The London is over blog #8

Monday, May 3, 2010
1:12pm

I got home last night around 9pm. My mom picked me up at LAX - it took a while because there were 3 full flights ahead of ours at customs.  I met her new boyfriend, Barth, but only very briefly. My first impression is that he is very funny and adores my mom, so needless to say I like him very much! He's coming here for dinner tomorrow night (he lives in Long Beach).  I went to bed around 10 and was up from 2am-4am with jet lag. Then I went back to sleep and slept until 8 this morning. Mom and I just got back from swimming at the Y. I weighed myself right before I left (I don't have a scale) for London, and just now. I lost 14 lbs. last week.

I have to say that in England, I find the men better looking and much more gentlemanly! I could get used to that! But I don't know if I could ever live there. I like having space - London is so crowded! I think I would feel a bit stifled there (I would in NYC too). But I will go back. Often, hopefully. It's all very fascinating to me, and now that I'm home, the whole trip feels a bit surreal. If I get published and start rolling in dough, I'd love to have a flat there!

Part of me feels a bit silly that I went and met Matthew Macfadyen at the stage door.  I didn't do it so I could say I met him, I wanted to see him in person and up close and not even to have any sort of interaction with him. He would never remember me, recognize me again, doesn't know me from Adam. I don't really care that he does. He has brought a lot of enjoyment to my life and I love the work that he does - it's at a level I identify with and want to strive for. I gave him the CD and the note (which he may never listen to or read) because if there's a possibility I can return that enjoyment even a little bit, I wanted to try. Professionally, I would love to work with him, but I know I'll probably never get a chance to do that because even though we are in the same lines of work, we run in different circles. I will say though that I have ideas for a screenplay for which he'd be perfect. And I could make it something we could collaborate on, but it's all a pipe-dream.

I am now going into "getting published" mode. My experiences in London gave me a lot of food for thought and I have things I could add to the book, based on my experiences, but the book is already too long and I think adding much would detract from the story that is already there. I think, however, that I can use my experiences to really enhance book 2, because the main couple will spend about 6 weeks there. In the meantime, in regards book 1, I have confirmed my locations and enhanced things a bit.  It also made the trip tax-deductible!

So, back to real life. Summer scheduling for lessons. Prospective student to call back who called me in London. Gotta get this damn broken tooth fixed and some new contact lenses (exciting, eh?)  Hang out with Mom for a bit. And get my book published!

Thanks everybody for reading this blog lately and for all of your generous comments, clicking the little boxes (cool, interesting, whatever, which I think are kinda stupid, but they did get used, didn't they?) both here and on Facebook! It felt like I had fans rooting for me on my trip! LOL