The first day in a brave new world

Well, I woke up this morning as per usual.

I wrote that last email to my former colleagues in the BBC – the handover for the project. The document had been niggling me all weekend. How could I have ran out of time to write it on my last week?

So that’s sent. And I’ve just called the insurer to give them some details about a home emergency claim we’ve made. They’re going to call me back to confirm we’re covered (they just have, we are).

Now what?

This is the moment I knew would come. The moment of fundamental realisation that I don’t have a job to go to.

It feels odd. Slightly numbing.

I’ve got a few things I need to do today to keep myself occupied:

• Travel to the BBC to return the work laptop (they let me keep it over the weekend)
• Clean the house – I agreed with Sofia that I would. I get so busy with work I don’t get around to doing it and then she begrudgingly does it. My turn to make up for many occasions of neglect!
• Change the light switch the in the kitchen

Hmmm, not exactly the cutting edge of new media, technology and internet.

(Oh and as I write this someone from another apartment has just started playing a trumpet – never heard that before. Clearly they do it when we’re all “at work”. Except now my work is at home. Oh dear.)

However I do also have a few other things on my list:

• Update this blog. It needs a new template, I’ve decided. I also need to put in details of my consultancy etc. Also I will probably stop putting in personal entries like this – maybe create a personal blog elsewhere.
• Decide whether I can realistically launch my Bit Torrent search engine. It’s been running in stealth for almost a year but I couldn’t release it whilst working for the BBC. But could it equally be a mute point for clients and future potential employers? Probably. But then you’re only young once

Well, I’m not feeling any more inspired from writing this, but at least you know how I feel!