ORIENTATION

I started the new job today. Day 1 as always is about tumbling through the wormhole and not quite knowing which way is up until someone tells you. Or as these companies like to call it, ‘orientation’.

I like it. I’ve always thought it better to know nothing at all than it is to know most things and have to explain them. Though obviously, that is my actual job, so I’d better not push that thought too far.

I did a lot of reading today. I can’t really tell you what my job is about but I can say that it’s somewhere on the complex-interesting end of the spectrum, and that it genuinely will make a difference. My hope is that as I get into the nitty gritty, I’ll understand enough of it to get by.

That’s the job part of the Unsettling Adventure then. I’ll be alright for now. The other component, the bit where we figure out where we live, is still uncertain.

“So we made the offer in February,” we told someone last night.

“Good God!” they exclaimed, accurately but missing the point. He is though, I should have said.

Apparently there’s another roadblock. I feel as though somebody is stringing this out for us now, and it’s not particularly nice. Last week it was a typo on something (not our paperwork), the weeks before that, a boundary dispute. On Friday, the estate agent told us we could exchange this week… this week that’s looking less likely than a vegan butcher selling two pound o’ Cumberland sausages.

Anyway, nothing is truly impossible. I understood some clever stuff today, and actually feel comfortable about the job ahead. Seems whenever the world looks its most disorientated, that might just be when everything clicks into alignment. That’s the prayer anyhow.