There are still several posts' worth of thoughts about the trip, but between the rigors of the trip and the advent of my period, I'm too tired to record one today. My body seldom reacts well to sustained stress or disruptions of its customary routines, and right now, my biorhythms are far out of whack. Despite getting ten hours' sleep a night since my return to my own bed, I'm still gummy-eyed and logy during the day and gripped by a dreadful lassitude. Some of this can be attributed to the stifling heat--extreme heat makes me ill, and it's been broiling in the nineties for days now--but I'm just flat worn out. There are only so many inaccessible toilets, long car rides, and lumpy motel beds my body can take, it seems. Oh, for sixteen, when I could drink Mountain Dew and eat red licorice whips and stay up for thirty hours and not feel like rehashed shit for three days afterward.

I have managed to work on Part XVI of Sprache, though it feels a bit strange to be writing it in light of Richard's recent announcement of impending fatherhood. While I'm writing a grand romance of seduction in Berlin, he's schlepping to the store at three in the morning for ice cream and olives and shopping for a baby Bjoern. The latter conjures the highly-edifying image of him in shorts and flip-flops, lazing about in Berlin with a baby Bjoern strapped to his chest and a grizzling newborn tucked snugly inside. He sounds deliriously happy with the course of his life at the moment, and I hope it goes beautifully for them.

I see no reason to abandon the story, however. Fiction and reality can happily coexist as long as the presence of that fiction doesn't harm or threaten reality, and Richard has stated that he doesn't care about the existence of fanfiction. So, while real!Richard is fussing over his nursery in Berlin and mulling baby names, fictional!Richard will go right on falling for his fierce English teacher.
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