restless.
restless.
restless.

i’m working lazily and leisurely on proposals, which is taking far longer than necessary and reminds me of college behavior.

i can’t help it!

yesterday we drove to an hours away village in a songthaew on terrible roads and it was beautiful. Even today i am still unsure what it was exactly that we were celebrating, but that is okay. i made some videos of the music and dancing and walking and will post them. i love the shan gong. i love the joy in religious celebration here as well. and the men passing around bottles of whiskey and pulling glasses out of pockets. the drive home was incredible. being so high up in the mountains! gosh. there were more stars than sky. i was flabbergasted. i felt like it was the first time i ever realized that there are so many stars.

and now i’m home and restless because i leave so soon and there is still so much to do.

yesterday, one of the head guys (again, this is as far as i got with details) invited me to go with him monday to an orphanage. i hope he was genuine and need to give him a ring. he asked if i would mind scooping out ice cream for the kids. that would be grand!

tying up loose ends. sending things home. buying a pair of sweet green shoes that the soldiers i’ve met wear because they are canvas and awesome. accepting my beach bod is a toddler belly bod (what can you expect? 6-8 bowls of rice a day? rice belly!). forgetting that people are celebrating christmas at home because i leave the day after so all the facebook countdowns, in my eyes, are a day short. finishing revisions that would be done faster if i stopped reading dinosaur comics.