Llin/Cathryn ([info]cosmic_llin) wrote,
@ 2008-10-05 15:47:00
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I'm back in London!
When I got into Euston I was so happy I nearly cried... I'm such a dumbass.
But work aren't giving me any shifts because business is bad, and they haven't paid me for the shifts I did before I left... so I'm in London with no money, so as usual I can't leave the house or buy anything, or indeed eat anything but pasta... So pretty much as usual.
Oh, everything was looking so good for a while there... I had a decent medium-term temping assignment and evening work, I was really getting stuff together. *sigh* And now it could be ages before I have work again. I obviously had to go home, but the timing sure could have been better.
I'm so sick of this. I just want a regular income that's enough so that I can have fun sometimes and put a bit away for a rainy day. But now I'm afraid to apply for things because I don't know when I'll be needed at home.
Although, Mum wants to have a go at managing without me there and see how it goes, so I'm in town for at least a couple of weeks, and I may only be going up at weekends. And she's encouraging me to apply for graduate jobs, so I guess she doesn't want to shake up my life too much...
So I'm doing that, but I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get to any potential job interviews without any money for transport. We'll see.

The silver lining in all this cloud is my friends. I've been so touched by how great everyone has been. Thank you all for your supportive comments, offers of cake etc! [info]penguin2, thank you so much for being all wise and stuff, and for sending me lovely things! [info]ladyvivien, you are an angel, thank you for all your calls!

Housemates are out tonight, so I'm going to try and spend the evening writing, since that's a part of my life I've been neglecting quite badly recently. I really want to get going with it again.
I'm certainly not going to do what I did last night, and resolve to spend the evening writing, and then instead eat peanuts and chocolate and watch the whole of Caves of Androzani, no sirree!



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[info]deccaboo
2008-10-05 10:07 pm UTC (link)
Hey, just a note before I go to bed! We should keep in touch with the writing thing, I know you have your Starbucks thing going with Kaite, but if you're feeling poor and not particularly motivated I'll certainly read over your stuff if you need some new eyes. I'm going to need lots of prodding to carry on writing, I'm feeling a bit sluggish at the moment and the only thing I can write is Supernatural fic. I need to end this!

Have lots of fun and enjoy appreciating London :)

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[info]cosmic_llin
2008-10-06 06:14 pm UTC (link)
Hello!
I realised, I meant to include you in my list of big thank yous, but somehow I don't think of you and Vonnie as LJ people any more! But thank you very much all the same, it was really great to see you, it proper cheered me up!
Yes, writing stuff is good! We should email each other progress reports.
Throw aside your Supernatural fic! You're worthy of so much more! I command you to work on your time travel cupboard thingy!

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[info]deccaboo
2008-10-06 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Tis fine! I know you appreciate me! *cheesy grin of doom*

I am working on it as much as I can. I'm stalling a bit because I can't find the right tone for the beginning and I have no idea who I'm writing for. Maybe I should just write for myself and see what happens...! I really want to read some of your novel!

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[info]penguin2
2008-10-06 12:57 am UTC (link)
Argh buggrit! I slept in HUGELY - until 10.55 - owing to general Illness stuff and Pet Abscess stuff, so now it's the middle of the night and I can't ring, waaah! Oh well, I'll ring you on your landline in the morning (yours) and see if I can roust [info]sashavangenius out of bed instead :-)

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[info]cosmic_llin
2008-10-06 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, did you call? Sash and I were out for a while...
Anything that gets her out of bed before one in the afternoon has to be a good thing - this place is like a ghost flat until lunchtime most days...
Oh my gosh, I just watched today's SJA and I am FREAKED OUT. But in the good way.
Hope you're less ill and unbothered by abscesses today!

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[info]penguin2
2008-10-07 12:00 pm UTC (link)
Oops, every time it's a reasonable time to call I've been either sleeping ridiculously long hours (Illness thing) or out someplace where it's been too noisy to ring :-( I'll try again tomorrow morning, because ATM I'm having Bad Brain (no worries, just a passing cluster of Sister Hyde chemical thingies) and wouldn't be much good at conversation!

We just got back from a truly sub-mediocre fillum - Babylon AD - and Himself wants to watch both Sarahs, Smith and Connor, but I'm more in a mood to answer my LJ comments and then curl up with the second half of the new Artemis Fowl book...which should take me an hour or less, and then we'll see how I feel :-)

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