Let’s see: what to write
about today. The weather? Banal. My classes? My students? Passé. What little
trinket or treat I’ve indulged myself in or with? Not even. Food? Commonplace.
My health? Oh, no! NOT another entry about the state of my health! Although
recently I’ve been feeling really good.
Truth is, not much is
happening around here. Students have settled into the long stretch between
winter break and summer, where no holiday is long enough to permit travel home.
Teachers are bearing down, nosing that old grindstone. So ‘vanilla’ is this
period that there is really nothing timely to write about. I’ve not observed
anything remarkable, done anything noteworthy. No one is exuberant or plunged
into the gallows of darkness. Even the weather is walking a careful middle
line: just enough rain, just enough sunshine, just enough of a temperature
hike.
Yesterday I noted, with
mild surprise that dusk did not come till after 7PM and night fell around 8:30.
See how, within the steady march of time, life goes on complacently?
Don’t get me wrong: I
have entries planned, and even sandbagged one or two, but they are time
relevant. Like the one for Mother’s Day. Can’t really post that one so far
ahead, can I?
I recall from years past,
in this blog, occasionally suffering the same phenomenon. To wit that entry
titled A Fallow Period from December 2012. I don’t want to write just for the
sake of posting.
So now we wait. Through a
new strain of bird flu and through the latest earthquake, we wait. KFC sales
drop and camping gear sales grow. With camping a relatively new phenomenon in
China, the people here are enjoying having a tent to sleep in on the sidewalk,
instead of just throwing a mat down. Aftershocks and fears of burial in
concrete assail them. They are not ready to chance a night in their apartments
yet. I can understand that.
We expats are reeling
from the happenings in Boston and around the world. We wait. Soon there will be
something to publish. Stay tuned!
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