Sunday afternoon, 'relaxing'.

It's Sunday again, as it has a habit of being every 7 days or so.
I'm not doing a whole lot today, just kind of recuperating. I'm not hang over, just tired from work and kind of sick - a cold or something.
Went out and watched the game last night, of course. I went to one of the 'Walkabout' bars in downtown, which is kind of the hang out for Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans [ I went there last week for the cricket and rugby as well]. Although I've been trying to avoid 'going and finding my own' instead of living in London properly, when things like the rugby are on you kind of have to do it. It was interesting that the majority of the New Zealanders there who we spoke to were from Wellington. Oh yeah, I haven't explained the 'we' - when I walked into the bar last Sunday for the England game, as soon as I walked through the door this guy came up to me and went "ALAN!"... One of the guys I used to work with at DSE (Brendon) is living in London now. Even more amusing was the fact that Linda, a friend of my girlfriend in 5th form, who also on at least one occassion 'got cosy' with David [which I'm sure they're both appreciate my outing them here] was also there. I'm not entirely sure how Brendon and Linda knew each other but apparently they did previously.

So, Work... Well, I am getting this feeling that work is going to suck on a number of levels for the next two months. 1) From the 20th, I have to jump on the train to go somewhere one hour away (which is rather annoying after taking this job based in 'Central London'), and 2) My responsibilities are rapidly moving away from technical work and towards menial 'business' work. As a double kicker, this is what leads to 1) - if I was doing proper technical work (i.e. programming) I would be sitting in the office in London. Arse.

I'm still looking for somewhere to live, vaguely, but I've kind of accepted that I'm going to wait until I get paid in December to actually find/move into a place. I could transfer money over from the US, but I get the feeling that it might take that long to find an appropriate place anyway. Part of the problem being, I'm still not sure what 'appropriate' means. I think I'll end up going for the spending more money option because honestly, I'm not really willing to live somewhere that's beneath my standards.

I shifted hostels yesterday too (again). Hopefully I'll be staying where I am now until I move into a flat. We'll just have to wait and see about that.