Monday, 10 March 2008

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  i want to know how to survive in the nightlife

  started the first day of the special option of the course today. craziness. i was reminiscing with erika today about how it felt like the group project was months off and now that we've finished it i wonder where this flippin' year went. if i think that it feels like september was last month how quickly are these next months going to go? the placement will be here in no time and i'll have to be turning in my dissertation and sorting out the next stage of my life in less than 6 months. mother fuck. could i go just one freakin' year without having to make some major life-changing decisions? maybe?

  yeah, so i've got it down to a couple of different options each with their own web of possibilities/disasters:

  option one: stay in the UK and try to get a job.

  • Pluses - buying power. the pound is so high to the dollar that any job i got here would pay at least twice what i would make back in the states. i also love england and become pretty depressed when i'm not here.
  • Minusus - VISAS. that's pretty much it. a graduate visa extention costs upwards of 600 pounds. and that's just for a coupla months. i'd then have to get a work visa, all of which would have to be started like, NOW. other option is marrying for the visa and that is just NOT happening.

  option two: move back to the states.

  • Pluses - no visa problems. native country. could probably either get my own place (depending where i go) or free housing should i move back in with the 'rents. be closer to the fam/friends.
  • Minusus - why did i come back to the UK if only to end up back in the states in the end. could have gone to a local school for that. pay is crap. major depression would hit like a brick should i have to move back in with my parents and get a job somewhere in sarasota.

  option three: go somewhere entirely new.

  • Pluses - somewhere totally new. was contemplating looking into paid internships somewhere. travel. new adventure.
  • Minuses - what the hell am i on? where would i go? won't they have visa problems too?!?

  yeah, so as you can see i'm wiggin' out. i'd like to think i had the time to mull things over but in actuality i don't. mutha. it also doesn't help that i'm pretty much done with the course and i'm beginning to suspect that museums are for losers. shit. i'm going to end up back in sarasota flipping burgers.

  fuck.

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