Vanishing Voices

I've been enjoying the holidays with the family. I've been staying home, reading, writing, and spending time with the family. It's been wonderful. I wouldn't see much of the boys, fixated as they are on World of Warcraft, but I contrived to have Santa bring a new Wii game and I've been using that as an excuse to hang out with them. I won't play World of Warcraft, even though I recognize I would probaby like it -- I worry that I would get sucked in as thoroughly as they have. I spend enough time playing StarCraft as it is.

I've been writing a haibun in Esperanto. I've been interested in Haibun for a long time and have thought of several that I should probably write. This one seemed like an obvious one to write and I've really enjoyed writing it. I'm still exploring the medium.

It's typical that after the stress of the last couple of weeks in the semester, I've come down with a cold. My throat is sore and I'm coughing. At least it doesn't appear to be flu.