In January, I was killing it. I'd been promoted, work was going well, I lived in a city I love, hanging out with an awesome group of friends and regular girls nights, and I was basically back to "normal" - athletic, but curvy, after 2 major injuries and, y'know, living in Suburbia and having to ...
Heard about this blog via the lovely Erica, and since I wonder if I have enough local friends (and, obviously moving, the answer will once again be no) seemed like the book (Amazon) would be just the thing for one of the many, many long haul flights I'm taking. I really enjoyed it, very honest and funny. ...
For someone who seems to have an incurable fear of forms, I move too often. There is nothing I have found so far that has more bureaucracy than moving, especially if that move requires you to obtain a visa. Dealing with the logistics is time-consuming and stressful, but not hard. Dispose of assets: car (the last tie to ...
On a recent Monday morning, I was barely awake and not keen to get up, I thought, "wow, I feel terrible. Why do I feel so terrible?" And a little voice in my head answered, "it's because you flew economy on Friday". And then I hated myself. I mean, sure, if I'd flown economy from Europe or ...
It's weird being single again. When things weren't great, when I wasn't happy - when I didn't think things would work out, I never thought ahead to this point. Saturday night with nothing to do. Putting a friend down as my emergency contact on a form. It's good. I'm not down about it. I was at ...
Travel gives me a lot of time to think, the planes, the airports, the queues. And the jetlag - there's no lonelier time than four in the morning, wherever you happen to be. Probably clear from my last post that I've had a lot to think about, lately. Still going to have to be enigmatic and elusive (sorry!), ...
adventures, chaos, life, loss, travel
When I get stressed travelling, I have this mantra that I repeat to myself: Passport, wallet, keys, cellphone. Everything else you can buy. It doesn't mean that losing/forgetting something else might not be expensive, or a giant pain to fix. The point is, that only the loss of some things is a genuine crisis. I can't pretend ...
There are a zillion things to do in New York City, but my favorite thing to do is walk across it. Every kind of person, demographic. See people out shopping, walking home after a marathon, out with their kids. Overhear people speaking Spanish, Italian, Farsi, French, Chinese, Japanese, and, yes, English - American, and English-English, ...
At the end of last week, I wrote that it had been "a mixed week". And then on Monday, things went and got crazier. I'm still waiting for the dust to settle so that I can figure out what is actually going on. A friend is in town for a while. Last time I saw him, he told ...
It's been a mixed week. Some successes - Awesome Foundation! Girl Geek Dinner! Getting my visa sorted! And then a number of things that made me wonder why I was bothering. Mostly stupid things, and you could say that I shouldn't worry about them - but that is easy to say, and hard to do. Telling ...
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