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A few days ago I realized I let my 6-month anniversary with Londinium go by unremarked...not too broken up about that as I don't really tend to make a fuss about those things, but it's interesting to look back at my paper journal and compare the state of things now to back in September.
School-wise I am about where I expected to be back in the fall. I have but two class days left in the term, a reasonable schedule for examination papers, and a super awesome dissertation supervisor. Cool beans.
For living in a city full of people, I've realized I sure don't spend a lot of quality time with them. That really ought to change, especially considering at least three of my superfriends are leaving the UK between now and the fall. Sadface for me, but happies for them, because they are moving forward in the directions that they want.
Speaking of that, I have been feeling pretty stuck. Waiting is awful for me. I hate not-knowing, or worse, knowing where I want to go and then just being stuck in a holding pattern. This is why I left Japan, came here, and got my learn on once again. It is proving a lot harder to get my jobthing on than I anticipated. Once again I'm on the edge of my seat waiting on the results of an interview for a position at which I would ROCK, and I am inwardly quaking a bit at the thought of another closed door, another week of frantically going nowhere.
Thankfully I am lucky enough to have supportive friends and a loving family who want to help me however they are able until I get back to relative self-sufficiency. I heart you guys, you keep me from curling up on the couch and giving up when I've got books to read & springtime to enjoy.
And on the topic of helping people, I have been largely internets-silent on the topic of the Touhoku quake because it's all over everywhere in London's media, my housemate hears about it every day at work, and we both have been through lots of anxiety for our fellow JETs and friends who are in Japan. Plus, being without disposable income has left me feeling a bit of really frickin' useless in terms of helping out.
However, this week I saw ginnyseta link some uplifting and relief-focused sites, so thought I could at least pass those on.
If you want to contribute to the relief efforts in a creative fashion, or bid on some truly fabulous creative stuff & things - some of them edible! - check out help_japan
If like me you believe that human life is valuable but so too is all life, and that family pets deserve better than a 72-hour euthanasia window, you can show some love to several organizations making an effort to reduce the animal casualties and generally improve standards of treatment for pets in Japan.
School-wise I am about where I expected to be back in the fall. I have but two class days left in the term, a reasonable schedule for examination papers, and a super awesome dissertation supervisor. Cool beans.
For living in a city full of people, I've realized I sure don't spend a lot of quality time with them. That really ought to change, especially considering at least three of my superfriends are leaving the UK between now and the fall. Sadface for me, but happies for them, because they are moving forward in the directions that they want.
Speaking of that, I have been feeling pretty stuck. Waiting is awful for me. I hate not-knowing, or worse, knowing where I want to go and then just being stuck in a holding pattern. This is why I left Japan, came here, and got my learn on once again. It is proving a lot harder to get my jobthing on than I anticipated. Once again I'm on the edge of my seat waiting on the results of an interview for a position at which I would ROCK, and I am inwardly quaking a bit at the thought of another closed door, another week of frantically going nowhere.
Thankfully I am lucky enough to have supportive friends and a loving family who want to help me however they are able until I get back to relative self-sufficiency. I heart you guys, you keep me from curling up on the couch and giving up when I've got books to read & springtime to enjoy.
And on the topic of helping people, I have been largely internets-silent on the topic of the Touhoku quake because it's all over everywhere in London's media, my housemate hears about it every day at work, and we both have been through lots of anxiety for our fellow JETs and friends who are in Japan. Plus, being without disposable income has left me feeling a bit of really frickin' useless in terms of helping out.
However, this week I saw ginnyseta link some uplifting and relief-focused sites, so thought I could at least pass those on.
If you want to contribute to the relief efforts in a creative fashion, or bid on some truly fabulous creative stuff & things - some of them edible! - check out help_japan
If like me you believe that human life is valuable but so too is all life, and that family pets deserve better than a 72-hour euthanasia window, you can show some love to several organizations making an effort to reduce the animal casualties and generally improve standards of treatment for pets in Japan.