There’s Always Next Year!

Today was a sunny day I think… I wouldn’t know of course as that pleasure has been taken away from me since I joined the world of retail and signed the contract which stated ‘I must stay pale.’ I come home to my parents and boyfriend who have gleefully caught ‘the sun’ and I suddenly thought how in this incidence, I’m always doing the chasing, and never the catching!

Living in the UK means that summer is short, winter is long and that over the years, the thought of that summer sun is only associated with trips over the ocean, no matter which one it is! As a consequence of this unfortunate upbringing, you start to like the winter, look forward the snow and just can’t wait to get those wooly jumpers out of the wardrobe!

Today was a day like many others, a day that prompted jealousy. As the numerous people in short shorts walked by and those unpainted toe nails came out to greet once again, I stood by my desk and hoped that somewhere and somehow, those BBQ burgers were burning, those flowery deck chairs were snapping and finally that that one cloud up in the sky has decided that he wants the sun all to himself!

Oh well, there’s always next year…

Neither here nor there!

Here I am at 5am, UK time after another night of absent sleep. After gloriously sunning myself and travelling around the beauty that is America for the past three weeks, I find myself hanging on to San Francisco through no fault of my own. As a result I believe that my first post should be appropriately named neither here nor there as I am in fact, neither here… Nor there.

As I lay here thinking and wondering about where my life is going (as most people do when ITV NightScreen has graced their TV screen), I get to thinking how appropriate the title of my post is to my lifestyle. I have now left University and after being awarded a First Class Honours in Advertising and Marketing I am in the pressuring situation to follow the standard “unwritten rules” and find a job as quickly as possible. I currently have a small part time job but again I am finding myself in the situation of being neither unemployed or fully employed! However, in this case I am desperately applying for 20 jobs a night to find myself here rather than leaving my current job and finding myself there…

My current situation, although sometimes disheartening, is on the other hand fulfilling and I am as excited as all those women out there reading E. L. James’ 50 Shades of Gray, after pressing the ‘send application’ and patiently waiting for that [rejection] email!

Therefore, after careful consideration I have decided to start a blog and allow my everlasting, interesting (sometimes complicated) thoughts into other people’s minds to see, as most, if there is anybody really out there in this small small world.