Hello World.
Pao's been in Colombia for a week, now. She's having a blast with her friends and family there, as well as a much easier time keeping her food down. (The baby likes Colombian food, apparently.) Toward the end of the month I will go there and join her for a few days, and then we will fly back together. It's been good for both of us; she gets to be back in her natural habitat surrounded by the loved ones she grew up with, and I have some time left to my own devices.
Of course, after a week of this, I'm pretty much ready to have her back. I spent all last weekend sleeping on the bachelor couch at the bachelor pad of a couple bachelor friends, and I had a damn good time. Civ4, comic books, action movies, a hot tub, a rubberband war, very little sleep... Good times. I got a lot of stuff out of my system, to be sure.
I've got outlines of other adventures to plan for the next two weekends before I go to Colombia. I've also given myself a lot of homework to do in WWI history (my chosen scholarly specialization/ultimate nerd-hobby). And yet, it occurred to me today that given the choice between all the possible things I could do with this spare time and simply watching a movie or taking a walk in the park with Pao, being with Pao wins every time. And I KNOW that when my son or daughter comes along, my transformation to full-blown family man will be complete.
Work on The Book of the Wolves is pretty much on hold right now, given the international traveling in this month. I've got another radical writing project to do before the month is over however. I'm going to write two letters to my children: one for when they are 12, and one for when they are 24. The first letter will contain all the advice I want to give them about the teenage years, and the second letter will pretty much just be all about who I am as I turn 24 years old this month. I like the idea that when my children are the age I am now, they'll have a way of hearing from me almost as their peer rather than their father.
In conclusion, Pao has a sexy new haircut.
Cheers!
