lazy sunday
it's grayish outside; wintry. we're holed up with a pot of soup making on the stove and wrapped in our pajamas because there's no heat yet, and the workmen have taken an entire wall off of the hallway. have i mentioned that we wake up every morning bar sunday at 7.30 am to the sound of jackhammers? it's extremely relaxing.
but the soup, chickeny and seaweedy and full of all the goodness homemade broth is full of, is warding off the colds which inevitably arrive with the change of season.
tuesday i fly to london, 5.30 am to spend the hours waiting for the czech embassy to accept my visa and finally be allowed to stay here, before leaving to arrive back in prague at midnight. it's ironic, because we're talking about the next step already. after two years, i've got the kind of visa i can easily renew, and the kind of job they'd prefer i stay at, and all i want to do is move on. we're talking about argentina. i miss cooking, and i still want to open that restaurant. kt can teach english in south america as easily as she can here, and if i enter into a cooking program, i can kill two birds with one stone; getting an education in management (which is my weak point in the kitchen) and do it in spanish which will require the language. i know it's possible to get to a level in something where it's functional, useful, but i think it will help to have an endpoint, a tangible goal to force the process.
but the soup, chickeny and seaweedy and full of all the goodness homemade broth is full of, is warding off the colds which inevitably arrive with the change of season.
tuesday i fly to london, 5.30 am to spend the hours waiting for the czech embassy to accept my visa and finally be allowed to stay here, before leaving to arrive back in prague at midnight. it's ironic, because we're talking about the next step already. after two years, i've got the kind of visa i can easily renew, and the kind of job they'd prefer i stay at, and all i want to do is move on. we're talking about argentina. i miss cooking, and i still want to open that restaurant. kt can teach english in south america as easily as she can here, and if i enter into a cooking program, i can kill two birds with one stone; getting an education in management (which is my weak point in the kitchen) and do it in spanish which will require the language. i know it's possible to get to a level in something where it's functional, useful, but i think it will help to have an endpoint, a tangible goal to force the process.