wish me luck.

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