Just spent two weeks with my girlfriend лена in New Jersey and New York. It was wonderful. I met her
family and friends, and she met my friends, most of whom still live in New York state. We are still trying to
workout the whole future thing, although I'm confident that we can work things out. The shitty economy
stateside is decidedly not helpful.
This is what a jerk I am. When I was in the Hudson Valley we went on a hike where the fall colour was in
full force and my friend Brad said something like “This beautiful colour is our reward for having to live
through the cold hard winter”, to which I responded reflexively “Speak for yourself, I'm going to the
beach!”. Yay for Australia being awesome. Only, wait for it, then I started repeating this story over and
over for people who were actually going to have to live through the winter in New York this year (which in my
defense I had to do six times). The awesome thing about my friends is they still like me anyway.
It's weird now though because just a week ago the trees were all red and yellow and some of them were on the
ground and walking to work today they were green again and fastened tightly to the trees. And to be honest, it
isn't warm enough yet to go to the beach (karma). How can two places so far apart seem like home.
