Well no, I’m not actually going anywhere on vacation. But as you’ve probably noticed, output on the blog has been very slow of late. In short, I am taking a vacation from writing here and doing the tourism thing and the whole nine yards.

Quite frankly, I am burned out on Romanians and the way they do things here. I sent my book to the country’s largest book chain and I know the book buying agent has it on her desk but it’s been sitting there for a month without any response. I did a television interview two weeks ago and the guy promised me to cut a DVD of it so I could post it online. Did he do it? Well of course not.

And so on and so forth and I’ve had enough. So I’ve gone back to working for some Americans, who at least do what they say they will do and understand the concept of making money. And it means I’m now working some 60 hours or more per week and I’m utterly exhausted. It’s all done via computers so at the end of the day when my eyes are bleary the last thing I want to do is stay online some more and write some jibber jabber about Romania.

Which is a shame, really as I’ve got all kinds of ideas and outlines for articles and a whole slew of projects I want to get working on but it is what it is. Money takes precedence and at the moment I haven’t even had a chance to go to the pool this summer yet so I don’t really have too many spare moments for the blog or taking photos or all the other stuff I want to do.

I hate to interrupt anything because often it’s hard to get it going again but it will just have to wait a while I’m afraid. I’ve got to take care of myself first and so far not a single flipping Romanian has shown any initiative whatsoever, so what can I do? I’m one person working by myself here.

I still live here and so I’m sure I’ll return to writing about it soon. I used to really like it and I had some fun but for now it’s time to make the money and then we’ll see what can be done. If you really “need” to get in contact with me, email is probably best, but I sure won’t be doing any more interviews any time soon with anyone. Everyone wants a piece of me but doesn’t have the courtesy to give me a copy so I could share it with all of you. And God forbid anyone ever responds to an email. Oh well.

Thanks for understanding and I hope your summer is going better than mine is!