Just a post.

Hi GSS and our admirers. I have gotten on here and half-assedly attempted a post at least a dozen times. Today I'm actually gonna hit publish.
Since graduation, I've kind of been a lost soul. I went to New York with a few bucks and a whole lot of excitement, and it turned out to be a failure of sorts. Mostly, looking back on it, I was looking for jobs in all the wrong places (I thought I was invincible with my uni degree) and my lack of a job/career ultimately soured the entire experience for me. I moved home, where the air literally smells like pine, and was happy and safe. I learned more about life and about myself in my brief NYC stint than I did in, like, my whole four years of college. So that was cool. Plus, I got to meet some rad people and see some neat stuff, so it's all good. I don't hate NYC as much now as I did when I was there. Maybe my timing will be better someday.
Regardless, I joined my fellow recent graduates and moved back into my parent's homes. It was a pretty sweet deal because I worked for my dad, so I could stay with him and not have to commute, and spend weekends and days off at my mom's. This way, no one got tired of each other and most fights and frustrations were avoided. It was great while it lasted, but I hope I will never have to move back in. It is just so sweet to have a place of one's own!
I worked my butt off all winter, teaching an 8th grade writing class, playing assistant/personal chef/chauffeur/big sister to a VERY deserving family, keeping Dad's clinic running, falling in love, and slaying giant steelhead in my spare time. It was wonderfully chaotic and cool. Found out I love to teach, manila charts give nasty papercuts, and smoking 20lbs. of fish takes more than 3 days to complete.
By the time spring rolled around, I was ready to go. Not ready to go back to school and tired of my whirlwind (commitment issues?), I decided to travel. A friend told me he was going to au pair in Germany for the year. I got jealous, did some research, and landed myself a job with a family in France. Et voila!
I'm in Megeve, France, in the Rhones-Alps region, until May 2013 (a constant internal battle against my commitment phobia). I see Mt. Blanc everyday. I am lonely and mute, but it gets better every day. Lots of time to reflect and write and explore and eat. And, lucky you, you get to hear about it.

What has everyone else been up to all your lives????