the update.

one month, several "interesting" bus rides and one painful "breakup" later, here i am.

i've learned a lot in a month.

i've learned that working less than a mile from my dad (and in the skyway system at that, a wonderful, wonderful privilege for us minnesotans in the dead of winter) gives us the chance to share several lunches together, making our relationship the best it's ever been.

i've learned to (mostly) overcome my fear of elevators.... working on the 7th floor of a building will do that for you.

i've learned that even though it still might take me two hours to get home, taking the bus during a snowstorm is the absolute best way to go-- two hours and a 100 pages into valley of the dolls, and i'm home, sans all the stress that comes with that nasty traffic.


i've learned that i no longer want to waste any more tears on yet another man who doesn't deserve them, and i've learned that not only can i feel again, but that i can move on from those feelings and create my own happiness, control my own future.