I handed in my keys to the studio in Bristol today, and took the train back to London for what should be my last time. For the past three months I have been commuting late night every Sunday and Tuesday. It has been a strange stop-start existence, a stark contrast against my packed 17 hour day lifestyle over the past year. When I have made it ( Read more... )

I just had a bath, a really hot bath, and I realised after 9 months I am no longer homeless. A couple of recent events means I am now committed to living back with my parents in London 5 days a week. It makes me laugh actually. Not some dramatic resurrection or symbolic assertive transition. Instead I realise with a mere passing thought that my ( Read more... )

So the other week I went to starbucks and their promotion was to get customers to introduce themselves, to make things more personal. Not only service with a smile, we're all faux-friends too. Great ( Read more... )

Well, things are permanently over between Lana and I. I received a letter from her that really gave no choice - not just in her words (which were crystal clear), but no choice by virtue of the way things have developed between us over the past 7 months ( Read more... )

March. Month 8 of homelessness. I thought 6 was going to be the landmark... now I'm not far from 12 ( Read more... )

2012 is thundering along. On my supervisors time scale I should have the final version of my thesis handed in this week but it is not going to happen. He also said dates are flexible, so long as I graduate before September. That's not particularly helpful. I'm also a bit nervous that it is my second supervisors turn to review my thesis and I ( Read more... )

I have worked hard in the past 8 months. My life has transformed into working around the clock. I have been juggling two full-time commitments because I have invested heavily in them both and I would like them to pay off. Lana broke off the relationship, which I feel was the natural and only progression for us both. By challenging myself, my ( Read more... )

A week ago I had to demonstrate a component of the big side project. I had the work done ahead of schedule, I even tested the day before demo. The demo went great. I got annoyed that people weren't really listening to me. It was supposed to be informal, but whenever I tried to highlight an issue I would get spoken over. I became apathetic. I ( Read more... )

The past few weeks have been pretty intense. I've taken on the secretarial role at the start up business. The previous person did a good job on the books, although there are a number of things I would have done differently. It is tricky taking on someone else's work, or anything that is halfway through. I have become quite engrossed in the ( Read more... )

This evening Lana broke up with me. Some how I knew it was coming. I'm upset that I let things go so far that she felt compelled to do so. Whilst I was in San Francisco I was paranoid there was going to be an earthquake, I even thought I felt tremors, so maybe I've just been abnormally paranoid. There were some tell-tale signs though, like a ( Read more... )