I am in the new flat AND on the internet! My lovely flatmate Lisa has one of those sticks that you just plug into a USB port and then the internet works, mysteriously.
Yes, I have moved. It is a very, very nice feeling being in a flat where you can walk around in pants and leave the dirty dishes for the next day and you know you can stay for at least a few months.
Thing I miss most, now that there is even occasional internet access: a potato peeler. Will go to the office tomorrow and demand one.
Our big moving house friday was quite chaotic. THEY did call in the end, but eventually it was Ben (yet another volunteer) and me organising the key swapping and volunteer movements. Quite complicated, actually! Ben moved from the Brixton flat to the Streatham flat into Winnie's room, who moved to Tooting flat 1 into my old temporary room, then I moved to Tooting flat 2 into Nancy's room, who moved on to Brixton into Ben's old chamber.
Also, Marcell moved from Tooting flat 3 into the Brixton flat, while Stanley moved from no-one-knows-where into Tooting 3 and Geraldine (=The-other-girl-who-didn't-tell-me-her-name, I mentioned her before) moved out of Tooting 1 to no-one-knows-where!
There, lots of new names for you. I have met most of the volunteers now, there are 35 of us. Most of us are nice and fun and I am looking forward to getting to know us better.
Ben is a lovely guy from Portsmouth, who's just here "until he finds another job", a bit like me. He knows interesting facts about the battle of Trafalgar.
Marcell is still very gay and a lot of fun. He is excited about living in the Brixton flat now, which he shares with Nancy, someone I don't know and Isaac, who is also gay and - as it turns out - once went on a date with Marcell's exboyfriend! I love when shit like that happens.
Nancy is still tiny and bored with life. She almost got me arrested or something, tho. Cause I helped her move her 15 suitcases from Tooting flat 2 to Brixton on Friday and she bought me a child's day travel pass for the tube. After there being a technical problem and a big tube officer man almost looking at my ticket she eventually warned me that I had to pretend to be 15. REALLY? NANCY? Do I look like 15 to you? Not all of us are 4 foot tall and have babyfaces. She's sweet, tho, was very worried if I'd find my way back and I had to text her when I was home safe. Bless her.
Then there is Delius, who is my new favourite person of all. He has been a volunteer with the organisation for 2 1/2 years! And he's still here. As a side job he does gardening. He loves flowers. Aww. He doesn't look like the kind of guy to love flowers with his Tommy Hilfiger clothes and spliffs hanging out of his mouth all day. He is going to do Loreena McKennit's garden this month. I hope he will come around lots when I am on shift! We get along really well, he calls me two times a day and I just stare at him whenever I see him, cause his face looks exactely like that of someone I loved in an obsessive teenage kind of way for years and years when I was, well, a teenager.
Lisa is still ace, getting better and better actually. I cooked her dinner today (an improvised curry, which turned out really well!) and we'll go for a game of pool in a bit.
So yeah, I am getting settled into my new life. Today was my last shaddow shift, next time I will have to face Loreena McKennit all on my own! Huh!
I wheeled her around in the wheelchair for the very first time today and she gave me 8 out of 10 points for it, which I think is acceptable. I was just glad she didn't fall out or something.
Saturday was a quiet day, did some shopping and went to Vic's birthday party in the evening, which was FUN in capital letters. We all were wearing vicwigs, which made some of us look like Vic and some of us like themselves with a wig on. And some of us like rOzzy rOsbourne with a fringe.
Also my bank card and details from my new bank account arrived! Very happy about that, cause I am running out of money. Unfortunately they got my name wrong, the eejits. Spelled my surname with an "a" in the end. The Insurance Number people also got my name wrong. They left the "c" out. I can see that this will continue to cause problems. Big sigh.
Can you PLEASE introduce me to Delius?
ReplyDeleteNO HE'S ALL MINE!!!
ReplyDelete;) Maybe. But you'll have to come to London first xx
Ok, I'll come and we'll spend our time staring at him together :-)
ReplyDelete... like good old times *lol*
They were good times... *glues herself to a fence and stares at stranger drinking beer for a couple of hours*
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