May 17, 2013 — Oluremi
May 17, 2013 — Oluremi
A huge part of my day begins at 12AM, thanks to the fact that I’m still unemployed and PHCN isn’t in their best element these days — they’ve decided the best use of power is between the hours of 12 and 7AM. When you’ve spent the last four years being tutored by your lecturers that the only way up is to get a job, one more day of waiting to leave home at 6AM doesn’t seem too much anymore.
I usually get a lot of stuff done in the early hours of the day, completing diverse applications that my employed friends never fail to bless me with, writing online assessments, catching up with Mad Men/Game of Thrones, and reeling through the unending world of fandom that is Tumblr. By 8AM, I’m pretty much exhausted and I’m pleased to hit the sheets and make sleep my master for pretty much the remaining part of the day.
For today, the routine didn’t change pretty much — just add watching videos of Asa’s acoustic performances on YouTube at 3 in the morning, and an endless wait for the result of a competence-based assessment I just filled. It is bad enough not knowing when the Lord Jesus will return; adding aptitude test results to it is indeed a momentous thing to bear when you’re barely 26. Since the result of the assessment didn’t come fast enough, I indulged myself with backlog episodes of Game of Thrones; spiced up by the Twitter folk with their spoilers. In between, my obsession with Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) took me off to Tumblr and back. Whilst still waiting, I stumbled on Igoni Barret’s ‘A Nairobi Story of Coming and Going’ by chance, I have never seen Nairobi described with such words before. Amazing.
The result of the assessment did come through, and I was successful. The road to getting an ‘offer letter’ is paved with unending assessments. With that piece of good news, my day was already made even before it started.
It’s 8AM, and the sheets are calling.
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Oluremi is an art lover, a struggling writer, and a failed entrepreneur. He has an untidy home here.