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.

So we finally decided to visit Budapest for spring holiday (Memorial Day weekend for those in the states) this year. We have a long list of places we want to visit for an extended weekend and my Other Half decided Budapest intrigued and appealed to him.I'm going to email a friend in Slovenia to see if she has any suggestions about which half of the city to stay in, the Buda or the Pest side, as the city is actually 2 divided by the Danube River. Our aims for the weekend are modest and personal, not touristy; no plans to visit as many palaces and museums as one can cram into 4 days. Rather, we want to stroll along the old streets, perhaps take a cruise down the Danube, find a few marvelous restaurants to indulge in gorgeous food and wine, a cafe to sit and people watch and lots of time to talk to each other.