Friends and survivors

I did not feel like bore you, my dear friends with descriptions of my life in recent weeks (well, not exactly living, more like functioning for work...) but since some nice things happened, I decided to make a post about these nice things. We all have times when we do not feel like crawling out of bed (especially when nobody is offering these tens thousands of $$$) especially in face of another working day to finish at 4 am but I hope that we got into grips with our working lives now and life is back to normal again: cups of tea, watching The Hour, reading books and more regular working and bedtime hours. Certainly no travelling (during the weeks of my absence on the blog we went on assignments to Leith AND London and Simon was sent to Ukraine for almost a week) and feverish email and textmessages exchange while hopping in and out of underground amidst recent London riots...

I have even managed to visit a performance during Edinburgh Festival! Sejin very kindly offered to take me to a new Ruby Wax's performance ('Losing It') and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I think only in Britain it is possible to do a comedy show about depression and get it genuinely funny. Thank you Sejin, it was not only a big laugh but also a big eye opener, especially for someone like me, who comes from a culture that treates depression as something one can just shake off within several days and if you are not able to do that you are just being silly. More about Ruby and her preformance here.

Which leads me to another dear friend Monica who is now visiting from Germany! Last time we saw each other when she very kindly agreed to be my vitness at my Oxford nuptials. Since then lots of dramatic things has happened in her life so when I have finally met her at the Edinburgh airport I gave her a big, well deserved hug for survivors. It is good to see her healthy again, bubbling with her usual sense of humour and to have again these long discussions about the meaning of life, the Universe and everything. She will be back with us again in couple of weeks after her horseriding holidays in the north of Scotland.

Both ladies presented me with some lovely and usefull gifts - the body weight monitor is from Sejin (ok, now I happy as I have cut out the fluffy, British bread and I am consuming Vasa aka Ryvita here instead which made a substantial difference in the size of my bum and waist) and the sleeping mask is from Monica and is a bliss during light summer nights in Scotland when it gets dark about 10 pm and light at 3 am again. When all this melatoning was suppose to be produced by my exhausted body? Last two nights contained the deepest sleep I have ever had in our southfacing flat! Thank you!