Look who's back... long time, no see, eh? While I should be doing my lesson planning for the rest of my life, I mean summer, I decided to start the good ole blog back up as a form of relaxation... Lately my life has been slightly chaotic and stressful and I feel like it can be best explained through my sense of direction.
So for those of you who do not know, I just recently moved to Cincinnati to work for the summer. I like to consider myself a fairly intelligent person (please do not tell me if you disagree), but for some reason I just cannot figure this darn city out. Seriously, I've found myself having to leave an extra ten minutes earlier than I already do because I get myself so turned around. I've been late for work, meeting people, lost in not-so-great parts of town, and to a grocery store that I still could not tell you how I got there. It is absolutely absurd and one of the most frustrating experiences of my life.
And I realize that this lack of direction is not just a literal lack of direction anymore. Ever since returning from my adventures abroad, I have just been kind of wandering. My job hasn't really gotten in to full swing yet and I really have no idea what to expect from that. I'm not really sure what the future holds for me in my personal life anymore either. Things that I thought I had figured out are now completely mixed up and things just keep coming out of left field. I feel like I am constantly on my toes, which is, quite frankly, exhausting.
However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I can now successfully get to northern Kentucky from where I live and work without the direction of any other person. And I am hoping that is what I will get out of this summer. A little more direction, even though I have an idea that it will not be nearly the direction I was thinking it would be.
What's the moral of this story? Stay tuned. I am actually going to keep this up over the summer, for those of you who care, to share my stories and hopefully find my way in life. I pray to God more successfully than I have found my way around Cincinnati.
