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Why is it everyone thinks I’m going to be bored in a couple of days? At the moment I don’t even have time to be bored. My mornings are taken up with lie ins, gym, tai chi, shopping, cooking, tidying, etc., and my afternoons should be filled with doing loads of little projects I want to do but are usually filled with seeing friends.

Take today for instance: Got up earlier than I would have liked (thanks mainly to the postman ringing my doorbell at 8:30), have been to the gym, been shopping, cooked a lovely lunch (curried, minced Clarrissa. Overdid it in the chillies just a tad but not too much), done some washing and now I’m sitting down for half an hour before doing a bit of tai chi, having a shower, heading to a friends house and having dinner there.

Yesterday and the day before I had to charge into London which I usually combine with hooking up with friends for lunch or coffee which takes up a good few hours of my day. I’ve got Cromer Zoo to go visit and photograph, friends to catch up with, clubs to go to (since Sedition closed my local club is now Rios in Leeds which is a fair trek), about 6 months worth of Java programming stuff to learn, certifications to get, photographs to catalogue, photographs to post, photographs to scan, at least one photo book to produce, a flat to paint, several programs to write, about 8 hours of Lost and Heroes to watch on my Sky+ box and 11 years worth of missed sleep to catch up on. I have less time now that I had when I worked

I can’t see me getting bored for a loooong time

You all seem convinced I should get a job outside of the city too. Na ah. The city pays WAY too much for me to go do anything else. Besides, if I was stuck in some run of the mill programming job earning what I would usually consider to be a tax bill I’d be bored senseless within 2 months. My mum once asked me a few years ago when we were having trouble getting something to work “Why don’t you buy a book on the subject?”. I couldn’t. There were no books on the subject and if anyone was going to write one I’d be the most qualified person to do so. There is something fun about being given a ridiculously vague spec and a hideously short time frame and at the end of it still producing something the business are happy with. I need to be challenged, and I also need to be rewarded for that challenge… but not for a few months