And the In the Space Library is open,

in the Grand Tradition of Paris is burning, the Space Library is open.

Austin Kopic, welcome back. Thank you, Gordon.

It's good to be here amongst the shelves.

Well, I think the burning question that is on everyone's mind that we should open the show is,

how is the space baby? Tell us about the space baby. Oh, so the space baby.

Oh, so the space baby is a has been a herald of revelation for me.

You know, there's, oh, there's so much to say and, or there's so much, there's so much, and then there's the difficulty

of putting it into words and then there's the difficulty of finding words that don't sound

completely trite. So part of what I'll say is during the first couple of weeks I

discovered that almost everything everybody had ever

said about becoming a parent was true. Like almost all of the cliches like 90% like oh that's why everybody says that.

But I've never had my nose rubbed in the truth before.

You know, in being asked, you know, how is it being a new parent my the best response I think I've come up with was that it's like being in love because it is it's like being in love for the first time with someone and also you know picking up

full-time shifts in a coal mine simultaneously like it's just both. Um, God, um, things I've learned, baby poop

doesn't smell nearly as bad as I thought it would. It certainly gets everywhere.

But I don't know. Can you ask me something more specific? It's just, it's just, it's not a thing that's happening in my life. It is my whole life for months and months and

And so it sort of encloses everything right now?

That's good.

I think that's why it's an actual space baby.

I'm into it.

I think that works.

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