It's loads warmer here down in sunny Devon than it was at the beginning of the week. Double figures temperatures again.
My last weekend here, moving to London on Sunday to start a new job. In retrospect, only giving myself 4 weeks after my last major bowel surgery before going back to work was a bit optimistic. Thought I could find a place to live within a couple of weeks, and it hasn't happened at all. Have a place sorted (barring references and credit checks, which should be ok), but can't move in for 2 weeks, so I'm spending the first couple of weeks on a mate's sofa. Not ideal and I'm still up about 2 or 3 times a night to use the loo as the new plumbing hasn't really settled down completely, so I'm gonna be tiiiired I reckon. I've also gotten far too used to not getting up til 9am as well, not looking forward to 7am starts!
Feeling pretty good other than that though, in pretty good health and very excited about going back to studio work after 12 depressing months of freelancing and hospital visits. I'll get to socialise with real people again! The studio is a pretty big name in the games industry (although arguably not as big as my last contract out in Germany) and the project is something new and exciting and top secret apparently (they wouldn't tell me at the interview, despite signing an NDA) so I'm keen to find out what I'm going to be working on and getting stuck into it. Was supposed to be learning the software I'll be using (Maya, I've been a Max user for the last 14 years, eek!) but I've not really done enough of that either, hopefully I've learnt enough to wing it and make it look like I know what I'm doing, will have the help file and a browser window permanently open to google search how to do shit for the first few weeks I reckon.
More than anything, I'm excited about living in London though, hopefully this will mean that once I'm settled, I stop posting about my poor health in Friday threads, and start posting about actually doing stuff at the weekend!
