WE FOUND A ROOM!!!

after all of 2 days of looking (it was a long and arduous journey), Lou and i have managed to secure ourselves long-term lodgings. at 130Pound/week, it's actually reasonably cheap, especially for the area, and it's about 50 metres from the front of the Oval tube station. this puts us right on the Northern line, which intersects at various points with enough lines and buses to get us... well, pretty much wherever we need to go for work. i'm pretty excited by it all - guaranteed stability, a place of our own, all that sort of thing.

about that - it's actually a room with 2 single beds in it, shared with a chinese couple and one other, but then that's pretty much what this place is like. it's sharehouses for anyone who doesn't have more money than god, or doesn't mind spending most of their income on their accomodation. i have no time for this, and no intention of signing a lease or whatever so renting a room is more than fine with me.

whatever the case, in another couple of weeks (the room won't be empty until the 30th, although we may be able to be in a couple of days earlier) we'll be moving into this little place and of course photos will be forthcoming. there's a likelihood that there'll be a backerpackers stint between now and then, but at least we know that we're secure after that and there are other options in play that i'll discuss if they come about.

in other news, i've spent the last 2 days reworking my CV for the UK market and then comprehensively whoring it out to all and sundry. i've had a couple of decent bites out of it so far - it's been referred to the client twice today (which means i'm in the top 3-6), and i'm in meeting a pimp tomorrow morning to discuss "opportunities in the market". all in all, apart from being tired and passing out at 11:00 each night (yes, scary i know) it's been a good, productive day. oh, and ignoring the whole "stuck in the tube" thing - i'm going to drink away the memory of that later at the pub.

yay! a visit to a real english pub with real english people... ok, an english girl and a scot but who's counting...