Well, today was truly

Well, today was truly freaky but as is par for the course up here a
solution to a problem that I never foresaw came about with no effort
whatsoever. We have the corporate apartment for about another two weeks,
which is fine but, there is a problem. We got turned down for the
apartment that we had out hopes set on because they forgot to take into
account the fat raise I got by moving here. So I called Gloria wigging
out, thinking we were going to be sleeping in the car for a month. She
called back in like 20 minutes and had the whole thing worked out. It was
incredible. So now we have a new apartment just waiting for us.. and a
place to stay for a month until it's ready.

Chicago is a strange place for me at the moment, I have so much work to do
and so little head space to deal with my surroundings. It's like all these
people look at me and think I'm the weirdo from Louisville and how odd I
behave, but I keep thinking "If these people could only put my existence
in some sort of context, meet the people I know and you would understand
where it is that I'm coming from." I guess that is the first stage of
starting to really miss Louisville though, I mean I start wanting to
integrate my old friends into this situation so that I don't lose them and
so that I can make sense of the huge changes that I'm going through. It's
a good thing though. I miss all my friends fiercely, especially since I
realized that a second ago. I haven't really missed anything since I left,
I haven't had time. But now I think it's hitting me. I love the people
I've met up here and they are all great people, but I really do feel like
an outsider and probably will for a while. Gloria is having a much easier
time of it, she's comfortable wherever she goes. But I'm more of an
introvert. It will happen though, 'm not extremely worried, after all a
solution has crept up to every problem so far, if I don't get uptight and
let it happen, a solution will present itself.

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