YAY/Departure/It’s Still Alive

First of all, there are no capitals big enough for that ‘yay’, let me tell you. This week I managed, against all odds, to finish my manuscript. Can’t you just feel the relief radiating from your screen? Boy, it took forever. So far the feedback has been good. And publication date’s sometime next summer, it seems. I’ll be tidying up little bits and pieces from now on, but nothing major. ¡Basta Ya!

Other than that, my departure date’s been fixed. I’m out of here on the 22nd of December. The original plan was to go home for the holidays, then come back to pack. But I’ve done away with the second half of that plan –after all, what’s the point of spending money on a plane ticket just to come and shove things into cardboard boxes? And anyway, there isn’t even a whole lot of that to be done since, as you may remember, I never really unpacked in the first place. It’s basically clothes, a few books, and tiny things accumulated over the past year. Two days tops, in other words. I’m not worried.

So that leaves me two more months over here. Not much to be said, since at the moment I have zero social life. It’s pretty much me, my books, my laptop, the swimming pool and the waves. I do have someone I’m seeing once a week, which is helping me not to go insane. Not a therapist as such, but I do think it’s been helpful. At least I’m a bit better than, say, a month ago. It’s been rough. It still is, really, but at least right now I feel as if my head’s above water. I don’t plan to do much with the rest of my time here. I don’t think there is not much to be done, apart from hanging in there and trying to get a little better every day.

You may have noticed I haven’t been around much. I haven’t been commenting much on your blogs, and I’ve been finding it hard to blog myself. Somehow my thoughts just don’t translate into sentences. This is me giving it a go anyway, just to let you know I’m still floating around in cyberspace…