I thought I was too young for this. A combination of events – a fertility-in-Europe project at work and an ongoing conversation about family structure and childrearing with a friend, not to mention a couple of close friends about to get married and thinking kids – has been rekindling my thoughts of having a child. Won’t be for a while; I’m not ready yet in many respects. But I’m so curious to know what it feels like to be pregnant! It’ll be an adventure.
In other news, the book review I submitted to RCCS, apparently, doesn’t suck. This is wonderful news, as I was nervous about this one: the book’s kind of seminal, and was published a while ago. It took a lot of work to write the review; but then, I’ve no idea how long others spend on writing them, so this may be normal. I’ll let the world know when it’s published.
Being pregant is amazing and devestating and wonderful and painful and joyful and time-consuming, just as parenting is. The wonderful and amazing joy and sense of giving and sharing and building is definitely worth the pain, though I suspect all parents have moments of wishing to just be alone without all this responsibility.
And reviewing non-fiction, in my experience, is immensely time-consuming. At least if the book’s in your field and you know your peers are likely to read your review and judge you by it.
Congratulations on the forthcoming publication, Vika. I’ll look forward to reading it.