I forgot to do this yesterday, my one year in London post. We are now half way through our two year contract on the flat.

I still like it.

I just feel like I haven’t really sampled enough of it yet. I guess you never can, but I feel like there’s a lot of stuff that I could have been doing and instead I’ve been sat inside trying to work but prevaricating instead. As I am now in fact.

I’m also a bit sad that I haven’t made any new friends here. There’s Louise and Tom, JC, Adam and Charlie. Al is around. I don’t really know him, but I reckon we’ll get together for beer at some point. Each of those people has friends and work colleagues here, so they’re OK. I’ve met quite a few of these friends and colleagues and many of them were cool, but none of them are the kind of people I would be really good friends with. Because I work from home I haven’t got a line to work people. At Soup I really got along with all the people I worked with and I’d like to have that again. Albeit without the 9-5.

So, solutions.

First of all I need to go out more, tag along with other people on what they’re doing, rather than setting up stuff myself. There’s only ever a very small crowd at stuff I arrange. I also need to go to more internet-organised stuff, such as Dorkbot. The sort-of-party that Furtherfield held that I went to was pretty good and I did meet some pretty cool people there. I’d like to work with Furtherfield at some point, but I think we’ve both just got too much other stuff to be doing before we can collaborate.

I’ve also been thinking about finding a shared office to join in on or something. New Media Knowledge run one up in Harrow, but that’s a bit far to be going each day. Plus they don’t return my emails asking for pricing. I’ll have to keep looking on that front, but I think that shared offices are a bit of a neat idea that haven’t really caught on yet.