It's hard to believe that I've been back here for 10 weeks, and away from NZ for almost 3 months. Crazy. SO much has happened in that time, it feels like I've shed so many skins, and there are still probably a couple more to be sloughed off! Hehe makes me sound quite reptilian, doesn't it.
I am handing up 5/8 chapters - complete - next week, and the whole thing has been a bit exhilarating and terrifying. One because it almost feels like I can finish this, and I occasionally wondered if I really could do it. And two, because I know I still have so much work ahead of me, I don't want to get too excited and take my eye off the prize at the end.
I am getting excited about returning to NZ, even though I know the weather will not be half as nice as it has been here. I am looking forward to getting Harry out of the cattery and finding a cool pad for us to live in the city and kicking tyres while looking for a new car. But again I don't want to get too distracted and lose momentum right before the end.
At this stage I am still aiming to be back before Easter, which is scary because really - that is only 3 weeks away. Need to start thinking of booking flights and packing up my life here, and also my plan of attack when I get back. Realistically, despite all good intentions, I don't look like printing and handing in before I leave, but if I can at least get the writing - and most essentially the thinking - out of the way, the formatting and printing I hope can be done from the other side of the Tasman.
I know I have said it before, but I think by the end of next week it will all start to fall into place. :)
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