June 14th, that’s the date of my last post on this blog, since then a lot of things have changed.   Life really couldn’t have gone any better and anything I’d post on the blog would have sounded like simple bragging so I decided to not post anything, I was just having too much fun to spend any time in front of a computer.

On the job front I was pretty busy traveling all around the world and now being comfortable enough in my role that I could actually enjoy the travel made a big difference.  We are going through some changes and according to a personality test I recently took I thrive on change so I can’t complain.  Sure there are details here and there that could be a lot better but I get to work in a small group with very very smart people.  Being able to depend on your co-workers makes work a lot easier.

I was also accepted by a pretty good school, this was a goal of mine for a while and I was pretty excited when I archived it.  I am a pretty competitive person and competing against a lot of smart people is fun.  You never know what they are going to come up with.  The classes for the first year are already picked for you so that makes it a bit easier to concentrate on simply accomplishing the tasks we have in the class.  BTW the program has a blog and they were looking for new contributors when I showed them this blog as an example of my blog worthiness they decided to pass, that alone should tell you how picky they are, after all this is an amazing blog

Finally on the family front, little Kian was born about 3 weeks ago.  People say becoming a parent is a life changing event and I disagree.  Any big change is a life changing event, a new job, moving to a new location, getting married… Becoming a parent is similar, right now the baby just eats, burps, farts and poops.  If you are not careful he will also pee on you.  He wakes up twice every night for a 3am and 6am feeding.  So you take that into account and deal with it, not having a full night of sleep means you have this buzzing sound in the back of your skull all day long but coffee seems to fix it.

Work, school and life they all take time and so I have cut things off, I don’t read/post on the expat taiwan forum anymore, I don’t read as many blogs, I’ve given up finishing some books, I haven’t watched the first half of the last episode of Lost or the new episode of entourage.  I did however finish my work project, my econ homework and made sure to hold the baby as much as I can.  I’ve had a few classmates comment that my life must be hell with a ton of deadlines and maybe I am just not good at recognizing pressure until I can’t beare it anymore but honestly it’s not that bad.  Anyone who has spent time outside of US/Europe knows how hard life can be in a third world country, having to get up at the crack of dawn and spending all day long on a farm for a few dollars, now that’s hard work.