A Different Kind of Seven-Year-Itch

The seven-year anniversary was last Monday. It's funny though, on every anniversary so far, I look back at my first days here like it happened yesterday. But, something's different this time. Seven years ago seems farther away than ever before. Is this what people who moved here in the 60s feel like? I wonder if this is simply result of being here for so long. Living here has gotten easier over the years. I guess the best compliment I could get was for the Americans to think I was one of them. They do that anyway, but to forget that I'm international is really something. But I am happy to realize, especially after the last trip home, that my real self is intact. I no longer have the fear of losing myself in another culture to the extent that I would forget my true self.

But the best is yet to come. The thesis is on in full swing...well, as well as things could be. Things seem to slow down once in a while and then need a jumpstart. But I'm happy that my motivation hasn't diminished and I hope that I will finish everything by May. I'd like to think that things on the job front are looking up...or at least that I'm talking to more people about it than my last go-around. Fingers are crossed, the Is are dotted and the Ts are crossed...literally, in the name on my new Web site that is. :) I finally found the blank sketch book today and redid the screenplay to make it more realistic. The whole directing a work of fiction notion has me a little on edge, but I can only hope that my instincts don't fail me.

Only a few weeks to finishing the semester and going to Colorado. Can't wait....the fresh mountain air, the long drives, the late night coffees and other simple pleasures of life. Then Toronto, and finally, if life goes to plan (as it SO often has)...New York Cité.

Things just keep getting better and better! :)