‘But were too sensible to ask’
Being on the other side of the world hasn’t stopped me getting into a familiar routine, albeit starting four hours earlier. My new job at gameplay has been going for nine days now, and I can feel myself becoming ingrained into the structure of the place. My job is to sit with the web development team and fix JavaScript and Html problems they come across. It’s probably not my ideal job, but it’s a good start, with the opportunity to get into some more interesting areas. The gameplay corporation has offices in London, Leeds and Colchester, and is slowly expanding into France and Germany. I work near Farringdon and Chancery Lane stations, which is the only reference point I have. The building I work in is located in an innocuous looking alley, but has just been refurbished with the gameplay colours (yellow and purple), and infested with two foot plastic models of the gameplay logos. I work on the fourth floor, and unfortunately have to walk up it most of the time as the lift is a little unreliable.
Going from looking for a place to live, to looking for a job, to working very full-time hasn’t given me a lot of time to soak up the local culture. I did manage to get out to a club in Brixton called The Fridge. There’s a big main room with a mezzanine, which is infused with jugglers and stilt-walkers among the artificially frenzied throng.
I’m sorry not to have been writing a bit more regularly but I have to be in a certain mood to write letters (which I’m not in at the moment). I think it involves a lot of sleep and alcohol. People might call artists lazy, but I think they’re just working in their own way.
Goodbye for now. I’ll write more when I do more and feel the creative juices flowing in a torrent.
Dave out.
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