Are you a good blogger or a bad blogger? Obviously I'm the latter for not dedicating my life to sharing my thoughts with the world.

Anyway, besides my primary current quest to find an affordable 2 bedroom apt in Manhattan, I'm reading a construction history of Union Station in Washington DC. Sounds riveting, doesn't it? It's actually quite interesting, but it's also work related.

I feel like I'm just marking time till I find an apt and can begin the settling in and making it a home process. Meanwhile, I worry about my finace in London and he worries about me. Will nations start closing borders because of SARS? In that case, I'll have to close up shop in the states ahead of time and move to London. That's my long term plan, about 2 years from now. Currently Alan and I commute across the atlantic about every 6 weeks with daily calls and email to help fill the yawning voids.Once I get an apt, we'll shorten those voids to 3-4 weeks.

Read Phillip Larkin's poems. I do, and I reread them and reread them. Even if you hate poetry, read them anyway.