HELLO EVERYONE

Welcome to the new shorter blog from Rob. I thought you dummies might read it if it was shorter. Let's start by telling you where I should be right now:

In Sydney, with a job and with a flat.

But where am I?

In Melbourne, sponging off family and friends frantically searching for a job and a flat.

My last blog in 'Diary of a follow spot' left me in Dubai, with my mother and with high ambitions. Well let me tell you what happened next.

Dubai is pretty darn boring. After my mother left, I was left with no flight as she had tried to move it. I went to stay with some family friends, spending days and days doing fuck-all really wanting to get out but being trapped by the manacles of no money and no energy. I mean, there are only a small number of shopping centers you can visit before being bored out of your skull.

THE FLIGHT COLLEGE

The family who kindly let me stay in their home were all out of the country, apart from the mother, Catherine. Catherine works for Emirates, the airline, training cabin crew and running the cabin crew college. To save me from death by boredom, she took me in to see it. I managed to wangle firstly a go in the flight simulator. An actual plane that simulates a crash. The man doing the simulator came on the intercom: "We are traveling at 32,000 feet and will be crashing very shortly". He said this in that very friendly voice you hear on all planes, which was extremely unnerving.

ROB THE ACTOR

I thing that I love is acting, and I was asked to put all my ability (Not an amazing amount) into acting as a disgruntled passenger for a lunch training exercise. I got to sit in the new first class seats on the new A380 plane, which are actual rooms, and get waited on by beautiful women. Good news. Being disgruntled, I couldn't say thank you and I couldn't look them in the eye, but it was very hard not to look at them in other places, I can tell you.

AWAY, FINALLY!

After 6 days of not much, I felt useless, alone and bewildered. I was on a wait list for a flight out of Dubai, the only flight available going to Melbourne. I had been told I was upgraded, so the 4 hour wait at the airport to see if I could get on the flight wasn't all that bad. I can tell you however, that I wasn't in a good way at 3 in the morning unsure of what the hell I was going to do. I did the usual ring round of friends, only to find most of them drunk out on the town or with Uni mates. Sometimes it's hard to get to grips with the fact that most of your friends from school have moved on. Ex-girlfriends, old buddies, they have new lives, new circles they mix in. You might have guessed, or you might just know that I think about things too much, so I've decided to just let everyone be. To stop being so sentimental about relationships that didn't really exist anyway and to move on into real life.

MELBOURNE, AGAIN

So, here I am, looking up everyone I've ever known in Melbourne, staying in an apartment belonging to family friends and searching the internet for a job and a place. I'm back to Square one ladies and gentleman.