What a long time… and what news

Posted by yseult on Mar 29, 2006 in Personal | 3 comments

I actually do feel ashamed looking at the long time I have spent without writing anything. The sad trith is that I simply cannot find the time or even the leasure to have a nice sit-down to write anything interesting or even substantial. This goes for the Community, the Blog, my stories and the poems.
Work has been a real hassle and I am still no more closer to another paid job than I have been three months ago. So the plan is simply to push on as hard and fast as possible to get the PhD-thesis finished and then redecide on any future jobs and plans. Oxford is still an option, so is Rome. Who knows, maybe somewhere along the way something else might present itself…
… well, things have changed quite a bit since I have opened this blog while being in Paris. I am of course not talking about the French who are still protesting and immobilising a whole country,… nothing much changed there I must say. I am just glad I am not living at the Bastille anymore and don’t have to go anywhere near the Sorbonne for at least another month. But when I think back at the time I spent in that city and all the changes it has brought me, I feel quite confident that things will turn out right, either way.
And then there is a small thing to be really happy about: J. has asked me to marry him and… I have said YES. It does feel strange in a way. Me the solitary wolf that could never fit anywhere, fitting right beside someone else. But the happiness is – for once – all that counts. And apart from the work issue and the fact that we don’t know where we will live in a years time, or what work we will be doing: the happiness is absolutely complete and it, darn, it feels GOOD.

To the folks reading this (especially Bart): I have tried to contact some of you and it seems harder to tell this on the phone, over skype than writing it here. On the other side, we don’t want to send out cards to announce our luck officially, since people will only think that we’re after some gifts. So I do hope you understand me putting this here. We haven’t got any date yet due to obvious reasons, but once we do, you all are first to know (after the family of course :*.