Speed Bump

It's pretty amazing how things have fallen into place since getting to Australia.  Granted I have worked quite hard to make these things fall into said place but there's also been some luck involved. I made it to Australia flying standby on my first try, got a job that paid just enough to afford staying at a hostel, got to move out of the hostel into a wonderfully located/priced house, found a great job with amazing people and got to quit the other job, and the list goes on.  That said, I've hit a bit of a bump in the road.

The lease of the house I'm currently in is over on the 28th of March.  It didn't seem like a huge problem since the plan was to simply renew it.  Unfortunately, we got a call about a week and a half ago that the actual owner of the house doesn't want to rent it out anymore. The house is a duplex and it sounds like our neighbor is being forced out as well (we're wondering if the owner sold the land and is going to demolish the house).  So that means I am once again on a house hunt.

This time it's a little trickier.  I work nights a lot and obviously need a way to get home after closing. Almost every bus here stops running around midnight and I don't get off until roughly 12:15.  I'm trying to find a place that's walking distance to work (or short biking distance), in my price range, and in a decent part of the city but there's not a whole lot of options right now.

I thought I had found something this past week.  Emailed the guy and he was quick to respond.  Went later that day to check the apartment out but he never showed up and stopped answering emails.  That was strange. There's a place I have my eye on but the website it's listed on doesn't let you message the person for the first 14 days unless you pay to be a premium member.  Not going to do that but will keep checking to see when the 14 days are up.

So yeah that sucks.  This house I'm in was pretty perfect but oh well.  Here's hoping I can find something soon. In other news, this was the last week of the Fringe with it's official end date on the 14th.  The Clipsal 500 was last weekend which is essentially a race for V8 cars on the east side of the city.  Glad that didn't last too long since I could hear the cars from my house.  Bogans galore as well.  What else?  Oh yeah I finally saw Deadpool and it was fantastic.

Royal Croquet Club

Food booths

That's all for now.  Bye.