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So the sword finally falls

Started by lady amarant, April 30, 2008, 02:11:53 PM

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lady amarant

Okay, so some of you might remember that I was having trouble with my landlady.

Well, this weekend is the end of the month. By the fourth, I'm out, and with her retaining my deposit, I'm going to find it hard to find somewhere else to stay for a while. Luckily I have some friends whom I can couch-surf with, but I'm ... in transit for a while. Add to that the difficulty of finding short-term lets in London, and well, yeah.

So simply put, I'm going to be gone for while, perhaps even till I go back to South Africa. (And who knows what kind of a situation I'll find there) I will try and log on every now and again from work, but there too, the Firewall gets a longer list of barred sites every day, so likely not.

If I don't talk to you all again, thanks for everything. These past few months have been a period of enormous growth and an absolute education. I thank you all for the advice, comments, jokes and pure, plain silliness. The Real World was/is a scary place when you are more or less alone in a foreign city, start transitioning et al, and this was a definite safe-place for me.

But I intend to be back! Maybe things work out and I have a lovely new place inside of a week, and I just log back on as usual. If not though, a couple of weeks, a couple of months, but for sure.

Thanks everybody. I love you all.

~Simone.
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jonjon

as long as you have fun and good times during this crappy time... will make everything worth while.

Good luck! And take care, try not to get yourself into trouble  ;)
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Moira Midnigh

 :'(

But who will write Afrikaans for me to translate, then?

Who will fell our trees when you are gone, Steve McMannis?

Who will...*sniff*...wh...*sob*...be strong, Moira, dammit...be strong...don't...cry...*wails*

Okay. I'm okay.

No, I'm not, but I am okay. Yeah.

Did you let her know the extent of your unhappiness with the situation? I mean, really let her know and made sure she felt it too?


Tch. I hope you won't be gone too long or too frequently, Simone. I hope it all works out and we'll all live happily ever after. Oh, and with lots of love and prosperity. And yeah.

Good luck, girl! Keep your head high.


~Moi
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sd

Sorry, to see you have to go Lady A.
Good luck to you in your travels and I hope to see you again soon.
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Pica Pica

Look forward to seeing the cat with no ears again in the soontime.
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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tinkerbell

I hope it all goes well, Simone.  You will be back!  ;)  The best of luck to you!

tink :icon_chick:
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bethzerosix

try to not be gone long.......k? :'(
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Shana A

Hope your situation improves! Come back and see us soon!

Z
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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NicholeW.

O, Simone, that's making me have a saddy-face!! I'll miss your great good sense and your irrepressible charm and wit. Here's hoping it's shorter than longer till we see you a regular poster again.

HUGS, and go with Mother, as you always do.

Nichole
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tekla

You ain't gonna go anywhere.  Get a laptop and use public internet connections, or go to some internet cafe, but you must keep in touch or I shall miss you so much.
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buttercup

Please come back soon Simone, I will miss you heaps too.  :)   Not fair this is happening, that bl**dy mean landlady!!   >:(
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Lisbeth

So is she keeping the deposit because you couldn't find a replacement rentor?  Or because she's a lying piece of *bleep*?
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Pica Pica

Lisbeth, I think the phrase you were looking for was 'opportunistic, moneygrabbing piece of filth.'
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offthesidewalk

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Quote from: Moira Midnigh on April 30, 2008, 03:22:17 PM
:'(

But who will write Afrikaans for me to translate, then?
ek kan. *smiles*

But anyhow- i never knew there was anyone else from South Africa here. all the best tho.

sien jou gou weer.
take care.
*stranger hugs*
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Annwyn

I will miss yoooouuuu.

But I mean, just think about it.  You've grown up a lot lately.  Even IF you do go back, that place won't be the same for you.  You'll get the satisfaction of old family and friends being near you, but you'll know a hell of a lot more about being an adult than ever before!
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shanetastic

You better come back Simone.  Or I'm coming for you!!!!  :P

I hope everything works out though if you don't.  You're an awesome person, so keep being cool!
trying to live life one day at a time
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Lisbeth

Quote from: Pica Pica on May 01, 2008, 08:21:35 AM
Lisbeth, I think the phrase you were looking for was 'opportunistic, moneygrabbing piece of filth.'

Ya, I'll go with that!
"Anyone who attempts to play the 'real transsexual' card should be summarily dismissed, as they are merely engaging in name calling rather than serious debate."
--Julia Serano

http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2011/09/transsexual-versus-transgender.html
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Seshatneferw

Me too! That is, sorry to hear of this, hoping to see you back soon, and wishing you luck. And also glad that you came here in the first place.

:-*

  Nfr
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Alyssa M.

Ach! I just saw this!

I'm so sorry about your housing situation. I'll miss your posts a great deal. I hope you can be back very soon!
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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lady amarant

Well, it's 2:45 in the morning here. My expectation of her kicking me out and retaining my deposit just came true. I got up to ... well, why do you usually get up at 2:30 in the morning, and when I got back to my room, a very nice little letter, all official sounding and stuff, had been pushed under my door. I won't bore you all with the details, but the highlight for me is this little gem of a line:

"You moved in here by deception and I let you move in under duress."

Gods, I mean, does my gender and/or sexuality have anything to do with me being a tenant? She makes it sound like I held a gun to her head. I told her about my being trans as a courtesy, and was ready to give up the room and the holding deposit I'd already given her. But as they say, humans will find every reason they can to justify themselves to themselves.

This experience has been karma in action though, the threefold law as clear as daylight. When I was at university, I was a landlord myself for a while, and I let my personal issues interfere with how I treated my tenants, not to this extent, but that's why it's called the threefold law. ;) This is simply the universe balancing the scales on my behalf.

And if there's anything else I can take from this it's to trust my intuition. I knew when I moved in, that this was a bad move, but on thinking things through rationally and getting advice from various people, I signed the contract anyway and stayed. My intuition has been growing stronger and stronger these past few months, and I am learning to trust it again, and I will never again let it be overrode by stupid rationalisations. Logic is fine for puzzling things out, but it has no place in decision-making. You need facts to think things out, and you rarely have them all before you're forced to decide.

I confess (sorry, wrong thread ;) ) that I have never been much of a social person, and that this is new territory for me - being part of a community that really does care about each other, and about me.

Thanks everybody for the well-wishes and support. I love you all to bits. *Hugs*

Okay, so this'll be my last post. Tomorrow, well today later, I put most of my stuff into storage, PC included, and start doing the hostel rounds and community squats tomorrow night.

Blessed Be, all of you,

~Simone.
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