So swings the pendulum of life. After weeks (perhaps even months) of neglecting to live like a tourist and complaining about my working life taking over all other aspects of my existence, I find myself in a spell of unemployment. It will probably be short-lived, but for now the delicious prospect of idleness and all the possibilities such a gift of time offers, fills me with anticipation and promise of adventure. Time is quite literally my oyster.
The idea of unemployment, to someone who has been lucky enough never to have been unwillingly placed in such a position for longer than a week or two, is really rather glorious. Made especially sweet by the fact that the past 4 months have been a crazy haze of at times long and unsociable working hours and frequent six day weeks - "normality", apparently, for those who work in the TV industry, but life consuming all the same.
Knowing how much I was looking forward to some time off, I am determined to make the most of it. And after watching Julie and Julia last night, and then proceeding to fritter away the next 4 hours of my life by watching the entire series so far of Made in Chelsea (and I wish I could pretend it was all for the sake of background research for work), inspired me to set myself a similar (if less rigorous) goal to Julie of Julie and Julia (mainly to stop myself from getting addicted to any more ridiculously-terrible-but-addictive-in-their-ridiculousness TV shows.) I want to make the most of living in London and actually having the time to appreciate it. So, the challenge is set; to grab by the balls all that London has to offer and check out at least one new London sight/activity/venue/show/event/exhibition/whatever(!) every day that I'm here and unemployed. Let's see how that goes! I'll keep you posted....
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