not complaining anymore

i realize in the past few posts i have bitched about a lot of things that i hate. there happen to be a lot of things that i hate. incidentally, there also happen to be a lot of things that i do enjoy.

it seems less necessary to go on rants about how things make me happy but i will elaborate on one thing that is making me happy that i wasn’t so sure about: champaign, il.

you see, when i visited with my ex (not ex at the time) three months ago we had a pretty shitty time and were butt-fuck bored and ready to leave after three days. we also got an image of the city as pretty freaking urban and ghetto.

now that i’ve been back to live, i am pleasantly surprised. i guess ex and i managed to just find and stay in the worst parts of the city. within 24 hours of being here, i’ve stumbled across the pretty neighborhoods, all the nice restaurants, good bars, shopping centers… basically everything nice that we couldn’t find. i went to campus today and i think i am falling in love with it. The grocery stores are also cheaper and have way better selections of produce and fish since we are in an area that grows shit besides just wheat and cattle. i even bought costa rican fish today!

i also got my keys to my office today. it is 10x nicer than the shitty building i would have had my office in at KU. and it feels so… weird. i am going to be teaching entire classes of college kids and i keep thinking, wtf, when is someone going to wake up and realize it’s a clerical error and grab my keys back before i fuck something up majorly?

i talked to the head of the department today and i think academics-wise, this department is exactly where i need to be. i’ll get to study exactly what i want and they really want to work with me and i also found out that i was one of 30 selected out of 130 applications, so sweet, the standards should be pretty high. oh, and campus is quite pretty. i’m insanely excited about teaching and my own classes and i think i’m falling in love with the campus.

i still have to find people to go out and drink with.