Moving to London

In eight days, I will have finished all of my exams. I will never have to learn anything ever again (a thought which both depresses me and fills me with delight), but I will have to embark on the arduous and terrifying tasks which are Finding a Job and Finding Somewhere to Live. I spent my childhood feeling desperately excited about the day when I would finally be grown up and going to university, but I never really considered the fifty or so years remaining in my life after this point. So now I have to really be a grown up. My sister is going to move back from Germany, and I will no longer be 500 miles away from my best friend. The plan is for us to move to London and for me get a job in retail or catering until I can find a job in social media, PR, advertising or similar, and be wonderfully happy.

Things I am excited about:

Buying a bike
My bike got stolen in my first year at university, and I desperately miss having one and being able to get to places which are far away without having to get buses.

Having enough money to buy proper food every week.
Being a student for me has meant spending days just eating carrots, onions and pasta (just thinking about eating this mixture ever again gives me a cold sweat). It's going to be really wonderful just going to a Tesco once a week and buying the food I want. I don't even know how to do food shops anymore, if I try, I just end up buying much too little of things which don't even go together. Remembering what it is like to buy things is definitely a challenge which I am willing to take on.

Not being a student
Being a student means learning about interesting things, meeting great people, learning how to live on your own, doing exciting things, getting to know a new city and getting drunk so often that you start to feel a little unstable and shaky when you're sober. By the end though, I am just so sick of always feeling guilty if I'm not working, never having any money, and being in such a transition period. I want to get on with my life and find out what will happen next!

Living in London
I'm bored of Nottingham. I have done everything which I can think of to do. I want to do some other stuff. There's lots of stuff to do in London, it's a wonderful place, I am super excited.

Getting some fish
I haven't been able to have any pets at university, because you can't just move them around all of the time. I am going to get fish, and call them ridiculous names and feed them every day and hope that they never die.

Buying 'House things'
I want to make a house my own. I live in a student house with four other people, I can't exactly paint the bathroom purple and put up a print of a huge erect penis in the hallway. I don't necessarily want to do either of these things, but it would be nice to have the option.

Having a job
I want to have a job. I want to put some nice clothes on every day, and go to a place with heating and computers and think about things and do tasks and then go home again. A job has all of these wonderful features, and also the added bonus that every so often they will put some money into your bank account and then you will be able to exchange this money for goods and services.

Doing new things
London has book readings, gigs, stationary club, The Big Green Bookshop and thousands of other wonderful and exciting things which I can do.

I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait

Fucking scary though.