Dear Reader,
I haven't written for a while as I have been waiting for some news about a job. I had attended two interviews, the second for which I had to prepare a presentation, and was subsequently told that they were choosing between me and one other person. I had beaten six other people.
So I had been waiting for almost three weeks for a decision and whether they would give me the job or not. On Tuesday this week I decided to send them an email reaffirming my interest in the job and gently enquiring about a decision. They responded ever so quickly: they are going to decide in a month.
Feeling slightly despondent I started thinking about what I might do instead. I have been doing some freelance PR for a budding poet who used to be homeless, John Smallshaw, and am going to continue doing that for the time being. He had a radio interview on Wedneday for the London Festival Fringe which was very exciting so things are definitely on the move there.
Yesterday I spent the day with my Mum in court (don't worry, she's not a criminal, just a barrister!) and then met B and some of his law friends from College for a drink. We were having a really nice evening and B suggested we all went to get some food. No one else was really interested though so the two of us went to find a restaurant. But after ten minutes B suddenly decided that he wanted to go home. I was crushed because with him studying so hard I had been so excited to be out socialising and having fun with him. I had also envisaged a romantic meal in Soho with some nice food and some proper catch up time.
We arrived back home and I felt so upset I barely wanted to look at, let alone speak to, B. We had lost each other on the walk from the tube to our flat and he had gone via Waitrose to buy some nice food for us to eat instead of going to a restaurant. I really didn't feel like eating though.
Eventually we talked and we ate the food and things seemed a little better. This morning I felt unbearably low and lonely though and B found me crying into the sofa. The radio was playing Eva Cassidy's 'Time After Time' which really didn't help!
We talked again and decided that we should have lunch once a week as well as doing something on Saturday evening. Currently, we have the Saturday night rule which means B is not allowed to work and we take it in turns organising the evening. This year demands a lot from him and there are not many moments when he is able to relax and have a break from his studying. I had started to feel a little neglected though. I know that he does not mean to make me feel that way and it is the demands of this year bur hopefully having lunch together too will help.
Today was full of surprises, the lagest of which was going up the London Eye and drinking Champagne! I have just become a member of the alumni committee of the university I went to and attended my first meeting this evening. Afterwards, we were able to go on the London Eye for free as one of the guys works for a company who's client is the London Eye. We had a very helpful guide, Nina, who popped open some Champagne for us and pointed out lots of London landmarks that could be seen from the pod we were in. So many iconic buildings from Buckingham Palace to Somerset House can all be seen from the high climbs of the London Eye. All of London sparkled beneath us and it was quite breath taking to watch it all as we slowly climbed above the city. Enjoying a glass of Champgane just made it perfect.
Afterwards I came home to be with B, especially after the events of last night/this morning and now we are going to bed................
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