July 02, 2002 : summer fever
I know when the sun starts peeking out from winter clouds and kids are roudy and businessmen restless it spells out Spring Fever. Well I've got the summer version. I've got the out-of-school, first completely-free-day-for-4-months fever. I've got a huge expanse of time stretching out in front of me and a TO DO list already 7 lines long. (on a good day, I could do them all)
So what's with all of the confusion and/or disorientation? Where have all the entries gone? (this is my first one in 4 days, though I've stared 2 of the 4) I'll tell you where they've gone. They are rotting in my brain. They are rotting in my brain because I can't bare to make myself use the computer right now. Forget that it's a unassuming laptop, it doesn't help. I can't even email. It makes me shudder.
I'm working on it. I'll get over it soon. Maybe with some strong drink (coffee) and some reading time (finishing Boating for Beginners) I'll be forced into my TO DO list and my fingers will start flowing over the letters again. It's not that I can't type, it's that I can't sit down long enough TO type. And I guess it's not that either, it's that I'll sit in front of the keyboard and then blank out. Is it because we've had good weather (save yesterday) and our "office" is situated right next to a window?
Maybe I should just take a much needed shower, start chopping off my hair, go out and buy a new second-hand shirt...get back to the real me. I'm wearing a nightie for christ's sake. (I actually love the nightie, it was more about a frame of mind)
Oh my god, we're making progress.
I was even thinking of convincing Eva and I to find a scarily cool skirt and top to wear in Italy. (I'm shaking my head as we speak.)
Whatever happened to chain-wallet comfy-corderoyed, bed-headed, music-blaring Andrea?!?! What happened when I turned 26 and is it possible to get her back?!?! And do I want her back? I like my hair, even though no one else seems to and yes, of course, I'm sick of wearing the 5 t-shirts I've been wearing for the last 8 months.
I'll have to get back to you on this. It's all a mystery. These questions might just be looming overhead because I still have a day of jet-lag to kick in the ass and because we're contemplating moving to Brussels, and that will mean a whole NEW language...and I'm just getting used to Flemish. I'm actually doing pretty well...yesterday we were riding the slow train from Brussels and I wrote poetry (in humorous Dutch, of course) for 3 of the cities we passed through; Villevoorde, Epegem, and Mechelen.
So I guess we'll see. It's the first day of Summer for me, and I'll see what the summer brings. By the time it is over it will be November already and we'll be figuring out how to pay for Christmas flights or why the EURO is worth more than the DOLLAR and we'll be talking about how we still love our tiny little place or how we still love our new apartment. I might even be talking about French lessons and how I miss saying kaas broodje and how I have to now say pain fromage.
We'll see. Stay patient.
Oh, and it's raining again.
IN THE NEWS:
Hours after vetoing a resolution extending the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Bosnia, the United States agreed last night to keep the mission alive for three more days while the Security Council tries to find a formula to satisfy Washington's demand for immunity from a new global war crimes court.
Thank you for Leila via Eva bringing this to my attention. Does anyone else see a problem with this? Get this quote...
"The new court's main targets are the future...Adolf Hitlers of the world, but the United States fears the court could go after Americans in frivolous political prosecutions because of its status as the global superpower."
Enough said.
