Everything can look like a failure in the middle

--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, via @HBSNews

I'm reviving the blog and I promise I'll try to keep things interesting if you wish to follow along as I figure out this next exciting step in my life (oh, and I guess you can read about my adventures in China, considering I've written twice since 2008.)

Today I put in my two weeks notice at work.

Throughout my life I've always been the kind of person to stick it out- wait until the end of the movie, even if it was awful or I fell asleep (W, anyone?). Even if I never returned to Irish Dancing, Rowing or Chemistry, I stuck it out until the end of the year/season/class simply because I had always been raised not to "quit" anything. We Zs, we finish things (including everything on our plate.) It is just the way I was raised- you don't give up on things.

I find myself coming to the end of a long summer of promises and expectations that I have been building up for myself. I told myself that I had until September to find a "real" job or I was moving back home. Also, I went from being in a long distance relationship of the 1,500 mile variety to a boyfriend living in a city I've always been fascinated with, New York City. Also, it is safe to assume that I am less than thrilled with the current job I find myself in. So instead of sticking it out I'm sticking up for myself and I'm leaving to find a better job and living situation.

Somehow the stars aligned such that my lease is up a mere 3 days before my last day of work. I'm looking at apartments in NYC (though who knows what will happen in the end in terms of employment) and in the interim I will be taking a little vacation in CT with my wonderful parents to refocus on applying for jobs, running, cooking and enjoying my life to the fullest as opposed to settling for the job I had in Boston.

I pinky swear to update more and to write shorter updates with more pictures. My warning is that this blog will probably have very little focus-- some job hunt here, fashion there, technology another day, perhaps a sports musing or two (did I mention I'll have TV again in CT?!).