The girl gets around

We've been traveling a lot lately. This certainly has positives and negatives (for example, you realize how humid this place of residence really is), but overall it's been quite lovely. The point of all this is that recently I was on a trip with someone who knows about the list project, so of course he eventually asked me about it.

Most of his questions were the typical ones (where are you at generally, where are you at this year, any good ones recently, how are you tracking for completion, etc.), but since he's the kind of person who can think of about a million questions on any topic at a moment's notice, he had some more interesting questions. For example, we chatted some about how this project has changed my perspective on literature generally, how my tastes have evolved, what my main takeaways have been, etc.

We also had a fairly interesting conversation about the kind of books that just absolutely grip you to the point where you hardly can do anything else till you finish it. Books that excite and consume you all at the same time. We could not come up with a good term for this experience, though.

Somehow, and I'm not really sure how, we managed to segue from that perfectly safe topic of conversation to discussing my feelings about having babies. And we're not talking in the abstract, are you a zero population growth kind of girl sense, we're talking how do I personally feel about whether I want to have children/be a mother. Like I said, I don't know how this happened.