london calling...
i'm moving to london this weekend. woo! the big smoke! the bright lights...err...yeah.
to be perfectly honest, i don't think this is one of my smartest decisions. or maybe this is the first time, i'm moving to a new place with no sense of what is going to happen next. Every town I've moved to as always been with a particular purpose, i.e. i live here because i go to uni here.
with london- i'm moving there because...
well there are a variety of reasons, the most obvious is that i can afford the rent while i finish up my thesis and wait till i've been offered some sort of teaching to bump up my income. the other is that my lease expires before my thesis is due (and no, i can't extend the lease)
there are obviously pros and cons with this move (maybe I should adopt Darwin's approach and make a list) but sometimes i wonder if 1 con is equivalent to a couple of pros? it's hard too because, everyone assumes that it would be great to move to London well except for...me. i have come to discover that I'm not really a fan of big cities. Everywhere takes a while to get too and with London in particular, it's just full of tourists. Sure there are heaps of things to do, but i think (in fact, i will be) pretty skint the next couple of months so i doubt i would be able to partake in many of these activities.
so now i'm 2 sleeps away from a new place in a big town and i'm feeling pretty ambivalent about it all. perhaps because the decision has already been made and there's no turning back. maybe cause it is time to move on and i haven't realised yet, and this is the required kick-up-the-bum that i need.
whatever it is, i will be moving to london this weekend.
to be perfectly honest, i don't think this is one of my smartest decisions. or maybe this is the first time, i'm moving to a new place with no sense of what is going to happen next. Every town I've moved to as always been with a particular purpose, i.e. i live here because i go to uni here.
with london- i'm moving there because...
well there are a variety of reasons, the most obvious is that i can afford the rent while i finish up my thesis and wait till i've been offered some sort of teaching to bump up my income. the other is that my lease expires before my thesis is due (and no, i can't extend the lease)
there are obviously pros and cons with this move (maybe I should adopt Darwin's approach and make a list) but sometimes i wonder if 1 con is equivalent to a couple of pros? it's hard too because, everyone assumes that it would be great to move to London well except for...me. i have come to discover that I'm not really a fan of big cities. Everywhere takes a while to get too and with London in particular, it's just full of tourists. Sure there are heaps of things to do, but i think (in fact, i will be) pretty skint the next couple of months so i doubt i would be able to partake in many of these activities.
so now i'm 2 sleeps away from a new place in a big town and i'm feeling pretty ambivalent about it all. perhaps because the decision has already been made and there's no turning back. maybe cause it is time to move on and i haven't realised yet, and this is the required kick-up-the-bum that i need.
whatever it is, i will be moving to london this weekend.