New place, old plans

Off the blog for quite a few days now, mainly coz I am still settling down at my new place.
I still can't believe I shifted to Waterloo. Have been enjoying my first few days here. Work is 15 min away now, that too by bus!! I can actually think of walking to work on nice summer days, its probably just about a couple of kilometres.
Excited about Anu coming to this new house. He'll probably enjoy his stay much more now, although I know he was content at the last place as well. But this is going to be so much better anyway!
I have plans to roam about london (esp now that I live in the centre), get-together of a few friends, evenings out in soho and other places, n of course invites to all those events by Vish. Then of course our trip to Germany, which should be cosy (I hope there is snow there, I hope there is snow there, .....) .. And some more chilling out!!
Have been socialising as usual with the twenty something people, some of them I've begun to recognise and know well, which is very nice. Although if Anu had been here, I know I would have ended up going to the age no restriction meetings. It's because I personally don't feel threatened by older guys, though I know many can be absolute jerks.(And no, this is not because I am attracted to older guys, please....)
Anyway, I am enjoying my occassional evenings out well-spent with some really nice people.

Where are the girls?

Where are the girls, why is the feminine gender so acutely missing right now from my life story?
Well my girl friends have been from place of work or place of study, and here there are no girls around my working area or in my project at all. It is such a sad situation since I feel really comfortable and close to a girl when she gets to become a friend.
I am meeting so many men socially that I feel deprived of women's company. I think the solution lies in finding a larger variety of things to do socially.

Where should I look for girls -
* Lesbian bars - entry barred for me I think, and who the hell wants to go there anyway
* speed dating - ya sure
* friend's friends - better idea, but all my dear male friends also seem to be on the same path of girl-lessness like me
* cookery classes - they take 200 quid for those, and i dont want to learn cooking, i should be teaching that (which of course those dumb-a**es would not let me), and i think nowadays i will find men in these as well anyway
* clubs - risky, i am usually to be found looking at the handsome bf on the dance floor, and the girl may just be vengeful

Running out of ideas, please suggest.

Second Best

First the update, I should be shifting to Waterloo soon, right in ZONE UNO, and yes I am excited. :-)

Now on to the lament...
All the material things that come to me are the second best.
It is such a regular feature of my life, that it is scary and funny at the same time. Be it the choice of college, specialization, work project, house location, movie at the cinema or the dish that I order, I am usually denied my first choice by fate. Something or the other has to be wrong even in the best thing that comes my way, which leaves me in a "happy but could have been happier" state.
I should indeed be grateful that I get the second choice and not have to wait for the nth, but being the selfish prick I am, I don't always rejoice in this fact.
One concern that suddenly arises in my mind is that if I believe in the above too much, I might automatically start working less hard to get my first choice, knowing that I will eventually end up with the second choice anyway.

The sun is shining, so please don't be mad at me...

Today is one of those days.
Everything went well and everything went right.
Visa granted, albeit some suspense on the duration that they have obliged to grant it for. All work at office went smoothly and lots was achieved. The insurers faxed my physician and even though he is on holiday, the other physician called to say she will take care of it, so I can keep my knee appointment with the specialist on Saturday intact. Feels nice.
Yesterday was quite mixed in contrast, more worse than better. You can't expect the rest of the evening to go very well, if the boyfriend decides to get angry at your 'uncaring' attitude! I was really shaken to hear that said about me, and was left trembling in my pyjamas. And of course, trying to ask for forgiveness and make him feel better somehow. Today also, he has slept without talking to me and something tells me all my efforts to make him feel better yesterday night did not work fully well. I hated to feel like that and I will hate it even more if I make him feel like that at all, without meaning it, so I sincerely hope things will be completely alright tomorrow.
I have full faith the Munich trip will be real fun :-)
We will escape all the summer tourists and have all those charming locations to ourselves with some nice nip in the air. I am already visualising what all we will do!