In keeping with the busted broke theme, I went to the Job Centre today to try to sign on (transatlantic translation: get welfare). It turns out that I can’t sign on because of this interviewer job, but the problem is, of course, that the interviewer job doesn’t pay me enough to live off. Ultimately I [...]
The police have finally declared me free of the criminal lurgy and so I have been able to start a job which, whilst not paying enough to make ends meet, is, at least, a start. I am a face-to-face interviewer for a social research agency which essentially means I cycle and walk around London a [...]
And so, the time has come to close out my feelings about my Israel / Palestine trip. I thought six entries for the six people in my travelling group was an appropriate place to stop, and to try to lighten the load I shall fill this with random memories of why, no matter how difficult [...]
I recently came across a book I had to have. (I’m always coming across a book I “had to have.” I recently quit a job at a bookshop for a few reasons, but a factor was that I didn’t make any money: all my wages went back to him because of books I “had to [...]
There are roughly three positions to take on the Israel / Palestine issue. (1) You are an “ardent Zionist” with little to no concern about the plight of the Palestinians. (2) You are staunchly pro-Palestinian and may, or may not, want to get rid of Israel. (3) You fall in the indeterminable mass of grey [...]
The PSofmyB said my emails don’t make him want to go to Israel any time soon. That’s not what I mean to be doing here. I want you to go because your experience will no doubt be different from ours and that’s kind of the point here. These dichotomous viewpoints that might one day be [...]
