Liberated from evil

Back from Amsterdam and it is good to be back. We had a relatively nice time but I don't think I'll be going back there again. No sooner did I get back than a friend from Iceland called and asked me to translate a book into English in 3 days! Although it is a coffe table/cook book kind of thing, I quickly realized that this was way much more work than I originally anticipated so I don't think it can be done. It is strange how things that sound perfectly reasonable in one language becomes gibberish in another, hard work indeed. I may go to Istanbul tomorrow as a friend may have a ticket, but everything is up in the air since the airline is closed on the weekend and no decisions can be made. My apartment if dirty and and I feel very fragmented somehow.