Tips from experience
Tom and i have been together for three years now. It hasn't been easy but it hasn't been too difficult. You know how it is with love, right?

Love can be exotic. Love can be funny. Love can go to work with you. It can spark when you're in the middle of a boring meal or humming on a lift.

Love can take you away from your everyday life, as long as you can go back to it without sinking into a shock.

It can even make the rest of the world become a huge blur, but please make sure you know how to get back to your friends when ordinary life returns to your door.

Getting used to it all
The moving lasted a whole day and it's still not finished. The hardest physical part is over now. But i don't know how to organize my clothes. I haven't figured out if there are other phone switches in the rooms. I'm not sure about my mum's VCR.

It's my mother's house. It's full of her stuff and ours just looks like a passer-by, a guest. Last night i felt i was living a borrowed life. Today, at the newspaper, i knew my way around things a lot better, which was funnily reassuring. I hope this feeling will soon pass.

PS: Joy to the world, Hayley is here at last!

Talking to the Friday Five

1. Would you say that you're good at keeping in touch with people?
Yes, i probably would. At least with the people who use the Internet. The others sometimes just disappears. Isn't that sad?

2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why?
Of course, it depends on the person. I like e-mail for almost everything, but listening to the person or actually seeing him/her... I'd like to see John Cusack rather than getting snail mail from him. Not that i would snob a nice letter!

3. Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it?
Mess, baby, mess with me. I don't talk to that many people through it, but those 3 or 4 friends i use it with, i use it all the time.

4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away?
Most of my friends live in Madrid, except Martin who is far out in Québec and who i'm going to kill if i don't hear from him soon, LovelyV who is Miami (hang on in there, sweets, you'll make the European jump before you can say 'yankee') and Lynch, happy and cool as ever in Denver.

5. Are you an "out of sight, out of mind" person, or do you believe that "distance makes the heart grow fonder"?
Again, it all depends on the relationship. I tend to believe that keeping in touch when you're far away helps communication and also establishes new kind of bonds between the people.