Showing posts with label Norfolk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norfolk. Show all posts

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Living in the middle

It has been six days since I arrived in Norfolk, Virginia and it has been an interesting experience so far. In a lot of aspects, the surrounding areas seem to be lost between suburban and urban kind of lifestyle. Large aspects remind me of fast paced city life, yet other aspects remind me more of Florida. The need to drive most places is a good example of that and what it could entail.

That being said, I'm still looking for a doable means of transportation, whilst looking for an apartment, all while spending as little money as possible. Which has proven to be difficult. I don't know what it is about American money compared to Canadian money, but its just so much easier to spend. In a scary way, of course.  Dollar bills are still a weird concept, as are pennies. I guess I got too accustomed to using loonies and getting rounded change.

As for now though, my search continues, and this beard isn't coming off until I'm fully settled (or I have a job interview) 

Till next time

- L

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Can't Work Against Gravity

Although many tend to dream of levitation, or even defying the laws that gravity has set before us, we all know that they can't be broken; what has fallen, will continue till it's either interfered with an outside force, or inevitably hits the ground. In more ways than one, I'm the falling projectile heading downwards, and there's very little I can do to alter the situation.

In some good ways, I can't really worsen the current situation further than its current point, however I can always better it. In the end, it always comes down to monetary hardship and the struggle between trying to find ways to make dues with money you've already earned, or more ways to make said money in a shorter period of time. It's not easy. It never is. One thing is for certain out of all of this, and that thing, is that I'm moving to