This post is in sections so that you do not have to read it all!
[job subjectmatter="Very Boring!!!"]I'm at work right now, chuffin' along. I'm 1.5 hours into my shift already and while to many of you that would feel like a decent portion of it gone already, I'm barely feeling a pinprick. It's surprising how much you adapt to that way of life when you put yourself in it - I know I've 12 hours to run, so I don't start getting excited except at around midday (half way gone YAY-ness) and then at about 5pm. I could hold my excitement until 5:30pm but at 5:30pm the phones go so crazy I've barely enough time to think, let alone celebrate near end of shift, so at 5pm I celebrate, answer a few (hundred) calls and suddenly it's 6pm and my replacement arrives and I start packing off home!
[/job]That was a long way to say I don't feel excited about 1.5 hours of work completed so far eh? Anyway, I didn't come on here to bore you all with long tales of my job, I know I tell most of you about it enough anyway, both on here and in person for some of you. I came on here to discuss (well one sided discussion I know, but hey) my possible future living arrangements.
[Dad's Situation]My Dad recently got a job in Singleton. Some of you reading this (most of you are central coasties anyway!) will know that's out west of Newcastle. He has moved up there for his new job. He lost his old job back in February and got this new job around the end of October. He moved up there into a small rental house for a few weeks on a week-by-week lease basis, then moved into a larger house just last week. He drives up there on Monday morning at about 4am and goes straight to work. He works through the week and on Friday night he packs up his computer and comes straight back to Sydney. On weekends he is in Sydney with us but I work all day and so only see him for about 2-3 hours a week, between me getting home at 7pm (or 7:30pm or 8pm depending on how busy it is at work before I leave) and him going to sleep to get enough sleep and keep his early rising rhythm, at about 9:30pm.
[/Dad's Situation][Margaret's Situation]As a result of him getting this newer larger house, Margaret goes up there two or three nights a week. She works two night and two day shifts per week as a nurse, and looks after Nina (my two year old sister for those of you who don't know) most of the time. Margaret goes to visit Dad during the week and also her mother, who lives a bit south of Newcastle. One of the days that she works is Sunday night, and she gets home at around 7am. This means that I look after Nina from 4am to 7am by having her dumped on my bed by Dad just before he leaves.
[/Margaret's Sitation][My Sitation]Having now finished uni exams I'm doing fun friends trips (like going to Pearl Beach this coming week with uni friends YAAAAAAAY) and working weekends and whatever other shifts they throw my way, which are extremely numerous as we're about to lose another two operators. With Margaret considering moving permanently up with Dad if he likes the job enough to keep it through the new year, the income from renting the house and helping me with renting a small place is going to be better for Dad than leaving me in the house myself and renting out one or two rooms to one or two of my friends. I'm therefore looking forward with excitement and trepidation to the possibility of moving out on my own. Until then I'm living many a night at home alone.
I am working 6am-6pm Saturday and Sunday. On Monday early morning I'm given Nina, which is enough to wake me, and have to calm Nina while she spends the next three hours jumping up and down, rolling, shifting, calling for Mum, going off looking for her or rubbing my mouth and chin. Fridays I have my good D&D friends around from about 6pm-10... or 11 or midnigt. This cuts out a large portion of my weeks. I've got rehearsals on Monday and Thursday nights, karate on Wednesday nights, and this leaves one night a week for anything decent, but who does decent things on Wednesday nights besides me?
[/My Sitation][Job Offer]By the way if anyone wants a high paying, long hours, good workplace job with lots of extra shifts soon coming available, in northbridge (slightly east of Chatswood) let me know!
[/Job Offer]The long and the short of this post was to give you all an idea of where I've been for the last while and bring you all up to speed on my rather significant situational changes, seeing as I've not seen many of you for a decent chat for a while. With this moving out, it's still only a possibility, but if I move it will probably be to a one or two bedroom apartment at North Sydney, close to trains so I can quickly get to uni each day, close to work so I don't spend much on petrol on the weekends, close to trains so I can go to BMSI for Encore rehearsals when they start next year, close(ish) to karate so I don't spend too much on petrol, and at a reasonably accessible location for all my friends. I will also be considering inviting someone else to join me, but they would have to be able to handle my nature and also calm enough for me to keep from killing them. I will not allow them to overtly disrupt my lifestyle, but I won't force my lifestyle on them either.
For the record it is now almost 10am, it has taken me a few hours to get through this around the calls I've taken on and off since 7:30am.
