Bebe and the water bowl.

Vinny went to bed before I did, so Bebe went into the bedroom to be with him. She came out a few hours after to ask for water. She does this by making a sound with her empty bowl. I filled the bowl from the living room, and put it down. She's not there. I find her in the bedroom, sitting in front of the water bowl we keep there. "No, no. Fill this one." She's telling me. I find it cute that she wants to stay in the bedroom so much that she's willing to forego a full water bowl to make a point. However, I was most impressed that she thought of 1) finding the awake person, 2) using the living room bowl to communicate her want, and 3) then using body language back in the bedroom to communicate a more specific want. She's clever. I'm also struck by her wanting to be in the bedroom so much. She's usually a one person dog, and will never separate from me. She has a bond with Vin, and will interact with him a lot when I'm in the room, but she very rarely chooses to separate from me under any circumstances. Since I'm so enamored with their bond and with seeing them interact, this development brings me joy.

Classes

Last week I started another Spanish class. It's B.1.4, a continuation on the one I took last fall. If I take B.1.5 in November, I'll move on to Advanced. I look at jobs in South America, or the possibility of representing clients in Spanish for more complex matters, and it seems like just a remote possibility. I have this idea in my head that the moment I am truly free, I'm going to hop on a plane to Chile. As soon as I'm not in a class, not working on a doc review project, and not watching Bebe. It's not that Vin can't watch her, it's just that I don't want to miss any time with her, since I never know when Kelly will take her back for good. Eventually she may tire of deploying to Afghanistan. I think that immersion is pretty much the only way to reach my goal. Until I can get there, though, I might as well master irregular verbs in the subjunctive. I'm also taking a course through MITx in Python. I need to buckle down and get to it. I made it through the first week, but the second I started being at risk of getting even one question wrong, I started to rewatch the last video and stop my progress. As usual, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Assuming I had internet in Santiago, I could keep taking computer classes there. Just fill my head with languages.