where I'm planning already for my departure. Not the one on Monday, but the one in July, when I leave Korea. The old unwillingness to be completely present, putting things into suitcases for "when I go home" and classing everything by its predicted importance to me in a month, two months, six. A big part of me wants to be moving constantly, but it butts up against another big part of me that just wants to stay put. I know, it's just a lull. But living abroad for a year is hard, and maintaining a rigorous research schedule for a year is even harder. I'm going to take a break from language study during my month away, though, to rest that part of my brain. It's had enough.
Every planet returns
Saturday, January 03, 2009
I'm doing that thing again
where I'm planning already for my departure. Not the one on Monday, but the one in July, when I leave Korea. The old unwillingness to be completely present, putting things into suitcases for "when I go home" and classing everything by its predicted importance to me in a month, two months, six. A big part of me wants to be moving constantly, but it butts up against another big part of me that just wants to stay put. I know, it's just a lull. But living abroad for a year is hard, and maintaining a rigorous research schedule for a year is even harder. I'm going to take a break from language study during my month away, though, to rest that part of my brain. It's had enough.
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July can't come soon enough for me--I miss you! Happy 2009.
I had a really funny dream about you the other night. We were eating dinner together, and ordered the same dessert--club soda mixed with ricotta cheese and raspberry jam, topped with one cube of mozzarella. I ate it all, and you ate all but the mozzarella cube. Afterward, you told me we needed to have a talk about my dairy intake.
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