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Quite a year!
12 years ago
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I really hope everybody's been having a wonderful Christmas season, and/or their holiday of choice. :) It's been quite a year for me, in particular the last few months. Just to recap...
-I spent most of the year living in Aberdeen, Scotland with my partner Zel and still being a jobless bum, continuing to work away at an annoying and somewhat demoralising job hunt, though most other aspects of my life were being good.
-Then in October, one of my applications finally came back to me, wanting an interview right while I was in the middle of visiting my parents in the Florida Keys. I got the email informing me of the date literally as I was boarding the plane to fly overseas. So, in the middle of a family fishing holiday, I scrounged up a PC headset and gave a Skype interview at 7 am local time wearing the least offensive fishing/hawaiian shirt I had access to. When I came back from fishing that afternoon, an email was waiting to inform me that they'd hired me for the job. There was much squeeing.
-In the beginning of November I stuffed my entire material life into the back of a cute little Peugeot 107 and drove down the country from Aberdeen to Oxford, through horrendous traffic, giving me a nice trial by fire at handling a manual transmission in less than ideal conditions.
-I survived, and began my new job as a post-doctoral research fellow at Cranfield University, where I'll be doing environmental modelling on a project studying ecosystem services and biodiversity in urban green spaces. The job started off pretty intensely, throwing me in to teaching on topics I had to hurriedly teach myself a few days before lecturing. But I got through that too, and am feeling quite comfortable and capable in the job now.
-About a month later, Tarkara and I dashed up to Aberdeen to rent a van and help Zel move down to join us once the notice period at his job was done. With Zel moved in with Tarkara and Azakir and myself, we became at long last a household of four dragons, representing the completion of a trans-Atlantic plan that's been in the works for about ten years. More squeeing ensued.
-Finally all living together and desiring nothing more than some stability, the Thursday before Christmas we received a letter from our landlord informing us that they wished to sell the house we're renting and will not be renewing our lease, so by March we need to be out and in new accomodation. Some grumbling and harsh language was heard.
-We have begun shopping for a house to buy, which had been our plan for sometime in the next year or two, though originally not quite this soon. We're moving fast on it though, looking at some exciting options, and been pre-approved for a mortgage in our price range. We are hopeful and excited for finding a house that will suit us well and that we can settle down in for the long term.
-And, our first Christmas all living together as a dragon family has been pretty happy and special. I hope the same is true for all of you!
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-I spent most of the year living in Aberdeen, Scotland with my partner Zel and still being a jobless bum, continuing to work away at an annoying and somewhat demoralising job hunt, though most other aspects of my life were being good.
-Then in October, one of my applications finally came back to me, wanting an interview right while I was in the middle of visiting my parents in the Florida Keys. I got the email informing me of the date literally as I was boarding the plane to fly overseas. So, in the middle of a family fishing holiday, I scrounged up a PC headset and gave a Skype interview at 7 am local time wearing the least offensive fishing/hawaiian shirt I had access to. When I came back from fishing that afternoon, an email was waiting to inform me that they'd hired me for the job. There was much squeeing.
-In the beginning of November I stuffed my entire material life into the back of a cute little Peugeot 107 and drove down the country from Aberdeen to Oxford, through horrendous traffic, giving me a nice trial by fire at handling a manual transmission in less than ideal conditions.
-I survived, and began my new job as a post-doctoral research fellow at Cranfield University, where I'll be doing environmental modelling on a project studying ecosystem services and biodiversity in urban green spaces. The job started off pretty intensely, throwing me in to teaching on topics I had to hurriedly teach myself a few days before lecturing. But I got through that too, and am feeling quite comfortable and capable in the job now.
-About a month later, Tarkara and I dashed up to Aberdeen to rent a van and help Zel move down to join us once the notice period at his job was done. With Zel moved in with Tarkara and Azakir and myself, we became at long last a household of four dragons, representing the completion of a trans-Atlantic plan that's been in the works for about ten years. More squeeing ensued.
-Finally all living together and desiring nothing more than some stability, the Thursday before Christmas we received a letter from our landlord informing us that they wished to sell the house we're renting and will not be renewing our lease, so by March we need to be out and in new accomodation. Some grumbling and harsh language was heard.
-We have begun shopping for a house to buy, which had been our plan for sometime in the next year or two, though originally not quite this soon. We're moving fast on it though, looking at some exciting options, and been pre-approved for a mortgage in our price range. We are hopeful and excited for finding a house that will suit us well and that we can settle down in for the long term.
-And, our first Christmas all living together as a dragon family has been pretty happy and special. I hope the same is true for all of you!
<3
I miss you lots and hope that the move to the house goes well. I know that it will. Get on skype or something sometime so that we can do the catching up and huggings.
sorry but for me I want to simply nuke 2013 with exploding fire. 2014 is MY year. it better be. *grumblegrumble* *shakefist* *Clint Eastwood 95-year-old steeled get-the-hell-off-my-lawn-face, damn good-for-nothin' 2013, gritjaws*