The final countdown

Seeing as this blog is called Tales and thoughts.... I've decided to write a post about my current situation and where I'm about to go instead of my usual angry rant.

Soooooo two weeks today I'll be moving to Manchester to start my new job as a parish assistant. It's a job that's designed to test vocation and calling by throwing people out of their depths into a Church and parish scenario and seeing if they can cope with it. Should be interesting to see how well I cope with 6 day working weeks, dealing with difficult people in difficult situations, handling admin and the masses of public speaking. I'm sure I'll be fine, I've only shied away from any contact with the public, avoided talking in front of people I don't know, have a terrible phone manner, am rubbish with money and counting and have becoming incredibly lazy of late. What could possibly go wrong?

I do take solace in the fact that, having been in contact with my soon to be fellow parish assistant, (who I'm sure is also reading this at the moment, hi if you are) I know it's not only me who's feeling a little worried.

Still enough worrying, Manc's guna offer me loads of new fun and possibilities, not only job wise but also, hopefully, socially, musically and otherally that I can't think of right now.

There's a big anarchist scene up there too, as well as a Food Not Bombs group and other green/anarcho friendly groups to finally get stuck into. Warminster, with it's heavy army presence and generally red neck population (people I work with not withstanding =P) has been slow to pick up any of the anarchist ideas I've tried suggesting to them. Though the group discussion I lead on the subject did start a good debate and hopefully got people thinking......

I've said my good byes, made a list of books and games I want to read/finish in the next two weeks and have a long list of things to pack, people to see, places to go and errands to run before I leave. It's guna be a busy two weeks....... I probably shouldn't have bought Minecraft........

Not a lot of Christian Anarchism in this post I know, but bare with me people who actually find that stuff interesting to read. I do mention anarchy a little bit and I'm sure God's in there somewhere if you look hard enough. He usually is.