More than hour away

Living more than and hour away from the Brisbane CBD by bus can be quite challenging, but I'm happy to be taken in by friends!

As some of you may remember, I had a lead on a job last time I wrote. On Saturday I met up with Sean (the guy with the lead) and a few of his friends. We had dinner at the very nice (and expensive) restaurant on South Bank; Obsession. The meal was beautiful Chinese food, and the company was nice. I would have liked Sean and his male friend to take a deep, long breath in order for the girls to be heard, but that's a different matter. I finally got around to asking Sean in passes about the job that he was going to hook me up with. Turned out that his friend thought it was a great idea... I would be counting bugs on windshields for a company that deals with fixing broken windshields. I thought this was an odd response, but I just let it go because it was supposed to be a "celebration" as Sean kept saying. A celebration of what he never said. I didn't continue the night with the group because I didn't feel completely confident they wouldn't leave me behind somewhere.

On the way back to my friends' place I passed another friend's place. He happened to be hosting a party and I thought I might make an appearance. Had I realize that I was going to have to walk about 10 minutes down a dark street by myself I wouldn't have got off the bus. I walked about 6 minutes before I got sick and couldn't walk anymore on the dark street. After my mugging, I feel that I'm too easy of a target when it's dark. I was happy to get back on the bus and back to my friends on Saturday night.

However I digress from the most interesting stories of the week. Although, I don't wish to go into the job situation, I can tell you that I left the opportunity to work with an IT company for and opportunity to work for the Queensland Museum! It's very exciting!

The other interesting thing in my life is my new apartment that I'll move into this week. It's a one bedroom flat really close to transportation and the city, and gets heaps of light. The adventure to find this place was one that I've been putting on my blog in pieces. The last piece has been the most exciting.

On Tuesday I went to see a place in Woollongabba. The landlord was very friendly and the property was in fairly close proximity to transportation, but the apartment was very dark and in an area surrounded by auto shops. If I moved there would want my "happy light" sent to me and Brad with me every second. Needlessly to say I wasn't thoroughly impressed with the property so I continued to look. That day I called about a place to see when they were going to have a showing. At first they told me that they were going to only have a showing on Saturday, however only a few minutes later they changed their mind and asked if I could make it to the property in an hour. My response, "Sure! I'll see you there!" Upon arrive I met the realator and he walked me through an apartment I just loved... there was so much sunlight and the room was huge. I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't a stove and they were just going to give me a hot plate, however the realtor a day or two later convinced the landlord to install the stove. Rent was going to go up, but only by $20 a week. I applied and the landlord accepted my application! I move in this coming week to a place that is close to the city, SUPER close to buses, 10 minutes from the train station, and has heaps of light and now a stove. It's very exciting!

Tomorrow I'm headed to the QLD Museum to wander around.

I also need to buy an umbrella... and now all sorts of things for my apartment! I hope I can find some awesome and cool deals!