2009

Happy New Year! If you’re thinking it has been an unacceptably long period of time since my last post, well, then, fair enough. In my defence, however, I have a) been abroad in Australia, thereby completing the circle on my quest to use all three of my passports in a single year (shh….don’t tell the INS) and b) managed to contract The Never-Ending Virus, which has manifested itself in three colds, a horrific two-week long sore throat, a sinus infection and conjunctivitis over the course of a month and a half.

Even now, I sit here at my desk with a new sore throat/headache combo. This is after having taken a round of oral and eye-drop-administered antibiotics last week and countless packages of sinus/decongestant/cold medicine over two weeks. I have slept and slept. I’ve eaten well. I’ve cut back on the booze. WHAT DOES IT WANT FROM ME??? If anyone has any suggestions about what to feed the new-to-london beast that resides in my head, please let me know. I’m at my wit’s end.

Anyway, apart from the plague, I had a delightful holiday season. After a crazy 2008, full of many changes and adjustments, I’m looking forward to a slightly calmer 2009, (though if the economy has anything to do with it, we all might be in for a slightly more interesting year than we’d hoped).

Here are my goals for 2009 (in no particular order):

1. Write a novel
2. Get in shape
3. Read more books
4. Sleep more
5. Travel
6. See my friends and family as much as humanly possible
7. Establish a less transient, more home-like presence in London
8. Stop The Virus from killing me in my sleep
9. Write frequent and entertaining blog posts

I’ll get started on #9 soon, I promise. Um, just not today. More soon. Happy 2009!