I try to keep this log positive, not wanting to sound like a whiner. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all, right? Well the past few weeks have been really crappy. Things felt like they were going so well. And then I get sick, like really badly sick, for over a week, which blows my entire gym/running routine to hell. And none of my job prospects works out and on top of that my scooter gets broken into (while I'm at a second interview, after which I was turned down for "not having enough experience" HELLO? Why call me back a second time if you don't think I am qualified??) and ALL of my stuff is stolen. Which means no photos for a while, seeing as how not only did they get my wallet, mobile phone, leather jacket, motorcycle helmet and all my notes from my course, but they also stole my digital camera. Its like I fell into some big black hole, and I'm just slowly climbing my way out. I postponed my bookclub meeting last week, I just didn't have the energy to leave the house or talk to anyone. When things get really bad I also get super homesick. I hate living here with all the extra crap I have to put up with when I could be back in San Francisco with my friends and nice weather and possibly even a job. That’s the worse part about interviews: lying about how much I LOVE London and whatnot. Really I can take it or leave it. No actually I would prefer to leave this shitpile for someplace on the seaside where I can go surfing and breathe salty air and sell sea shells for a living.
hey you - i am pretty sure it doesn't make you a whiner when something totally shitty happens to you and you talk about it. i am so angry, so bummed for you. maybe i come visit you soon. as if that will make anything better, but hell, at least we can go have a drink. god damn it. well, i hope you know that i care and that i'm thinking of you and wishing better shit would start happening, like NOW.
I'm so sorry, Shannon. That is fucking rotten. If you came back here, even to visit, we would make sure you had the BEST time. And you can come back, if you want to! I am totally sending you an invitation to my wedding and I really hope you will be here. I miss you and I smile when I think of you.
jees that sucks.
hopefully at least you still have your health.
mom says "hi" anyway - stay strong, big camper... no one said being an ultrahip expat would be easy.
jamie.
come to mama ... dont have ur friends or the hills of SF, but there is plently of sun, surf & shells and the salty air ur lungs grew up on ... seriously, i'll find a way to get u here if u need a break ... (and ur the LEAST whiney person i know!)
luvs
mom