When you read this, I'll be in Norway, and it will have taken me twice as long to get from my apartment to Stanstead airport than it did to actually fly from London to Oslo, and this will have been exhausting and ridiculous and entirely worth it. The air as I step out the plane will smell cold, and cleaner, and my long-suffering, beautiful friend will catch my eye; from that point on I will forget that I have legs or arms or anything at all, and we will let the city and the green-soaked landscapes fill our comfortable silences.
(The quote below is for you.)
ON THE JOURNAL THIS PAST WEEK (OR TWO):
Directions to older words, and a snippet of something. The image below isn't on the journal, but so many of you don't have Instagram and I post odd things like this with their Stories feature; occasionally I get sad that they are so temporary, and I'm thinking of putting a few up on the journal more regularly—your thoughts on this matter would be most welcome.
WORK-RELATED NEWS:
I'm in the midst of creating a spread of illustrations for a Japanese magazine, which will be published in their December issue, and I'll be able to show you these nearer the time (it involves untranslatable words). It's hard to think about the last month of the year when so much is going to happen in between, but I do admire their efficiency.
At some point rather soon I will need to throw myself at break-neck speed into the Brazilian Portuguese translation of my first book.
Research and thinking around and into my next book continues with a sort of wild abandon that seems strangely normal, and when the announcement of the deal is published (in the places where book deals are published), I will shout about it to you too.
THIS WEEK I FELL IN LOVE WITH:
Really everything director, animator, and illustrator Hannah Jacobs has ever done, ever. I didn't even fall in love this week if I'm honest, it's been going on for a while.
The end.
It was quite long this time around, huh. I suppose that is what happens when you're trying to postpone having to pack for as long as possible, and when your list of procrastination possibilities includes things such as 'buying a single avocado' and 'research all swimming pools within a 10 mile radius' and 'return library books but forget one of them so that you have to go back twice'.
Farewell, see you next sometime.
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