Sacre bleu, I've much to do

I've been remiss with the blogging, but life has been unusually stressful lately, so sometimes something's got to give, whether you want it to or not...

Trying to get things in order for France, which means a trip to the consulate and finding longterm housing there (France, not the consulate), as well as finding out whether or not the book I want to work on while I'm there necessitates a certain type of visa, which will then require a second trip to the consulate, and time is suddenly at a premium, now that I need it. Before the trip to France came up, all kinds of time. Days in a row with no work and nothing going on. Now that I really need a day or two to just handle France stuff, I can't get a day off to save my life. I was supposed to have yesterday off, and then at 11am (when I'd gone to bed at 4), the phone rings with the request I come in and work on a rush job. I'm happy for the income, but I have to get this consulate stuff done ASAP, so it's a little frustrating.

I'm really looking forward to my book project, which is a coffee table book of photographs of a certain part of Paris. Paris is sort of my Eden, just a wonderful, magical place, both jangling metropolitan and quiet retreat. There are pockets of Paris that are so serene and peaceful I could spend all day there and never want to leave - and in fact, did. I just fell in love with one of those places and spent 5 or 6 days there in 2003, taking digital photographs. If my digicam had a high enough resolution (say, 9 megapixels), that would be good enough, but it only has 3.5, so I have to go back with my 35mm to do the work for the book. Which I don't mind, and if I have 3 months to do nothing but work on it there, that will be awesome. I'm a little leery of my photographic skill, though, so we'll see. I don't always get the picture quite focussed right. With a digicam, you can tell that immediately. With film, not so much. So cross your fingers for me, please. :)

I'm really excited to go, but it just doesn't seem real yet. And I'm not sure it will until I'm actually at the airport, waiting to board the plane, at which point I will be far too freaked out and nervous to enjoy it, on accounta a) I hate flying, b) I'm horribly afraid of flying, and c) that's a scary thing, to head off to live in a foreign country for 6 months. What if something goes hideously wrong, either there, or here, while I'm there? Wow. Now I'm freaking out. Let's not go there.

Hey, Lizzy Wishes is having a sale to benefit people who suffer from eating disorders. Get a Know Your Beauty or British Bankers tee by Eve's Rib and benefit the National Eating Disorders Association - you NEDA one of these tees! (Okay, I know, that was bad, but sometimes a bad joke's just gotta be made!)

There. That's better. :)

Jenie