Serious Withdrawal Symptoms

I'm hardly playing any poker at the moment and it's driving me nuts. My boss and director of the Summer Programme that I'm working for banned me from playing with the students at the end of last year's programme. I'd taken too much money off them and he was worried about the possible reaction of some of their parents. Fair enough; my job is pretty much just to socialise with them but I do have a degree of responsibility, I guess. Still, I'm missing playing A LOT. Last night down in the college bar was torture: some of them had started up a game and I just had to stand back and be a freaking railbird. That sucked.

I'm also hardly getting any time to play online what with random summer programme admin, wedding plans and job hunting, which means that when I do I'm really impatient for some action and play like a moron. I'm also running off a pretty meagre bankroll since I had to pay myself during the weeks prior to this summer job.

Plans for the wedding are moving along, finally. I think we'll make it there with most things covered. Less than five weeks to go..... damn exciting. That also means that I'm off the Dublin in less that three weeks for my stag do. Bring it on!

On the house hunting front, we've found ourselves a nice little one-bedroom 'maisonette' which we're gonna rent. It's small but really nice and a pretty good location for the price. It's in zone 3 of North London, so it's both lively and only about 20 mins to the centre by Tube. I figure I can drive to the Gutshot in less than half an hour which will be awesome. I'm also gonna try and fix up a regular home game - maybe on Saturday nights.

All that remains now is to find a job. It's probably going to be a while till I'm settled in what I want to do so I'll probably have to sign up with a few temping agencies and just haul-ass for a while. That's gonna suck, but hey - I'm gonna have a wife to come home to and that's gonna be awesome! Can you tell that I'm excited about this whole getting hitched lark?!

I'd definately consider dealing poker in the short-term if it didn't require such anti-social hours. It would be a really useful grounding for one of my long-term ambitions which is to own a poker club.

I have to dash. Must eat before our big soccer game this afternoon against the SMU Summer Programme, which is based here in the same college as the UVA one I'm working with. Time to kick some Sourthern Methodist Butt!