As I write this my wife, Somjit, is on the runway in Taipei, about to take off on her last leg of the journey to San Francisco, and leave Asia for a good long while. She's handling it all a lot better than I am.
I too had a busy day. Preparing my high school math students for their final exams this week, writing one of those exams, a trip to the dentist to continue the work on a crown (cracked a tooth on a small stone in the rice) - a numb mouth and memories of high-speed drills, and my usual evening classes.
I've got a pad thai gai waiting for me downstairs in a plastic bag - 20 baht. Dogs bark now and then in the night, every ten minutes or so a Honda Dream buzzes down the soi, the fan is on, I'm barefoot, the internet is up, and I am exactly where I like to be. And in a handful of days I will be leaving this fantastic spot.
I woke up at 4am this morning. Brain spinning. Thunder, lightening flashes, and finally pouring rain at 5am. Nature and me were on the same page. Gump scratched on the door, scared from the noise. I let her in and she slept. I didn't. Too much noise in my head.
I too had a busy day. Preparing my high school math students for their final exams this week, writing one of those exams, a trip to the dentist to continue the work on a crown (cracked a tooth on a small stone in the rice) - a numb mouth and memories of high-speed drills, and my usual evening classes.
I've got a pad thai gai waiting for me downstairs in a plastic bag - 20 baht. Dogs bark now and then in the night, every ten minutes or so a Honda Dream buzzes down the soi, the fan is on, I'm barefoot, the internet is up, and I am exactly where I like to be. And in a handful of days I will be leaving this fantastic spot.
I woke up at 4am this morning. Brain spinning. Thunder, lightening flashes, and finally pouring rain at 5am. Nature and me were on the same page. Gump scratched on the door, scared from the noise. I let her in and she slept. I didn't. Too much noise in my head.
