Well, I had mentioned big news and here it is: Jen and I are NYC bound. Like, real soon- as in three weeks. She just took a job with Psychology Today with her last day at WIRED here in SF being July 12th. As excited as I am this is still a bittersweet moment for me. I moved to SF from Ohio eight years ago and, for a while, thought that I'd never leave. I love San Francisco but the publishing world finds it's pulse in NYC and I am looking forward to finding my niche there. As a recovering socialist I know that money is a necessary evil that often feels good when you have it and I think that my best chance to make some is in New York.
Alas San Francisco will always captivate me in many ways... I met my wife here, got my college degree here, expanded my horizons to places that Ohio would never have let me and had a grand time doing it. I wonder how it will feel living in Brooklyn . . . if I will have that same transcendent feeling that being in SF often has given me. I wonder if winter is as bad as I recall. I wonder if the heat of summer will scorch my soul.
Yet I am more than confident that the future will be brighter than the past. With Jen being from Long Island and her brother Brian living in Manhattan we will have family nearby. And Akron is now only an hour and a half flight or half days drive. With two nephews that I rarely get to see (and a third on the way from my sister Jamie) I am grateful that I will get to share in their youth a little bit more now.
In leaving this City by the Bay the music in my head is a cacophony of emotions in which a melody must be found.
we look foreward to having you back on this side of the big river. snow is nice. it is nice to look at and to ball up and throw at your friends. it also helps you appreciate the summer. oh, don't forget about flat commutes on the bike in NY...big plus.
Posted by: brandon | June 29, 2006 at 08:29 PM