I’ve had been a crazy time since last Friday. Too crazy and busy for me to write about. I came back from London yesterday evening.

I’m no longer moving to London. I have a pretty good work offer, which only needs me to be in London part-time. I have the solid base of a long-term plan. Things are looking good.

(Editorial note (which nobody will care about): I’m considering ending the “Dropout” series. I originally planned to start a new series called “London” when I moved in, but as that doesn’t seem to be going ahead I’m going to have to think of another title, and another reason. The diary entries will continue under a new title.)

Completely abandon it for a month, apparently.

I’m working on AllParty.org, a public database of All-Party Parliamentary Groups run by Paul Birch and Michael Halls-Moore.

This month has been pretty crazy, except I didn’t regularly blog about it. I’ve met some amazing people and done some great stuff.

Josh and I have been working together for the last couple of days in Manchester. We work in the Triangle shopping centre, which is very quiet because nobody ever goes in there. We work in the café on the bottom floor, using their Wi-Fi network. Sometimes we go up to Caffè Nero because they have one table hidden in the corner that has a power socket, so we can take turns at charging our MacBooks. Then we go to Tampopo or Zizzi’s for lunch and go back to the café when we’ve eaten. It’s a good fit, and it lets us get a lot done together.

Last night was my schoolfriend Sam’s 18th birthday party. It was fun seeing a load of people from school again, and explaining how my life is going outside of school. I mostly resisted the temptation to explain how school is a device for keeping students unaware that it’s a pointless exercise to convert people into factory and office workers. Can’t be having any more young delinquent dropouts. A number of people said they were reading this blog regularly, which was fun.

Anyway. I’ll try and keep this a bit more regularly updated now.