And Now Our Story Ends

So I am officially finished with my MA. My dissertation was handed in last Friday, my student discounts all expired today--I am no longer a student.
It's kind of weird (and it makes me sad, because damn it, I loved those discounts) but that's life. I've been applying to jobs all over the world but none of them have responded. So I am at a point in my life where I am terrified because I have no idea what I'm doing. I fly home to Kansas on  November 5th, so I'll be home at least for Thanksgiving if not longer, but beyond that I just don't know. I'm going to keep applying to jobs and just see what happens.
These past few months I've not done much at all. I got a job, so it's nice that I have a little bit of spending money from that but it's not like it will keep me here for long term. I like the job though--the people are nice and the work I do is good enough. It's in a restuarant but it's not customer service, which I appreciate. I've never worked in a restaurant before, so it's weird to see it all from the outside. I've got a few weeks off now since we work in multiple restaurants around the city usually but our pilots just ended at two of them and we won't start at others for a while. So I used my time off last week to write my dissertation and this week I'm using it to clean and get my room ready for new flatmates to come look at it. I've managed to find a wall-cleaner that actually works, which is fantastic. Apparently I'm a pro at leaving scuff marks on walls and when you combine that with white washed walls, it just makes everything really hard to clean. But so far it's working!
I've really only done a few exciting things these past few months. In August I worked at a place called LonCon. It's a massive Science Fiction convention that's held all over the world. This year was London and so I had the chance to work for a company called Skyboat Media that makes audiobooks. It was really fun actually! The people that I worked with were absolutely fantastic and it was great to get to see people in all sorts of costumes and meet authors and whatnot. Plus a few of my friends were there as participants and attendees, so I got to chat with them every once in a while. It was a very good time for sure.
Also, one of the guys I worked for won a Hugo award that weekend. It's pretty much the biggest award you can get in science fiction so it's a big deal. I was really happy for him and I won't li, it's pretty neat to say that I've worked with someone who has won such a prestigious award.
The other cool thing that happened recently is that I won tickets to see Beck at iTunes Festival--it's a month long festival put on by Apple that features massive acts every night for a month. It happens in this venue near my flat called Roundhouse and all the tickets are free, you just have to put your name in a drawing for tickets to each show (or just the shows you want to see) and then they randomly select people. Most people have to go through iTunes, but I'm a member of Roundhouse's student club thingy, so I got to enter for tickets through them.
I'm so happy that I got tickets to see Beck. I've loved him since the 90s but had never seen him before, so it was just fantastic! He's spectacular live, I highly recommend it.
Anyway, this next month I've got a lot of neat things planned. This weekend I'm going to eat Jamaican food with some friends, and to a Horrors concert that Caleb got me tickets to for my birthday (THANK YOU CALEB!!!). Monday I am having lunch with a friend who is visiting from the States and that night I am seeing Scottsboro Boys! It's a fantastic musical and it's opening on the West End for the first time on Saturday, so I'm thrilled that I get to go. Tuesday I am going to a taping of Nevermind the Buzzcocks (assuming I can get in, as they oversell tickets to those sorts of things). I LOVE LOVE LOVE Nevermind the Buzzcocks and have been trying for years to get tickets, so it makes me SO happy that I have the chance now.
After that the London Film Festival is starting. I have tickets to something like 15 movies over a two week period. It's going to be intense, but I had so much fun last year that I'm sure I will love this year too.
Then I've got a few weeks of nothing where I'm going to try and get in some sight seeing (and go to see the Harry Potter tour, finally!) and maybe also go to some fireworks shows since November 5th is Bonfire Night. They tend to celebrate on the weekends here though, so there will be plenty of shows to choose from.
Also, I have tickets to see Cat Stevens on November 4th! He's always been such a big influence in my life (I'm not kidding--that man's music (specifically the soundtrack to Harold and Maude) shaped my childhood. I LOVE him) so the the fact I have the chance to see him the DAY before I leave London is just beautiful.
Last time I moved away from London in 2009 I was supposed to see him a week before I left. I got a call on the day of the concert from the ticket people telling me they had oversold tickets and that as a result I couldn't go see him. It actually made me cry.
But that had better not happen this time! I bought my tickets and I am determined to go! I will raise hell if they try to tell me I can't see him again!

On that happy note, I genuinely have no idea if I'll ever update this thing again (I'll try to get in at least once more before I leave or maybe once more when I get back to the USA), but in case I don't...bye, I guess. See you on the other side.