Oh well, apologies for not posting for weeks, but I like to be an upbeat, optimistic person, and everything has been so terrible recently that I just wanted to hide and cry. But I’ve resolved to be upbeat EVEN ABOUT THE BAD THINGS.
Well, before Christmas there was a huge rush to finish work for this company, which made me quite optimistic that we’d all keep our jobs and everything would be fine, etc. But there was a huge meeting a week ago and we were told we were all ‘being let go’. A few people are staying on, in case things get better, but not me. And I’ve only been with this company three years so I will not get much redundancy.
I’ve been frantically looking for work since, but the problem is that it’s expensive living in London, so I can’t just work in a sandwich shop or something. And meanwhile, it’s weird going round the shops and seeing how cheap everything is (that I can’t afford to buy). It’s like how people describe a tsunami: this weird thing happens of the sea retreating. And then there are all these huge fish flapping in pools, and you think; ‘Wow! Free treats and bargains!’ And you don’t realise what a horrible thing is coming over the horizon.
Incidentally, what IS going to happen? Does anyone know? Will all the shops shut? Will armies of grey-faced unemployed be trudging along the motorways? Will money become worthless? (In which case, I’ll be happy, as my overdraft will be meaningless.)
Rache has decided to go and live in Greece. Vasilius has found her a job working in a café run by another cousin of his, and she says she doesn’t care if it doesn’t work out with him. All Greek men are so gorgeous (in her opinion) that she’ll just find another one. She was wondering if I’d like to have her evil cat, Oskar, but I said No! She’s just going to release him on to the streets if I don’t take him, as she reckons there will be too many cats in animal shelters and he doesn’t stand a chance there.
It feels like the end of so many things,
Anyhoo, I’m going to post every few days now, filling you in on what happened over Christmas etc. So no more long long gaps.
