one month
as of today, we have one month to go. its an interesting feeling. today someone at work asked me if i would be back next year, and i responded, not wanting to get into it “no, i’m moving.” and at that moment it semi hit me — i guess that is what we are doing. except we arent a hundred percent sure where we’re moving to. or, we are moving and we will keep on moving, for a little while at least. either way, it’ll be a change. i’ve left ny before, for a month here and there, and college, which i dont think counts, but i’ve never moved out of it. i am, to be honest, a little nervous.
but mainly i’m excited. a month from today we should be in guayaquil, ecuador, presumably sweating our asses off and maybe (hopefully) looking at a lizard or two. but, before then, there’s more boring shit to get through: shots to get, stuff to move, an online tefl course to finish, cavities (lots of cavities!) to fill, etc. in the meantime i shall do my best to spare you, my adorable readers, the gory, soporific details.
–anna
June 19th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
We (your readers) are not only adorable, but also very adoring. Yes, adoring. And excited for you. And promising us the sparing of the gory details after publishing the contents-to-be of your first aid kit seems a tad … well, too late.
I moved out of New York once (I’ve come back, goddammit, but didn’t know at the time that I would). It was kind of like quitting a job you’ve long since tired of. You know how on the last day of that sickening, soul-sucking job, when you walk out of the building and you breathe a little better — chainsmoking nonwithstanding — and you stand a little straighter, and everything glints a little less disgustingly? And you commence the dancing and leaping from oil-slick to oil-slick, and the doing of the victory laps around the block, pumping your fist in the air? Ahh, sometimes I think it’s worthwhile to work in a shitty job just to one day quit it.
Well, this is what it is like to move out of New York. Be nervous! Be thrilled! It is exciting and wonderful.
P.S. If you do decide to do a victory lap around the airport in guayaquil, be careful of your ankle.