I'm home

Well kids, after almost 3 years of being detached from NY & whining about missing my city, I'm back. Can't help but express how ecstatic I am to be where I belong. The past 2 years in Madison have been nothing short of extraordinary though, and I definitely am going to miss all my friends that became family. I feel like I've said way too many goodbyes before the age of 22... but at least I have people I love all over the country? And at least I always have people to look forward to seeing. :)

That being said, I miss my Madison roommates & friends very much, but that just means that they have all the more incentive to come visit me in NYC... :)

Okay enough rambling. Details? Let's do this. So I got here on Tuesday, after a car ride, 2 plane rides, an airtrain ride, and 2 subway rides. The trip took way too long, but I made it! Thank God Carla and I are roommates b/c we have been separated for way too long ... and Tyler lives 3 floors above us so that is awesome as well. So then the next day I had an interview, and got a freelance editing job for a magazine called CrossCurrents, which publishes articles about religion, politics, and the arts. So before I had even been in the city for 24 hours, I already had a paying work-from-home job! Again I can't express how extremely happy I am. I also find it ironic/amazing that I ended up with a Journalism job without even going through with my Journalism major...awesome.

So yeah. I'm living in an NYU dorm right by Union Square Park, in Greenwich Village, until August 9th, at which point I will be homeless & needing to find an apartment...most likely in Queens b/c Manhattan is financially out of the question, and since I'm planning on going to City College (in Harlem) for grad school, Queens is my closest, safest borough to live in. Don't even want to think about buying furniture and finding strangers for roommates...but everything will fall into place eventually.

Speaking of, I'm also hoping that I'll be able to find an actual job just as easily as the freelance thing. Lots of stuff to figure out, but I have the rest of my life ahead of me. Sorry for the cliches. I'm just so happy about how everything has turned out. :D