baby talk

apparently i've reached the stage in life where everyone is having babies. i wasn't really informed that i had passed the stage where everyone is getting married, probably because i just got married, and i still have a few weddings on my schedule (namely, jason's). as fun is it is to get emails from friends, telling us about their baby/pregnant/ultrasound status, lines like this always make me uncomfortable: "We were able to find out the sex." it sounds like a foreign person describing their wedding night. can we bring the word "gender" back into the rotation please?

studio prep is going great. we're all on the same page, and we're making some really good progress. we're being like 100% more deliberate about our writing, and our lyrics, and just everything for this record than we were for the last one. i just feel like our sound is so SOLID. also, i'm doing the cover art this time, and i think it looks pretty. you'll see.