I'll be missing you... hopefully...

It's funny, in this day and age, how it is hard, in some ways, to miss people. To be sure, it is also very easy to think one has a relationship with people because of technology: I read their facebook status, I "like" a few things they post, and that is construed as maintaining a relationship. This is, of course, not true; relationships do need face time when possible and nurturing to work. However, for those who are far and away, technology has been a godsend in keeping relationships intact, though it may not be under the most ideal situations. I am so very thankful of being able to regularly chat in real-time with friends as far flung as China and the UK, when a generation or two ago this would have been unthinkable.
I've got another 106 days to go of a total of 108. The last two days have been fine, in that Skype chat and video-chat work well, and time zones are congruent. It's going to be hard to say when the time zones start shifting like crazy, on both our parts, and lacking the lazy time to sit around at the computer, rather than running around, looking at things, writing reports, etc. It's been hard to miss someone that you're talking to for a few hours everyday.
I think it will come, however, and I don't look forward to it. The ache that sits like a nugget in your soul, the dissatisfaction of looking at photos and blurry video images, the long anticipation before reunion again - not fun.
Well, here's to another 106 days....

seriously, I'm not dead

However, it has been ages since I've updated, and now, since it's early Sunday morning, I don't exactly have a lot of time to muse before jetting off to church.
In brief, though, this week has been bittersweet. I forget what that older movie is called, I think Four Weddings and a Funeral... well, it's been kind of close to that. The juxtaposition of death and new life all intermingling and clashing together sometimes gets a bit joltingly weird...