Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Redux

Being back is weird. I can feel my British accent overcoming my Canadian one.

It's 2am and I'm still up. Why? I have to clean my room. I have restore order into my life. Right now, it's a bit of a lemon party. I have to have a schedule. I don't like schedules. I'm a person who likes to roll with the punches.

I spent my birthday and subsequently my first day in London: writing documentation for a former client and not billing them; thereby saving my coworker 6 hours that he can spend doing on another task. I'm also fighting sleep while at a client during my machine set-up phase. If it were coding then I'd be wide awake. I was setting up a machine and getting permissions.

My life was going to based around my HTC Magic. The connection to Google Calendar was going to be the definitive answer for me. The shitty touch screen keyboard, the horrendous battery life, the service providers blocking the phone has completely turned me off it.

What can I possibly report to you about London? Shower screens are weird. Rent is fucking expensive. All food is fresh, even the frozen ones. Prepaid phones seem cheap (bought a touch screen phone for £19). Rent is commonly paid weekly. Your pay goes monthly.

What else? Being a UK citizen makes travelling to the UK a joke. Painfully easy and I love it.

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