The weekend is an hour away and it couldn’t feel further!!! I am tired, I have a big weekend on, so hopefully Surf won’t call up tonight and say “I have bailed on the party (we were both supposed to be at) come over and play!”

Mr Africa is still away, and to be a little bit honest I think his absence has been responsible for my increasing inability to concentrate on the job at hand… I have had the single least productive 3 days this term!!! Gah… Of course, that’s combined with a list of tasks I find singularly uninspiring… which isn’t helpful… Please keep it on the quiet that the private contracts are feeling a lot more interesting these days than the real job stuff…

The weekend promises an engagement party … I am so hopeless at being sociable. Less so in the last year than ever before but I wonder sometimes if I am now more true to myself than in the past. I have bailed on Tez’s 30th this evening because a) his new girlfriend will be there b) too many strangers, c) it’s another opportunity I don’t want to miss to work on the private jobs.

No wonder I’m a tragic spinster… I don’t go out!!!

Ian asked yesterday when I was going to Hawaii… I leave on the 2nd of September and return to Sydney on September the 11th… Yikes…

It is all happening so soon… Now that I have the cash in my hot little hand I can start getting a teensy bit excited!!!

Well, will you look at that… some pictures of Hawaii.

Wonder why they are there?

It’s incredible to me that this trip has come up so soon… I haven’t even got time to sit down and get excited about it. My first thought is anxiety – it’s been soo long since I travelled that I’ve fogotten how to be a new person in a new place… the lure of the familiar is stronger these days (except where Africa is concerned…*winks*).

But I’m going to do it anyway… just in case you thought I might be wimping out…

I wrote to Crabman today. A simple note of congratulation marking the completion of the big thing we recorded in May.

It brough the ‘Year from Hell’ full circle. A new sound a new vision for the future, the release of gifts that had been so stifled for so long. As I listen to it (blessed to be one of the 1st of the plebs to have a pre-release copy) I am so happy to hear the door closing on the past and a new future coming in.

Crabman’s reply was simple … “thanks so much bud… a little healing maybe?”

*Niagra Falls*

That’s exactly what it is. A little healing.

I’m so grateful.