家实在是该打扫了。连着两周出差，虽然家里没怎么用，但回家看看，总是觉得很脏。打了一圈电话，所有的家政公司都说小时工都已经回家了，也是，谁晚上七点多等我这点活啊。站在洗手间里，发了半天愣，犹豫自己打扫，还是再忍两天。最后还是放弃了流汗。

才意识到，我这么长时间没有写博客了，而且更久没有写过一篇好的。好像最近有点忙，但又好像没干什么。以前那么喜欢在外面跑的我（作记者的时候，有一次老板奖励性的让我挑一个报道方向，我想了想，申请了一个新的方向－－regional，因为可以开着车几个小时在路上去边远的地方采访，欣赏路边的田园景色，认识淳朴的rural America）。现在也很喜欢在出差的时候认识新的人、接触新鲜的事物，但是总是下意识的用批判的眼光去衡量这些城市，总在想，北京也很多不满意的地方，但我宁可住北京。

也许是因为和别的城市的对比，也许是别的原因，我渐渐习惯了北京。I think I’m warming up to this city. Every time when I was flying back to Beijing after a business trip, I felt like I was going home, to my own nest, that is. Last week, when the plane was landing in Beijing, for a moment it felt like I was landing in the U.S. – not because the ground looks similar, but because of the anticipation after a long journey that soon I would be back in my own place, taking a shower and relaxing.

Today, coming home to Beijing was even somewhat exciting – because of the Olympics. I was never crazy about all the preparation, all the sacrifices the people in Beijing had to go through for the Olympics – the extra, extra security checks everywhere, the canceled wet markets and furniture deliveries, the endless time- and money-consuming torch relays, the over-played songs such as “we are ready” (Hearing the song always makes me feel we are a nation with a big inferiority complex).

But today, with the opening ceremony only two days away, I’m looking forward to it. It just feels like a final product is coming out after years’ of work and anticipating, regardless of the controversies and the negativity from time to time. Now, it’s more like -- a pregnant mother is finally going to deliver her baby. So, I want to say, best wishes to the Beijing Olympics.