I am predictable in the infrequency of my blogging, but then again, it has only been about 6 weeks i.e. the WAYS with Words Festival (as I learnt pretty quickly then decided to ignore), since I last wrote here. I do, of course, have several reasons for restarting this. Firstly, I have ignored perhaps the biggest milestone in my recent life, that being my unofficial university graduation in June! Now university and all the joys and woes and ways of life that it entailed is over, I'm getting nostalgic and wishing I could be back (just as all my friends who went to uni before me have said). It was a fun few weeks after everything was over, spending time lazing in my room doing colouring or watching The Vampire Diaries (which I am so sad - yet proud - to say I have finished!) and cooking, or going out on long walks along the Plymouth and Cornish coast (and I mean LONG walks, like maybe 6 or 7 miles?) Of course, when it came time to go home, I was equally relieved to get out of that house as I was reluctant. I could put up with my Dutch housemate Tim and all irritations (every surface in the kitchen is perpetually wet or covered in coffee grinds, empty loo rolls never go in the conveniently provided peddle bins, he forgets to inform me of when he is having visitors, stuff like that) but I also wanted a clean, easy home to live in. Now I'm here, I miss the independence and the freedom to do what I want/go where I want ALONE. My sister and I have discussed how dissimilar we are in terms of our social needs - she is more extroverted and thrives in company, whereas I am more introverted and prefer my own company, yet I feel compelled now I am home to always be in company, not out of choice, but obligation. Oh, and that leads me to another reminder. This desire for my own company and all the potential self-centredness it entails has somehow backfired on me because the repercussions of the in-house problems I endured at the start of third year are somehow MY FAULT?! I won't expand too far on why, but by trying to 'save my own skin', I have somehow ruined the lives of both the people in the house (who will obviously remain anonymous) despite it never being about me in the first place. I knew something was going to go wrong when I said I needed a place where I could just settle down and get on with my dissertation. Granted, I managed to get a First on said dissertation in spite of all that trouble and changing of housemates, but that doesn't stop it being the cruelest bit of irony ever.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, the second reason why I have restarted this blog. I had my first job interview since 2013 yesterday, and I must say, I think it went pretty well. It is in Knightsbridge, London - a super posh area, which shows in the interior of the building this company is based in, and I know Jackson will be jealous of that, because he has been dreaming of that sort of lifestyle, I know it. If luck goes my way, I will get the job and this blog will be as much a means to record how that job goes as practice for helping with a blog they want to set up. If not, and I am rejected (yet again), this will be where I can simply chart my life's progress until the next opportunity. It should keep my writing in shape too (I hope), which would be the third reason for the reboot.
But for now, I think that is all the information I have to impart. My sister is currently back on holiday from her new job in Cardiff as a Junior Animator, and it's so great to have her around, even if she is leaving again today. So I should probably return to the land of the social for the time being and check back in again tomorrow. Let's hope I can remember/have something worthwhile to tell you.
