{"id":249,"date":"2009-04-20T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T08:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/04\/20\/on_the_ride\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T08:46:49","slug":"on_the_ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/04\/20\/on_the_ride\/","title":{"rendered":"On the ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

After about six weeks<\/a> on the road, living out of a suitcase and depending on the kindness of strangers<\/del> friends<\/a> I moved into a house in Rotherhithe on Saturday. It’s going to be a further week or two until the housebox arrives with all my gear, and goodness knows how long until BT connect the phone line and I can get internetted at home.<\/p>\n

\n‘Home’. There’s a nice word. I feel like I haven’t had one for quite a while. Sydney was never intended to be a final destination, an ‘endpoint’ of our travels\u2014the intention had always been to continue on to New Zealand after a couple of years\u2014but with time ticking and grants looking ever less likely I was getting frustrated and somewhat unrooted. Then the new job landed in my lap and we all came back. Home.<\/p>\n

\nDon’t get me wrong: I don’t regret any of it. It’s been fantastic, with highs and lows; a complete blast.<\/p>\n

\nSince coming back, work-wise, it’s been just as breathtaking. I thought my role at F1000<\/a> was reasonably clear, even if how I actually did it was going to be a little fuzzy around the edges. But then, on my first day, the chairman sat me down and told me he’d dreamt up a new, different job title for me, and gave me a project that left me gasping for breath. <\/p>\n

\nAfter two weeks (either side of Easter, so both of them a bit shorter than normal) I’ve clawed my way to the surface and am beating everything into shape. It’s going to be a lot of work, and it’s all rather new and exciting\u2014and in a little while Martin<\/a>, strangely, is going to tell you all about it.<\/p>\n

\nThis morning I left home and got to work nice and early, to find that I couldn’t log on to my PC because the ‘security log’ was full, and had to wait for one of the IT people to get in to fix it. Then, after I was in, I turned to a colleague behind me to talk about the weekend (and chickens and hiring cows\u2014long story); and Windows crashed.<\/p>\n

\nBah. Thank goodness I’d brought in my new and could write this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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