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Austin was a lot of fun.  It was great to see my friend after a year and then spend some time exploring the city on my own after she left to visit with her own family.  It is great to see other cities and experience their pace.  It is also great to know that I have a place to call home.

One thing that has always amazed me about New York City is how I feel when I get back to the city after being away from it.  When I land in a plane.  Then when I am in a taxi coming from the airport back into the city and there is craziness going on around me.  As much as the craziness can wear on you after a while (which is why it is important to go other places), there is a definite comfort the craziness brings to me when I return after being away.  All of the people on the street.  No matter the time of day, racing around, all different shapes, sizes, colors, doing anything and everything.  Cars -- mostly taxis -- buzzing up the street.  I don't stay up late at night, but just knowing that I could stay up all night and that others do excites me.  I am not a thrill seeker.  I am not a loud person.  I don't think I like loudness.  Yet even as I sit in this crazy crowded Starbucks clicking away on my computer, it is extremely comforting to me that there is a steady flow of noise around me.  I guess it is what you get used to.

I really love New York.   That will be one of my criteria for my next career move.  Living in New York.  Unless there is a really compelling reason to leave, it is here I want to stay.  I do not want to stay here by default.  I do not want to stay here because I am already here and it just easier to stay here.  I don't want to live somewhere else.  Check.  I am now officially one step closer to shaping what my life will look like after I take this crazy quitting time off.