"intimacy"

[Judy2]

i'm in an oddly good mood today. almost happy. 

it's beyond me how my mood keeps swinging from one extreme to the other and right back, but maybe i shouldn't question that and just let myself be happy. :). for God's sake, just this one time. 

[Judy2]

....these past few days, i've finally brought up the courage to book my summer holiday....i'm going to England and Scotland, and i've started looking forward to it immensely.

originally, i had thought that i would go only as far up north as Edinburgh, but then i realised the Highlands are even further north. hadn't booked my flight back anyway, and in an impulsive moment i decided that i should travel as far as Inverness.

scary, and this feels very wrong and impulsive, but i'm also really excited now.

i wrote a paper about a Scottish novel (Sunset Song) a couple of years ago, and now i've had this idea that i could go to Aberdeen, too, and see the villages where the novel is set.