Looking for a room to rent

So today is a day off from work in the restaurant kitchen. Very late morning, and I don't like it this way.

While going about the usual morning exercise, at one point I see part of myself seeing Jacek sitting on the floor, like in the flash.

A little task for today is to set myself to interact with material objects with more care and to be aware of the sensation when I touch them.

Afterwards I spend quite a substantial time for room & job search, which goes quite smoothly, I actually enjoy it !

I bought a new phone last night to replace already defeated Sony Ericson. I decided to get one with built in skype, it also has the mp3 player. I guess modern mobile users take something like this for granted now, but for somebody who bought his first and only phone 4 years ago it sounds like a luxury. It reminds me of something I've heard about one very fine old AT teacher. She couldn't understand why people chew gums and wear walkmans, now mp3 players... People who wear these kind of devices tend to withdraw inside them and disconnect from their environment, and this is something she couldn't understand, but how many people think this way these days ? Well, I guess I doesn't have to be like this. We can choose not to withdraw.

I have lunch after which head off to Rushulme to view one room. It's a gorgeous, really wonderful sunny day in Manchester, Lancashire. I walk along the Moseley Road, then up the Wilmslow Road to get the sense of the neighbourhood area. There's a wonderful big park on my left called Patt Fields. It's really large and spacious and it would be great to have it nearby. Then once you cross the street and enter the Rusholme, the vibe changes completely. It's a very vibrant and colourful place with many restaurants around: Indian, Pakistani, Turkish etc. That's what this place is famous for. I like this area and the flat is ok, but I prefer to have few more rooms to choose from, and I promise to get back to the owner of the place in few days.

Back in the flat. JotD discharged, but there are no proper tools to do the job as it should be done. I do my best anyway and then clean my room.

I spend evening researching more places, some emails and hang around with flatmates. We watch few videos of the new character created by the same man who was behind Ali G and Borat. This is just superb, great acting skills. He is very good in responding to the situations on the spot and seems to find it very easy to enter the world of the other person to expose our lower nature side. Very funny and entertaining but also quite scary sometimes ! Burst out in laughter comedy type for me.

AT lie-down, then it's time for evening meditation which became rather unreliable practice these days. There are days when I do it, and there are days when I don't. Today it's nourishing and healing to sit down and remind myself about this stillness, silence & simplicity.

I post my journals late again. 2:29 now.