Over the last couple months, you may have noticed the gaping hole in your life left by the absence of our blogging efforts. MJ and I had the best intentions of making an instructional video on the fine art of making paper airplanes, but that ended up only happening in a dream. However, in my dream, you all enjoyed the video a lot and it was a reasonable length! You’re welcome!
For the last few months, MJ and I have been confronting a new challenge in our married life: separation. Since the end of the summer, I’ve been managing to act as acting manager at the famed recycling plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. While most laymen only know the Baton Rouge recycling plant from the famous scene in Scarface, us industry insiders know the place as one of only three plants in the world capable of recycling #7 plastic jugs. I’d been keeping an eye on their manager for a while, and when she started getting especially pregnant in August, I was apparently the only person in the whole country who called their office and inquired as to who would act as manager during her maternity leave.
Though, of course, this is an exciting step in my career, the time apart from home and MJ has been extremely difficult. All sorts of things became issues that I’d never even considered before. When do we find the time to talk? How do I physically prevent her from having sex with other people? How do I make sure she’s using the correct shampoo? Seriously, what if she’s using my shampoo? Or having sex with other guys and then they use my shampoo? That stuff is $4.75 a bottle, for Christ’s sake.
Skype has helped a lot. For those of you who don’t know what Skype is, it’s pretty much impossible to explain. That is, unless you’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which case I can tell you it’s a lot like that robot that runs everyone’s lives and then goes crazy and kills people.
Yeah, it’s like that.
We’ve also sent a lot of paper airplanes back and forth, and sometimes I tie a ribbon to the train and I know that when the train passes by MJ’s house in Walla Walla she’ll see the ribbon and remember not to use my shampoo.
All in all, it’s been a very trying time and I’m very much looking forward to being back in WA! Who knows, maybe we’ll even make a video about paper airplanes. Although, I wouldn’t hold your breath. If, theoretically, we even made such footage, it would have to sit around on MJ’s computer for at least two whole months and still it would not have been edited, which is a perfectly reasonable timeline for such a thing.
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