It Doesn't Feel Like Two Weeks
That's all it's been, though. I got here on the 8th, and life went into whirlwind mode. To wit: staying with a friend at her apartment in Manhattan, relearning public transit systems and subway navigation, taking up the reins of my new position with its attendant increase in speed (and yet I have had many compliments, so maybe I'm competent, after all?), apartment hunting online and in person, falling in instantaneous love with my target neighborhood, commuting commuting commuting, staying with another friend north of the city and cheerfully delightedly acquiescing to the demands of her cats, Avengers and Thor and Skyrim, falling back in love with good food, drinking too much Starbucks, rocker chick punk princess birthday road trips to Poughkeepsie and Vermont, discovering I quite like being on the edge of a mosh pit, acquiring the knack of being under a crowdsurfer (get yer mind outta the gutter), finally seeing the Bouncing Souls with friends in small clubs, being ridiculous enough to talk to energetic baby bands (from the pit, while they're onstage), smiles, being whomped in the gut by amazing bass playing and group hugs, bruises, flirting, new friends, new bands, band camp breakfasts, Bamboozle and more crowdsurfing, and more bruises, and more conversations from the stage (much kinder this time, Jimmy Eat World making sure we were going to survive the retrofit of the suddenly much-less sturdier barrier), surprise!MCR (my 23rd show), sand and long talks in ocean air, and work, and selling like a champ, and Starbucks (again) and pretty pretty NJ boys everywhere to smile at and be smiled at by. And sportsbikes. Oh holy hell, sportsbikes, like heaven. And green tea ice cream, first taste of it in years. And Lake Champlain. And sitting, writing in a journal in the shade of an oak tree, sheltered by a holly bush, with a stream singing nearby, and realizing, all of a sudden: this is New Jersey. I can find a home here.
All this, in just a day shy of two weeks time.
And it's just the beginning.
All this, in just a day shy of two weeks time.
And it's just the beginning.