so begin the terrible tremendous twos

Today marks two years since I started this little blog. Back then I was about to leave Austin, Texas and return home to the Bay Area and life on the twenty-seventh floor. Time flies by so quickly yet that whole undertaking seems like a lifetime away.

I was in the middle of a packing frenzy and at each turn it seemed like something more bizarre than the next happened. First there was the squirrel that got into the house and ultimately in my bed where I still lay sleeping, then the whole couch fiasco and finally the call from my Aunt informing me that my sister was gravely ill (paralyzed by some rare syndrome) living in a nursing home at the tender age of 32.

Two years later I still am not a squirrel fan although I can be in a park swarming with them. The couch has still not been replaced but we are most definitely close. And my sister, well she has at long last found peace (a year and a half ago although I have only known for six months).

Of course that is only part of the story. Since then I have managed to move to Chicago. Slowly but surely things are starting to look up. Tonight for example we head over to the Aquarium for a semi-formal event hosted in honor of the first year GSB students. We get to dance with the fishes.

I keep thinking of the Phoenix and how he has to explode in flame to be reborn in all his magnificent glory. In many ways I feel like this mythical bird. I think I am about to emerge with a new brilliant set of feathers. Forget what I said about two and terrible. Change that to tremendous.