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Three days ago I visited my favourite
shopping mall where, laden with the knowledge that I will
soon be receiving a salary in excess of anything I’ve ever
known, I went on one of my compulsive spending sprees. The
fact that I won’t actually receive a pay check for another
month or so did not seem to seep into the rational parts of
my brain. Now I have looked at my accounts and have discovered
that next month’s rent maybe somewhat beyond me. This, along
with the scary idea of starting a new job and the ongoing
humid weather, is giving me restless, dream full sleeps, a
nervous stomach and a slight sense of panic.
OOOh well. It’s a temporary problem
at least.
We’ve been busy moving stuff out
of the old office, cleaning the apartment, catching up with
friends and trying to take it easy before we start work on
Monday. Big-P is pretty stoked, after spending a couple of
hours with his new work mates yesterday, but I feel like time
is slipping away and there is so much I want to be doing before
I knuckle down to 10 hour days and recovering weekends.
I got an email the other morning
from my lovely friend and old house mate Easy-e – all the
way from New York. I guess I’m not a particularly good mate
if I didn’t even know she was moving to New York – plus she
just dropped this into the email : “I start work at Ms Magazine
tomorrow, and I'm pretty amped about it.” – yeegads!
Ms Magazine? Last time I spoke to her she was working
on a novel, doing a little editing at Looksmart and writing
stuff for magazines in her spare time. How much can change
in 3 months! I guess the same could be said about me. Can
you believe it’s the end of February already? It feels
like only yesterday that I was stocking up on Y2k water supplies…
thank goodness it’s a leap year – that will slow things down
a little.
xx
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