Changes Are Afoot

I'm slowly but surely peeking out from the state of mental paralysis I've been hiding (hibernating?) in for the last several months. My paralysis certainly did not extend, however, to the physical because I have been a busy girl-on-the-go this year (not to mention my travels from last fall, a post on which I've got in the works), with a DC-NYC reunion tour (I met up with several old college friends I hadn't seen in years), a visionquest roadtrip to the Grand Canyon with another college friend, a trip to the desert to commune less with nature and more with resort, pool-side living with my old roommie, and another roadtrip this weekend to San Francisco with my first roommie ever from my Berkely summer. Now, I'm gearing up for a move east, at least for the summer, with a possible jaunt to Greece (and a quickie stop in Paris) in July. Grad school apps, GRE tests, job hunts, and finding great scotch bars and dance spots in NYC are all in the works for the summer. This time last year, I was certainly in a less sunny place emotionally and geographically (there was snow in Tokyo in April last year!!). I'm looking forward to seeing what the next few months bring.

p.s. I was in the middle of drafting this post when my mom called to tell me Osama bin Laden had been killed. Whaaaaaat?? Whoa!! Weird how things like this have a way of resembling each other. The last time I heard about an event related to OBL, it was a friend who called me in Paris while I was cleaning my apartment to tell me that a plane had just flown into one of the WTC building; last night I was sitting in a Starbucks and no one else around me seemed to have heard the news--even in the information age, good ol' word of mouth still seems to be one of the fastest and most reliable news sources.