I’ve got a couple Bug strips stuck in the pipeline.
Eating apples sometimes helps, I hear.
It’s like this. I haven’t felt very buglike lately. I haven’t felt like being funny or even entertaining.
What have I felt like instead?
I’ve felt like an old guy.
I’ve felt like getting up early and writing in my notebook before breakfast.
I’ve felt like, what’s so bad about solitary confinement?
I’ve felt stuck again, but on a higher level this time. Like, here, the monsters are faster and meaner, but my gun shoots bigger bullets too.
I don’t know.
Lots of things happening at once. I will find time for the Bug soon. I still like him.
My daughter is going to France. She will be gone for what, six months nearly. I was talking to a German guy yesterday who drives around Europe constantly, servicing and selling harps. He recommended I drive Beta’s harp to France, since renting one would end up being prohibitively expensive.
And when I say prohibitively, that’s not a word I say lightly.
Who would have thought?
That little baby.
That little kid, climbing the ladder up the big slide at the playground in Tokyo with dad behind her, scared to death and ready to catch her but acting nonchalant so she wouldn’t be scared.
As recently as one week ago: a girl. Albeit strong shoulders from rowing, and a good punch, but still. And now: a woman looking out of that face.
Now: packing for half a year in France.
Until right now, until this very moment, I thought, right, France. Have a good time. But now I realize, when she comes back, everything will be different.