Lexical Gap No. 21: Chengyu
A month of travel
a month of travel: northern virginia, kentucky, shanghai, seoul
What time is it? What day of the week is it? I think it's near the end of the month, which means it's probably time to send out my newsletter, but who even knows? I've spent more days on the road than at home in the month of October, so my sense of time and place is shaky at best. I've traveled every weekend; first, to Northern Virginia for the Fall for the Book Festival, then to Bowling Green, Kentucky for YAS Book Con. Thanks to everyone who came!
(Also, I'm not dead! It's only that I am in a country where the government has censored all forms of social media—Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et al—in addition to Google. It's like that ancient koan: If an author travels and has no way to document it on social media, have they really traveled at all?)
As of this typing, I am sitting in a hotel lounge in Shanghai, where I've spent the past five days (the city, not the hotel lounge). Tomorrow I am off to Seo…