I’m going to Barcelona tomorrow! I have a whole week off work, starting now, and I will be spending five days of it in Spain. I’ve never been to Spain before, and it appeared on this year’s list of places to go, when I realised that I could easily afford it. I don’t want to [...]
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Sushi for the soul
I think I am becoming addicted to sushi. In the last few weeks I have eaten it every day for lunch, and I can’t seem to get enough of it. Yesterday whilst in town I plucked up the courage to go into a sushi restaurant on my own, I was so keen not to end [...]
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Since journalling yesterday I’ve felt a bit flat. I can think of a number of reasons why. I was meant to have a date yesterday evening, with Moshe, the lovely Israeli guy I met last weekend. Unfortunately my phone didn’t seem to be working, and none of his messages came through until late in the [...]
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Integration
The sun is shining brightly, the first signs of spring are possibly here, though it’s still bloody cold outside. I feel good. It’s been an interesting week. After my latest emotional crisis on Tuesday, the old spiritual malady seems to have settled down a bit, and I’m getting on with things once again. Tempers at [...]
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It’s been a bad enough day. Somehow, as always, I’m managing to make it even harder. Work was absolutely crap, to start with. Melanie was in one of her (increasingly frequent) bad moods all day, and as a consequence, everyone was in a bad mood. Because I have become slightly co-dependent on her, I was [...]
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I hope I am not being too overdramatic in calling the past few days ‘challenging’. It hasn’t been a terrible week by any stretch of the imagination. My life has not changed at all since last week. I am still in a job, still living with friends in Waterloo, still maintaining full responsibility for myself. [...]
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