How I’ve Changed
In the transition from St. Louis to Charlottesville, I’ve focused a lot on what is different between the two. After a year, I find that I’ve changed as a result of having a foot planted in each.
- I am now friendlier to acquaintances (when you have few friends, you’d better be)
- I have a friend who says “to-mah-to”
- I am much more likely to approach strangers
- I am open to hanging out with people with whom I’ve been acquainted for less than 17 years (I’ll admit it, I was in a friend rut)
- I am more conscious of what I look like when I leave the house (in STL, I never once ran into someone I knew while at the grocery store. In C’ville, it’s guaranteed)
- I eat sushi
- I know who the Dave Matthews Band is (as in, I would know DM if I saw him on the street)
- I am more relaxed
- My stress is more concentrated/compressed/targeted
- I drive less than 45 mph at all times, unless I’m in STL
- I feel like I belong
- I’m often wistful
- I am a seasoned, frequent flyer (I don’t even get nervous anymore)
- I write more, am more introspective and slightly more introverted, all a result of working solo in a home office
- I’m taller. No, I can’t be; I just feel that way because there’s a whole new crop of people unused to my freakish height
Have you changed at all in the past year? Why?
February 1st, 2007 at 9:08 am
Isn’t it amazing how many people you see that you know at the stores? While C-ville is getting larger, I can still say that no matter where I go I see someone I know.
And, C’ville has done that to me as well–I feel like I belong. I have also set my inner creative person free here. That is the one positive change in me the past year.
The other–I’ve become a sadder person. Elaborating would take too long. It’s all wrapped in the shroud of my father’s death.
February 19th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
You are now eating Sushi???
The Bob’s would be so proud of you!
As far as Dave Matthews Band goes. I saw that Dave will be making his acting debut on House this week. I like the show… but the “guest starring Dave Matthews” is a bit Scooby Doo-ish if you ask me.