Ret1 Female • 31 • London • United Kingdom

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I'm into... Photography Music Activism Mind Education Equality
I'm working on... thinking about what kind of job I want to do when I get back to London... and appreciating the feeling of a time when anything is possible!

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

(But seeking new landscapes sometimes helps :) )

Last On: 05/13/08 PST

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Mar 28, 2008 - 09:29 PM PST

dex2988

Ret1

i can't wait for the new season so we can discuss it. i loved your insights on the previous episodes!

Mar 06, 2008 - 10:07 AM PST

dex2988

Any updates on the new job?

Feb 29, 2008 - 05:57 PM PST

BethanyJoy

Ret1

Thanks for the add! :-)

Feb 24, 2008 - 07:06 PM PST

dex2988

Congrats! Let's hope the new job doesn't keep you off the the forums too much...we'd surely miss your contributions.

Feb 15, 2008 - 03:31 PM PST

B0ge

Ret1

Hi Ret1 =) I like your pictures. Haven't read your blogs yet.

Feb 15, 2008 - 11:52 AM PST

Ret1

seeing as the writing blog aspect of QL is down at the moment, will try and be creative and write something here in this section!

The above is one of the videos I got from my sister of the flat she has decided we are going to live in when I get back to London. This is one of the shortest of the 4 and also the room that will be my bedroom, so thought it was the appropriate one to upload. Obviously it does not tell you much about the flat, and not even so much about the person who lives there now, and even less about me... but it is at least as little flavour of where I will be. Might not put up a video of it when I live there, as at the moment does not seem like an invasion of privacy.

What else can I say while making the most of this space???!!! Well I am 'ok' I would say. Work is fine and only have 4 days left now over the next 2 weeks. Some things will be picked up for a refugee house tomorrow, and so have put a few of my things aside... need to do the rest in a bit and tomorrow.

Feeling in a middle point at the moment... Not over excited (though was while waiting for the videos and when I research the area where the flat is.) Also still a bit ill after having a sore throat and have to confess that am generally being a bit of a hypochodriac at the moment, as any little ache or pain and I think its something serious...I dont like it when I am like this, as its hard to rationalise etc... does not matter what I say to myself... There is some justice in one element of my fears, but in the others, well not so sure!

Ok, decided thats enough... Now kneeling on the floor as have put chair to side... Will need to clear this desk... hmmmm....

Feb 15, 2008 - 08:23 AM PST

Lost_In_Place

What an incredible picture, you have a great eye for the beauty in natural life. Looking at this picture, it gives you a glimps of the amazing beauty despite mankind, and yet it makes me wish this was the view from my own backyard.

Feb 12, 2008 - 04:57 AM PST

jacy

Ret1

ahh...three weeks in Cornwall. A village named C something Covely or something close. I don't have that info on this computer. I spent Boxing Day in London and the night before I left. The first part was spent in Padstow with ski pals...then at a spa resort for a working holiday.

I'm wearing a Tee-shirt from an animated feature that was written by an Englishman in the 1800's. "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott.

Feb 12, 2008 - 03:34 AM PST

Ret1

yes it is beutiful... but i didnt go swimming there as were driving past there to stay somewhere else... there was no obvious entrance to the lake on the side we were driving past...

Feb 12, 2008 - 02:05 AM PST

RFP

That is such a beautiful place. Did you go swimming?

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Im back

Mar 12, 2008

Im back, Im back, Im back... I dont know whato to do with myself. Well some things I know, but other things I dont. I think after the intial excitement of having made the decision to move and then the making of and carrying out of plans, well thats it, Im here. On one hand I taking things slowly in my mind. I am not fussing and worrying about a lot of the small organisational things I could be. Trying to make the most for once of experience that says that i dont always need to panic and try and get everything done, as soon as possible. At this moment there are not so many things I could be doing, and so am waiting. Am visiting my old/new work and starting things going there, but I dont need to start work until after Easter. Same with the flat... cant move in yet so cant do too much organising for that. Internet etc can wait. (I hope! That I can. Wait.)

Still think its hard to get the balance in being relaxed and going with the flow and then being very active to achieve all you want. I guess it is just a balance everyone must test out for themselves. Must write some day, a little book of things I have found useful and might be useful for others to hear when they are a bit younger. However, I am aware that we only really pick those things up we want to hear and so notice and learn things at different times. However, there are the things that you feel alone in and would be great to know you are not. (ok thats boring its probably the most said thing, or one of them, so wont harp on any more!)

Yes.... its feels weirdddd to be back... hmmmmm not sure.... i guess it will all feel more normal when i get a flat and start work... but i guess in a way i want it also not to feel normal. i want my life here in london to be different in some ways to the life i had before here, as although of course that was also fine in its way... i know i dont want that again as its probably what has stopped me coming back sooner.... 5 and a half years ago it was that i left for Vienna....

Want the excitement and to do things I planned in my head before coming back. No new years resolutions that are kept for one day or if you are lucky a week! Why are we like that!!!!!