takes 30 days to get into a habit, right?
Aug. 25th, 2012 05:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aruanIt may not look it, but I'm trying to find my way back to fandom, which has become a lot of work these days. I've been noodling around with Adobe Premiere, wading into Tumblr and generally being the same emotionally unstable wreck as the rest of Sherlock fandom. As for my own thoughts, I'm drowning in half-written entries and a lot of other half-formed musings that haven't made it onto paper.
But! I come with glad tidings - my stint in the Arabian sandbox is coming to a spectacular end, with the husband officially an employee of the mayor of New York (it's so much less glamorous than it sounds, but all true!) as of yesterday. This development is both a dream come true and the making of a truly epic existential crisis for me, but more on that later. Because in the interest of getting back into the habit of writing something other than SEO-friendly news copy, I'm starting a 30-day countdown (we had to give one month's notice) with a daily photo of our lives since arriving in Abu Dhabi almost five years ago. So you can all experience what you haven't been missing out on. Yay?
Day 1: Abu Dhabi International Airport's international terminal, January 2008.
Interesting bits of architecture can be found all over the city. Unlike Dubai, which grew incredibly fast and favored tall, shiny and modern buildings, Abu Dhabi's slower trajectory means the city is dotted with every different kind of architectural fad from the '50s onward. I've always loved this mosaic. And for a couple of tired Americans with little idea of what to expect on the other side of the world, walking off the plane to see that Christmas tree in the lower right-hand corner was reassuring.
But! I come with glad tidings - my stint in the Arabian sandbox is coming to a spectacular end, with the husband officially an employee of the mayor of New York (it's so much less glamorous than it sounds, but all true!) as of yesterday. This development is both a dream come true and the making of a truly epic existential crisis for me, but more on that later. Because in the interest of getting back into the habit of writing something other than SEO-friendly news copy, I'm starting a 30-day countdown (we had to give one month's notice) with a daily photo of our lives since arriving in Abu Dhabi almost five years ago. So you can all experience what you haven't been missing out on. Yay?
Day 1: Abu Dhabi International Airport's international terminal, January 2008.
Interesting bits of architecture can be found all over the city. Unlike Dubai, which grew incredibly fast and favored tall, shiny and modern buildings, Abu Dhabi's slower trajectory means the city is dotted with every different kind of architectural fad from the '50s onward. I've always loved this mosaic. And for a couple of tired Americans with little idea of what to expect on the other side of the world, walking off the plane to see that Christmas tree in the lower right-hand corner was reassuring.
