The hardest thing about moving is keeping up with people you love who live hundreds of miles away.

new year, new life, new city. 2009 was solid to me; I made a resolution to stay single, and did, and that was one of many things that helped me figure out a lot more thing about myself and start doing things for me. And now I'm in Chicago, well-adjusted and smiling and not needing or wanting anything except today and tomorrow and whatever is ahead ( Read more... )

whirlwind at work until I leave thursday, covering my ground before some vacation : CHI >> SFO 3 nights of fun with annetrencher, then SFO >> LAX for my best friend from elementary/highschool Sophia's wedding, LAX >> CHI late monday night, and then CHI >> WISCONSIN for work, and back Wednesday. I am sure in for some jetlag and desperate, grumpy, ( Read more... )

Chicago has certainly lived up to its fuss. I have this moment everyday where I realize how lucky I am, that everything around me has just fallen perfectly into place almost overnight, and I feel well-adjusted, and balanced, and right, and even in moments of chaos in cramped trains on the way to work these overwhelming waves of calm seem to take ( Read more... )

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things i’m NOT going to miss about philly ( Read more... )

At first I was kind of panicking. I mean, who wouldn't, uprooting my whole life in Philly on two weeks notice to move 13 hours away to a city where I know absolutely no one? Yes, its what I wanted, but planning all the details on my own, completely on my own, has had its moments of sheer terror. I'm still packing up my life, slowly but with ( Read more... )

well, i got the job

and I'm moving to Chicago....

Chicago was perfectly sunny and windy, full of life, and heartmelting as usual. The interview went well, so now I wait and wait... but have two more this coming week in other places. Obviously there's only one place I want to be, though ( Read more... )

i have an impeccable knack for fucking up good things.