“…anything!” coaxed my sister.
It’s not for want of material that I took such a long, unplanned break. I traveled – to London, Stockholm and Istanbul. I met lots of people, had many fascinating encounters and collected blog-worthy stories (that I am thinking would also work very well in a film script ).
I also moved apartments – three times in as many months – and became yet another victim of Tel Aviv’s ultra-sleazy, uber-Darwinian real estate market. I am thinking of designing and marketing a T-shirt that has a red slash line through the word “landlord.”
I finally finished writing the second edition of City Guide Tel Aviv, to be published next month.
Oh yes, and I also gave up my pack-a-day cigarette habit. Cold turkey! Biggest accomplishment of my life. I swear.
Most of all – and here we have a little bit of uncharacteristic true confessions (well, there is that claim that one’s blog is like one’s home; so do come in and gather ’round, dear readers) – I have been a woman on the verge for several months. You know how life sometimes gets to you, and you feel as though you are always about to have an anxiety attack, you can’t sleep properly and you can’t see the difference between a major crisis and a small problem? When you forget to return phone calls, send emails and pick up packages at the post office? When you miss deadlines and can’t work up the self-discipline to organize your monthly bills for the accountant? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please hug yourself, whisper a prayer to your deity or spiritual entity of choice, and skip to the next paragraph.
Anyways, I am feeling better now. It helps to have really, really good friends.
Last week I met one of those friends for the first time. We’d been sharing our personal lives online for about two years, but we’d never had an opportunity to meet face-to-face. We both work hard, we live in different countries, and – oh yes, one more factor: the nationalities…
So we decided to meet here:
And we had a fabulous, adventure-filled long weekend holiday together. Details of said adventures will be in my next post.
If you liked my post, feel free to subscribe to my rss feeds
25 Comments so far (Add 1 more)
on April 11th, 2008 at 10:48 am
on April 11th, 2008 at 11:48 am
on April 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
on April 11th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
on April 11th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
on April 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
on April 11th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
on April 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
on April 11th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
on April 12th, 2008 at 1:19 am
on April 12th, 2008 at 11:26 am
on April 13th, 2008 at 7:05 am
on April 13th, 2008 at 7:39 am
on April 13th, 2008 at 10:15 am
on April 14th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
on April 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
on April 16th, 2008 at 6:58 am
on April 16th, 2008 at 11:02 am
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:03 am
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
on April 23rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
on April 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
on May 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
on May 6th, 2008 at 8:28 am