A wise woman once said, "If you don't know where you're going, stay where you are." Actually, I don't know if a wise woman once said it, but I just made it up three seconds ago. Let me try again: Lewis Carroll once wrote:
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" was his response.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter.
Too much philosophizing? Ok...third time's the charm: Jesse and I have gone back and forth and back again over an outrageous amount of options for our future, only to decide after none of them felt right, that we ought to stay where we are. And we're almost following our own advice, believe it or not. We're staying in Bowling Green for another academic year (oh yeah, I'm still framing my life based on the academic calendar. It's only a matter of time before I step back into that world) but we're moving out of our current rental situation and into another - two whole blocks away!
Just for entertainment's sake, here's a sampling of the future projects Jesse and I have considered over the past several months followed by the primary cause(s) for abandoning each pursuit:
-Move to Denmark: unrealistic, too expensive.
-Gain Irish citizenship through a loophole, then move to Europe and find jobs: paperwork didn't pan out, of course.
-Get certified to teach English as a second language and move to Europe: less unrealistic, still too expensive.
-Move to France and get paid by the French government to teach English as a second language: I don't speak French and the French government makes you sign a waiver of dependants - i.e. they won't help you have a spouse in the country.
-Stay in the States but move somewhere else: couldn't find anywhere to go and I didn't want to leave my bunnies behind.
-Stay in Bowling Green: denial.
-Go to Graduate School: I haven't taken the GRE yet...
-Move to Manhattan and do Mennonite Voluntary Service: I didn't want to leave my bunnies, and it didn't feel right.
Now, this isn't to say that we're "settling" for Bowling Green (although I admit, it really seems that way now that I made that list, doesn't it?). We actually like it here. Jesse is loving his job and we've made a number of 20-something friends in town, dispelling the myth that Bowling Green only has students, parents, and professors. We love the atmosphere, enjoy going on long walks at night, and feel pretty much at home. Why leave those things when nothing else feels right?
So, between April 1 and April 15, we're moving out of our current place and into a new one two blocks away. The rent's cheaper, and the place has been kept up much better. If you need our new address, shoot us an email.
Off to sewing new drapes! Not really... First I have to finish reading Harry Potter 7 again.
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5 comments:
I need your new address! Of course, just after I memorized your current one. When are you moving?
i, uh, would like the new address, too.
don't feel bad about staying in virtually the same place. while dc is an albeit larger, slightly more exciting city than bg, i still get antsy and like moving a lot so it was a lot for me to agree with andy that we should just stay in the apartment we've got and save up money.
i actually still keep searching for cheap 2 bedrooms. i don't think this makes me a bad person. :)
Celebrate staying in BG with a Thursday night gyro at South Side 6 and a trip to Ben Franklin's!
Moving is Moving.
the memory of getting a queen size mattress up and down stairs. . . ugh.
New address? I didn't send out the Christmas newsletter 2008, but if you want the 09 edition, we can have Amy be the courier.
Oh, Thanks for the Writer's Almanac on your sidebar. I now have it in my Bookmarks.
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I would like your new address and am very happy that you are staying in Bowling Green! It is a very nice community and you both add to it.
Not that you asked me, but I really appreciated the decision making process you used to end up staying---yet, moving. I have found that in the absence of clear direction about where or what I should go or do next--it is wise to just keep walking out the last thing (or the last place) that God had clearly directed me---figuring that He was perfectly capable of making the next step clear to me when the time was right-figuring that I must not be done with the last direction He gave me.
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