There are points where you are presented with obvious choices and breaks that begin a distinct new chapter in your life. For me there was going to Vassar, moving to California to live with my sister, then moving to Pittsburgh to be with friends. Now my options are fairly simple: on one hand I could wait for my job to be eliminated because of State budget cuts and start searching for new work in Pittsburgh and saving up to move back to Vermont while accruing more debt in the interim, or just simply go now. My parents were going to be in the neighborhood at the beginning of July so the choice was immediate and surprisingly easy. Within a single day I had gone from trying to move next spring to moving in three weeks.
It is remarkable to think of the experience I have had in Pittsburgh, from wide-eyed innocence upon my arrival to a complicated and hard engagement which I ended I have come to a certain kind of maturity here. And the friends I have made are amazing. I held a going-away party and invited people from work and from the Northside and this is the result. Put a bunch of artist together anywhere....
So I am going back to live with my parents for a couple of months in Bennington to make enough money to move up to Burlington. Joining me in that windy city (okay, let's be honest, it is a large town) will be my girlfriend Heather, a vital part of this next chapter. It should be an interesting journey no matter what happens. My eyes are wide yet again but rather with potential than innocence.
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