No-news

I haven't posted anything since I arrived to Manchester. There must be something to tell after two weeks in a new big city to write on a blog, must it not? He might be having problems with the internet connection?, someone may think. He might not have time enough to write because he's doing plenty of other things?, some other may think. He might have been hit by the tram?, the most optimistic may be thinking. I'm sorry for the optimistic one but I haven't been hit by anything or anyone. The thing is that I have nothing to tell. In these two weeks I haven't done absolutely anything. If there is a word to define this period that's boredom.

That's normal I think. We start from the premise that I don't know anybody. I spend most of the time at home, mainly surfing the internet looking at job offers, reading the news, sending e-mails... I watch films, listen music, don't read anything... I go out a bit to do the shopping, see the surroundings and go to the city centre sometimes, which is just 2 minutes walking so pretty good. I think the job issue will take longer although I must admit that I haven't been from bar to bar to see if they need staff. I'm searching office-based jobs; administration assistant and simple things like that as they only ask for IT skills. But a friend has told me that they will never offer me a job like this because they look for people with basic secondary education (with GCSE level, not even A-level), who don't think much by themselves and with no further aspirations, easy to keep long. But if I aim a bit higher, according to my academic level, the jobs are mentally more demanding and I don't feel like being paid for thinking because now I don't want to work thinking. Furthermore, in all of them they ask for experienced people and I don't have any experience other than as an archaeologist. So either I reduce my cv or I lie or I don't know, but I will have to change my 'strategy'. Well, some of the jobs I have applied for still have their deadlines far so I will have to wait longer to rule them out.

Regarding the question why I don't go out to explore the city, it is an issue that more than one has raised. "Go out, have fun" they tell me. Look, first of all I don't think I should be having fun if I don't have a job yet and my near future is extremely uncertain. I'm not going to have fun, I know it. So I prefer not to go out rather than going out not to have fun in a situation which is supposed to be funny and exciting. I prefer not to waste these situations and make the most of them when I really feel like doing it. As soon as they offer me a job, if I have some days before I start, I may get away a couple of days. I will see. And on the other hand I'm not in a rush to that thing of explore the city and I think that it is not the right approach for my life in this city. I am keen to know Manchester but as a citizen, not as a tourist. I want to see it when I have to go here or there, when I go out to party, when I go to work, when I meet someone... When I do the normal life. I don't feel like going out to see monuments and museums. That's why I left Oxford

And regarding the flat and the flatmate, everything is very well to be honest. He was right when I came to visit it for the first time and told me that, despite the new building, the quality is not very good. But I don't expect to spend here many years so I don't mind. The bedroom is small and single but the living-kitchen-dinning room is a clear space and with more light so between one space and the other I don't find the apartment too small. I talk to my flatmate when he's around although he spends quite a lot of time out. He's nice and we get on well. Yesterday for example we went to do some shopping together. And every Monday he cooks special dinner at the pub where he works (very good and very cheap) so I am making a habit of going there every week.

And this is all after two weeks. Rather little... If things don't change, I'll copy and paste this entry again.