Today was my very last day of class at Mills College. This semester has really flown by, and while I still have final exams to give and course grades to tally and submit, it's slowly sinking in that today itself marks quite a significant milestone in my life.
Dear Mom & Dad - I love you. ♥
D and I found this winner of a post card in a random gas station a few months ago. All joking aside, it pretty much sums up my life as of late. These past ten years I've found myself bouncing between between Berkeley and Annapolis and Cambridge and Oakland and SLC and even Boise, but at the end of the day, "home" for me since 2005 has always meant the Bay Area.
This year things are going to change. I've been telling family, friends and colleagues on an individual basis, but consider this my official announcement that I will be moving to Salt Lake City this year. While I love my job and I still love Bay, it's time for a new chapter in my life. Follow along these next few months as I attempt to check everything off of my informal "Bay Area Bucket List" by revisiting some favorite haunts and exploring new little adventures. Tourist buses, here I come.
Looks like "Home" and "Utah" may soon not be that different after all.
I'm happy and proud to report that I am continuing to stick by my New Year's Resolution for 2014. It hasn't always been easy, but I'd like to think that it's made me a better person both towards others and also to myself. This has been a crazy whirlwind of a year, to say the least - somewhere between calling everywhere from Oakland to Salt Lake City to Boise to Annapolis "home", I've been fortunate enough to see a few of the most beautiful places in this country. Taking this recent teaching sabbatical was one of the best things I've done for myself in a while, not only because it gave me a chance to spend time with one of the most important people in my life, but because it provided me with the opportunity to truly reevaluate my own interests, priorities, needs and wants. This year introduced a handful of firsts (scary foods / solo long-distance drives / sharing family traditions / life in Idaho / rafting down rivers, to name a few) and continued some ongoing favorites (life with this guy and this fuzzier guy / friendships / pumpkins / holidays with these two), and while it also saw the passing of a dear little squeaky friend and seven months without a steady paycheck, it was nonetheless one of the best years in recent memory.
2015, I'm ready for you. I'm ready to start a new chapter in my life, and am eager (nervous, yes, but eager) to see what these next twelve months will include in terms of life changes, friendships, continued travels and new adventures. Here's to a great year, 2015, I'm going to do my best at tackling and enjoying whatever you may bring.
2010, diesel café photo booth, Cambridge.
