one week to go...

In one week's time I'm headed back to Newcastle - yeeha!

For how long I know not, but none the less l'm looking forward to it.

That's not to say I haven't enjoyed Ingham. I've learned so much about myself and about my job here. And just it seems just as I've started to make some hard and fast friendships it's time to leave. But what can you do?

I'll miss the landscape. The total Independence. The abundance of free time (which conversely equals boredom). The beaches and the islands. I think I'm even going to miss the Express itself. It's been an adventure.

I'm still dying to come home though.

The next question is of course what the will I do when I get back?

I've been frantically looking for positions in and around Newcastle and Sydney. Just starting to get some bites. I have an interview in Sydney next week for a b2b journalist position. Don't know if it's me but I'll give the interview a shot and scope it out. How do you go back to a desk job after community journalism? As hard as this job is sometimes I love it.

I also had a video hook up interview today with a paper in Scone about 2 hours north of Newcastle. Not sure.... still pretty far away. Especially considering Luke has job in Sydney with the ABC next February.

Looks like it might be a Christmas holiday retail job for me. :P

I don't really mind though. Might be nice to have some free time for a bit. It's an exciting prospect to be cut loose for a while.

Come what may I suppose...