Delayed Change
I terminated my Verizon home phone service three weeks ago. Sometime in the next 4-6 weeks, bureaucracy willing, I’ll be receiving a check for the the unused portion of my last billing cycle.
On March 27th, I left my job of two and a half years. Two and a half weeks ago, I moved to North Carolina and started searching for something new.
Three months ago, I said I’d start working on this blog so that everybody could keep up with me. Today, I wrote my first entry.
Sometimes change happens all of a sudden; more often, it plays out over a long period of time. And rarely when gradual change starts do you have any idea how drastically it will alter your course. Late last summer when I first began to question how much longer I wanted to stay in my job, I no inkling that less than a year later we’d be living in North Carolina. It wasn’t until January or February that we even considered leaving New York, and not until late April that we settled on moving here. Slow, drawn out change, but totally life-altering.
Initially, we had planned to drive around the mid-Atlantic, check out a few cities in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, then make a decision about where we wanted to move. In the end, we didn’t do more than drive through Virginia and South Carolina; we had decided on Raleigh four days into what was supposed to be a three to four week trip. Quite a bit different than the way I had planned for it to play out, but the result has been fantastic.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting more detailed information about exactly what we did during our 15 day driving trip (yes, we kept going after Raleigh, and it was a lot of fun), along with pictures. I’ll also be posting updates about the job search and life in North Carolina as I go. Come winter, I’ll even post regular weather updates — with the obligatory “I’m wearing shorts in December” post — for everybody back in New York. And as I get more comfortable administering the site, the organization and look-and-feel will slowly change — for the better, I’m sure.