I'm in Cleveland now, and fighting my jetlag. I think that I've got the job thing covered. I was contacted by a new automotive website that wants to put me in charge of their news content, so assuming that the pay is something that I can live off of, then I'm set there. Rather more complicated is finding a place to live. I'm staying with my sister at the moment, and although she and I are close, I'd really like to have my own space. The problem is that I'm not really keen on staying in Cleveland for too long, so I'm trying to avoid signing a lease, and therein lies the difficulty in finding a place to live.

Other than that, it's great to be back. I don't wish to badmouth where I was before, because I have absolutely no regrets about my decision to move there, but it has been an enormous relief to be back in this country. I even have plans to go see a Pogues cover band on the 23rd, which is excellent because I'm dying to see some live music. All that's left is to get my life in order, but there's nothing like enduring several years of abject poverty while simultaneously trying to deal with the stresses of life in the Middle East to give you the feeling that anything after that will be easy.