I bet EVERYONE here is happy for you and no one is looking forward to seeing you be disappointed. I've often thought you're quite intuitive, avoiding the word psychic which always makes me think of Psychic Friend's Network (-: Thanks for sharing your excitement, not only about Paris but about the work as well. For me, taking the train might be the very best part. I LOVE trains.
________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 9:10 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Free Man In Paris v1.04 Well, it's beginning to look more like a Done Deal, so I guess I'll start forwarding these musings to others. *Nothing* can be considered an absolutely Done Deal when working with the client in question, but it's looking WAY good, so I'll start posting these cafe rambles as a kind of occult whammy, the way I used to do in New York after interviewing for gigs that weren't certain, but that I wanted to be. I'd leave the interview and celebrate, as if the gig *were* certain; once I even celebrated by going out and buying a new suit to wear to the job, even though it hadn't really been formally offered to me yet. It always worked, so I'll try it again. The project itself, having now talked with the project leader, is exciting, literally the highest-profile, highest-priority project that the client's got going right now, and one on which its entire future business plan to some extent depends. I *like* that in a project; it really helps when you're trying to get something done and run into obstacles -- all you have to do is invoke the name of the project you're working on, and the obstacles magically disappear. But best, it's in Paris. It looks as if I'll rent a small flat there and commute via Eurostar. >From past experience, that's just as fast -- feet in one city center to feet in another -- as flying, and almost as cheap. The bullet train is also far more comfortable, because you can get up and wander around, dine on something more than airline food, and drink good wines in the Bar Car, conversing with your Netbuddies via WiFi. My kinda commute. :-) I'll miss the dogs and the rest of my extended family, of course, but I'll be home on weekends, and fortunately they have no problem taking over my dog-walking duties while I'm gone. To be honest, all of the adult members of the family are already making plans to take regular jaunts to Paris themselves, the idea of having a free pied-à-terre there not being exactly anathema to them, either. So. A new chapter of the novel -- or pulp fiction or comic book...your call -- of my life. Cool. Sacré bleu. And what's fun, even for the people on this forum who wish me less than the best, is that it might not even happen. If it doesn't, you'll get to see me deal with disappointment, and have to keep working from home as usual. Won't THAT be something to look forward to? :-)
