Turns out the job advert lied and it was actually for a door-to-door salesperson. Sack that for a laugh. So, sadly, I am still jobless. Also, I can't apply for jobseekers allowance because my student loans cover everything. Somebody louder than me needs to tell the Job Centre that you can't get student loans for a masters coz they didn't listen when I said it. Oh well, back to the job hunt I go.
However, even if I don't manage to get a job in the next 10 days, all may not be lost. I have a friend at salsa who says she would have no problem letting me stay with her. Now I didn't definitely commit so I don't have any details like whether she would expect me to pay rent and things like that. But still it's a possibility and little ray of hope at the end of what has been a pretty rubbish day. I'm hopefully going to see her tomorrow so I can check it out properly.
Oh, one highlight of the day: I was walking home when I heard this voice say, "Scuze me, can you help me?" This woman was hanging out the window of a ground floor flat, waving to get my attention. She had been locked in the flat but the parking ticket on her car was about to run out and she wanted to know if I would help. She threw out (very trustingly, I think) some money wrapped in a bit of paper and I bought her a ticket and stuck it under the windscreen wipers. It made me feel slightly better to have helped someone, and made me grin every time I thought about how random it must have looked to anyone walking by. This city is many, many things, but never boring.
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