house hunting

House hunting is a crazy business. It's mixed with either short bursts of excitement and fun (when you find something you like), other short bursts of exhausted/hopelessness (like when you see frightful places) and long periods of boredom and killing time while you wait for an apointment with nothing to do in the meantime.

it is also strange because you spend half your time concealing your disinterest over a room or potential housemantes, because you dont want to offend them, and the other half trying to show interest and trying to get along with people who you aren't even sure you want to live with yet...

It is an in and out business where you dont have time to decide or think about if you actually want to live somewhere, until you are walking down the street or sitting down for coffee in one of your interim periods of boredom... and by that time you just have to hope that you said all the right things, and that your decision in hindsight (to live or not to live somewhere) matches the impression you gave during your whirlwind tour of hellos and introductions.

so yes, its pretty exhausting. but all in all I havent lost hope. I've got some good leads, and if nothing comes up by this weekend, I have plans to collect a bunch of other homeless MA students and put us together to form a frankenstein-like monster home full of other desolate and homeless students.

so that's where I'm at right now... fun times!

anyway, on a cheery note the more time I spend waiting around to see places in Brighton the more and more I am falling in love with the city and the more excited I am about living here, when and if I find a place to live. Once I get settled into somewhere to live, assess my budget and find a job I think I will have a good time exploring and learning to live in this city!

anyhoo, that's it for me right now. please excuse the temporary hiatus on my photo blog, while I am collecting photos I have stopped carrying my laptop with me everyday and I have been using internet cafe's in lieu because it makes for a lighter load to carry. As a result of this, I have not been able to connect my camera up for uploading pictures... but sooner or later I'll find a way to get it updated.

- C