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a lot has happened again. finland won hockey gold. UK is about to have Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt as a prime minister. dear god how depressing it is to even write that...     miss R and her gf came to London for a visit, they are here until tomorrow. so, midsummer amongst girls as doctor is working. a short while back a someone i know through work sexually harassed me. all women experience it in some shape or form and probably several times in their lifetime...as have i. for some reason i took this harder than "usual" though, at this age and in that situation it just felt extra humiliating. what was super hard but felt necessary was taking it up with "management", although it's not our company but there is a connection so from us it went to them and it was adressed properly. im glad i did it and also i spoke with him after and got an apology and felt like it cleared the air. so, done and dusted but it does suck that this just keep happening in 2019...  post #metoo and all. then, i lost my work laptop. okay, its encrypted and all so all is safe but still what a horrible thing. it completely f*cked me over mentally, i felt so bad. i had just forgotten it somewhere and a colleague had taken it (hence it was not there when i called the place afterwards to ask), and they had for a couple of days forgotten they had it. couldve saved a lot of heartache had they not forgotten but in ethe end, it was safe and i got it back.

...and then, on monday i saw an ad for a flat in Brixton and booked a viewing. we liked it, made an offer the next day. it was accepted and things have moved forward. scary. ive had to then deal with the solicitors and mortgage brokers again because the agency is pushing their own and we werent sure about the solicitors and they are all like hyenas, seriously. pestering you, trying to pull you in, trying to make you feel like you have already signed a contract with them, calling constantly... and the agent wants to push things forward so you'd be more locked in. of course, in the UK either party can pull out at any point until papers are signed (which is 2+ montsh in, at the very end). i don't agree with this practise but considering that you get zero information about the property beforehand(!), i'm glad there is that option. so we first found a surveyor and sent him to see the property and evaluate it. also, the floorplan is ok but needs some work - namely, there is a separate toilet, and the bathroom does not have a toilet. the dividing wall needs to go, i want one large bathroom. this is a dealbreaker, so if the survey & evaluation is ok first of all, then we will have the solicitor check with the land owner whether we can break that wall to make it one bathroom. should be ok, its not a weightbearing wall and this is done a lot nowdays i assume.and after that... i think we are good to go. then its just lots of paperwork, people say its a horrid process. i have mixed emotions about the mortgage, ive never had debt in my life so its like....eeeeek. but, trying to be adult here. i do want us to have our own place.

the flat is in the building on the left.

im also worried about the value, like, will it go up like rest of Brixton should do. and if so, when? cos Brexit may cause a serious economic crisis, i would expect prices to go further down for a couple years. but the hope is that in about 7-8 years or so they would be back up and higher than now. but nobody knows about the future, so it's just a jump into the unkown that u have to take. not my kind of thing.

the Natalie Portman/Moby thing was ...uh. very disappointed with Moby.

hahaa, Trudeau bans anti-abortion groups from funding summer jobs (or something along those lines). good stuff. does not balance off the insanity going on in the US but will have to do for now.