would you like to a liberty loyalty card with that? from london [part fifteen]

hello friends

it is a beautiful day outside so i will keep this short and sweet. i really should be out there doing something cultural.

i started my job at liberty yesterday. i work on the christmas floor, it is filled wall-to-wall with glass baubles and decorations. the christmas food shop is next door and it is a candy wonderland. i have never been so excited about christmas before! the floor is very festive and happy and there are many lovely decorations to buy [the customers gobble them up like glass candy]. pretty pretty pretty. but i feel like i have made a mistake and i hate my job already. did you know i worked in myer once? i quit on my fourth day. i really have to stick this one out if i want to pay the rent. there is no sense of job satisfaction and my supervisor is a witch. oh cry! but the floor staff are friendly and funny and i do a lot of unauthorised visual merchandising to keep myself entertained. if i have to put a bauble back and i cannot find its place, i put it on one of the christmas trees. yes i am seriously giving it to the man with that one.

my other news is eley kishimoto called to ask me to come in for a second interview. monday 5pm. wheee! the design room manager said they liked me as a candidate. hurrah! i do not have a plan b so they better give me the job! but they are concerned about my visa [i can only work for a year], i am going to research sponsorship and sell it to them. fingers crossed, everyone!

on saturday night jon and i hit the streets of shoredith looking for a dancefloor worthy of our moneymakers. i chose a place called straight to video [they only play music from films]. it is called straight to video for a reason, it was a dud. we want madonna! 80s! something pop to dance to! so back out on the street, we spy two boys. one is holding a dj case, the other is dressed in a bright kaftan and printed leggings. we look at each other, we are thinking the same thing. if anyone knows where to go, these two do! they start walking, we start walking. we follow them through hoxton square, down a few alleys, past a mixed business that claims to have the best food in the world [i took a picture of this but it was blurry]. do you know where they went? home. yes we followed them home. embarrassed, we turn back and call it a night.

love
olivia

ps i know i ask for this often, but any news from home? i am greedy for news! tell me!