..I’m out.
Yes, it’s been months since I posted here, but just in case there are still some of you out there following me, a little update:
I’ve been working like a madwoman here in the Great White North. Work is going great & I have been getting tremendous satisfaction from it, in a way that I haven’t felt in ages. I have had few distractions up here, and evidently that has been great for me. I’ve made tremendous progress on my book & have gotten some good feedback on what I’ve done so far. I feel very confident in my ideas, and more importantly, I feel very confident in myself. This is new territory & I love it.
I got a new job, in a much warmer location! Most importantly, it’s a permanent professor gig at a great school. I am thrilled and also relieved. All this moving around has been exhausting—financially, physically, emotionally. So I can’t wait for August when I will move to a city known for its music…
DS dumped me early in December. We had had a tough few months, but I was confident we could shake it & move along. I still—unfortunately I guess—feel that way. And so it’s been a very painful winter/spring for me. I’ve tried to throw myself into work & the good feelings I have about my new life in the new city with the new job, but it’s still very rough.
I guess one really interesting thing about my time here in my scholarly isolation is that I have learned to enjoy my solitude. Sure, I obsessively check Facebook & Twitter, IM, etc. so I’m not exactly alone alone. Yet I have had many days over the past nine months when the only human beings I have spoken to are the bus driver who takes my ticket & the Starbucks barista who takes my order. And you know what? It’s actually OK.
Thanks for following me all this time. Drop me a note (picablog at gmail) if you’d like info on how to follow the “real” me.
