Brains!

2012 has been a strange year. It's like a big white table cloth that's all scrunched up on one end, it needs some straightening out. I don't even know what that analogy means but it makes sense to me. I think mostly the trouble is that winter here wasn't really winter at all, it was warm in January. Now it's suddenly cooled down and sadly all the flowers and spring blooms that were going to pop out early are totally going to die. It probably won't be a fantastic spring. I wonder if the cicadas will arrive early too?

I've reconnected with many people, some people I never thought I'd ever talk to again. It was also nice to connect with a dear friend and to be reminded of old times. Sometimes things never change. In other circumstances things have changed completely and you lose people you thought you never would.

With RF in India I've been managing the studio by myself. I am still happily amazed that this job comes to naturally and easily to me. It may not be glamorous but I'm good at it. I like that. I have to say though I'm looking forward to my upcoming days off. Although being in the studio is not stressful, I feel like most of my mental effort is spent at work and by the time I get home I don't have much to spare on anything of consequence. I sped through Hunger Games because it was complete shit and now I'm savoring Shantaram's pretty prose. I'm also on the Downton Abbey bandwagon with the rest of the world. But this is the first time I've really thought about what I'm thinking about - so to speak. I miss writing and I guess when I started Shantaram I realized that. I really wish I could find a writing/book club that was worth a darn.