I did it!

Well, having thought about it for aaaaaaagggggeeeeeeessssss - I hand delivered my application on Monday.
It's there, it's in. All the bits are filled in and I even had a brainwave in asking my friend Malka to write the reference for me.
I was so worried that I couldn't fill my application in properly, having learned just how much the English like their t's crossed and their i's dotted. In Iceland you can just sort of talk people round to your way - the form isn't the most important thing.
There are some benefits to being from a small country, but now I'm paranoid I've filled the form in properly every time I have to do something - so much so that I obsess about it a little.

Now it's just a question of waiting for the call to come and interview and then we'll see if it will be plan A or plan B.
Plan B isn't a bad one to be honest and I guess in some ways that makes me so ambivalent / not so COMMITTED to plan A.

In other news, we went to Iceland for the holidays and had the most dreadful trip. The flight out was delayed for 2 hrs and then they served apples in bags for the refreshment. Then when I legged it to the galley to wait out the 'fumes' until it was safe for me to return they kept telling me off for not having told them in advance that apples would be an issue for me. I was so angry about this - out of dozens, maybe hundreds of flights I've taken in my life, they've only served apple / fruit bags twice and that was the second time. They seemed to feel that I should just tell people willy-nilly about my allergies on the off chance that it might become an issue.

Then on Christmas Eve around nine, I started having this little tickle in my throat that then by the following day had turned into a full blown flu (and not the suspected / feared pneumonia) requiring antibiotics and drugs like you dream about. I'm still coughing and spluttering but the damned thing is finally on the run and although I won't be running anywhere for a week or so more (who cares, I've lost weight over Christmas anyway) so by the time it'll be a little bit more daylight here, Sam and I will be able to go back out for our runs.

Despite the dreadful time we had in Iceland it was great to get away from work and really getting into that headspace of 'I can leave this job and I can go to school' and it was kind of important for me to feel that. While it won't be easy to suddenly be on one income and to have our standard of living drop somewhat - but it's either going to happen now or it's not going to happen. And putting it in those terms is kind of black and white, do or die, kind of thing.

Oh, and take a look at some of Malka's pictures:

http://www.lomography.com/homesDeLuxe/profile.php?cid=831052

Happy New Year everyone!

Oh and my dad is coming to visit next weekend - yippee