Between lives
I haven’t been blogging a lot since coming back, mainly because I feel like I’m in a daze.
It’s strange being back in the United States, though not nearly as strange as I was expecting. I haven’t really experienced any sort of reverse culture shock, which I attribute to the fact that I’ve gone out relatively little since coming back, and I’ve interacted with very few people other than B and some of my closest friends. Other than the whirlwind weekend in DC, during which we found an apartment and I interviewed for the job that I now have (yay for employment!), my life has been eerily quiet and still.
Beneath all this stillness, I’m wicked excited to move. I got a very good impression of DC and the town we’ll be living in during that whirlwind weekend, and since B got accepted into law school there, everyone’s been raving about what a great place DC is. However, if I had been continuing to work for my alma mater these last few months, living in the area that has been more “home” for me than anyplace I’d lived previously, I would probably not be nearly so enthusiastic. It helps that right now I’m kind of in between lives, done with my China life and close to starting my DC life. Despite my love for it, right now Western Mass is so temporary, and while I’m sure I’ll always miss it, I don’t currently feel connected enough to it to dampen my excitement for moving.
It’s also crazy to think that I’m going to start teaching Chinese in just over a month. I’ve been working for this for many years, and now that it’s almost here, I’m a little bit dumb-struck.
Anyway, just some recent thoughts.
