Long over-due updates!

I've been so slack at updating this thing...not for lack of things going on, probably more because there's been a lot happening! Stand by for a flurry of postings to bring you up to speed.

Let's start with a quick update: It's May. MAY!! How did that happen? Into month 5 of 2010 I can safely say that year is already shaping up to be so much better than the last. Andy and I are both working hard but also devoting as much time as possible to playing and dreaming and I'm loving that. I'm coming into my last weeks at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and still loving it. Working here has stretched my mind and heart and I'm really hoping to find work with asylum seekers and refugees once I finish my MA; I might save ruminations on this topic for another post. I'll talk your ear off if you're interested :)

We're both now job-hunting; while my MA doesn't finish until I hand in my dissertation in September, I'm looking for work once my placement is done and Andy is looking to use the financial freedom that might bring to leave Liverpool (hoorah!) and find more creative, fulfilling work - ideally in the city in which he lives for a change. Exciting times!

Come summer our lives are a blank canvas - it's kind of surreal but kind of exciting. We're open to moving to the bright lights and faster pace of London if there's interesting work there, but likewise open to getting jobs here in Manchester and rooting ourselves here for a while longer. Over the past few months we've simultaneously talked ourselves into a state of excitement about the idea of moving to London for a few fun and crazy years, and at the same come to understand what an awesome set of friends we have here in Manchester, not something we want to leave lightly.

All in all, it feels like we're in a good place. We're both working really hard but with an energy and an excitement about what is around the corner, most of it as yet unknown. So far I'm honouring my intentions to have 2010 be a year for living - I've been having some extremely fun adventures involving tweed, bicycles, fake moustaches and nude public art and have a skydive coming up next month...more on all that in following posts.