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Excitement non
Jun. 23rd, 2006 04:05 pmSomething I just posted as a comment (slightly tinkered with) that I thought might be useful to put in public ..
"People keep asking me if I'm "excited" about going to Southampton, when the truth is I'm somewhere between frustrated, blank, simply ignorant, worried, and impatient at how much of the most important minutiae I still don't know - where I'll be living, what exactly I'll be teaching, whether I'll still be part of the Edinburgh AHRC Centre (dependent on lots of interpersonal stuff as well as whether it gets refunded) - and then there's all the stuff I *can't* know yet - what my colleagues will be like, if I'll like them, if I'll like the new sorts of work I'll be doing, if I'll like SE England again after umpteen years in Scotland, if I'll be desperately homesick for my friends & nice colleagues up here, etc etc. Excitement doesn't really cover it. Somewhere between curiousity, anticipation, hope and terror is nearer :-)
Actually I have possible good news on the accommodation front but I daren't post it till I'm sure..
I'm still recovering both from the trauma of seeing my big brother dancing the conga and snogging his Internet bride, and from the very welcome hugely potent string of Cosmopolitans that Little Neice made me, but still, I've seen my family for around 24 hours straight and lived. Go me. Veni, vidi, vici, wiki. Pix may follow. Oh and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
andrewducker, I've just remembered I have a box of non gluten wedding cake going stale, so there's another incentive to get your ass over here with my Dr Who tape tonight :-)
"People keep asking me if I'm "excited" about going to Southampton, when the truth is I'm somewhere between frustrated, blank, simply ignorant, worried, and impatient at how much of the most important minutiae I still don't know - where I'll be living, what exactly I'll be teaching, whether I'll still be part of the Edinburgh AHRC Centre (dependent on lots of interpersonal stuff as well as whether it gets refunded) - and then there's all the stuff I *can't* know yet - what my colleagues will be like, if I'll like them, if I'll like the new sorts of work I'll be doing, if I'll like SE England again after umpteen years in Scotland, if I'll be desperately homesick for my friends & nice colleagues up here, etc etc. Excitement doesn't really cover it. Somewhere between curiousity, anticipation, hope and terror is nearer :-)
Actually I have possible good news on the accommodation front but I daren't post it till I'm sure..
I'm still recovering both from the trauma of seeing my big brother dancing the conga and snogging his Internet bride, and from the very welcome hugely potent string of Cosmopolitans that Little Neice made me, but still, I've seen my family for around 24 hours straight and lived. Go me. Veni, vidi, vici, wiki. Pix may follow. Oh and
andrewducker, I've just remembered I have a box of non gluten wedding cake going stale, so there's another incentive to get your ass over here with my Dr Who tape tonight :-)
