The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

If you haven't already inferred it, I'm back in the US. I got back last Wednesday and camped out at my dad's in New Jersey, making also several forays into New York. It was a little weird hanging out in New York after being in Hamburg. Hamburg is a significant city - perhaps the second most populous in Germany? - but it's a sleepy cow-town compared to Manhattan.

Chrismahanukwanzakah was spent in several places, seeing lots of friends and family. What's cool is that a friend of my sister's with an apartment in mid-town left it for her to use, so we were able to use it as a base camp for visiting the New York relatives. It now makes about four nights, in my entire life, that I've slept over in Manhattan. There was so rarely any need to, since we could always just go home to New Jersey. But it was pretty convenient not to have to worry about the commute.

I think, though, that this is the longest period I've spent in the area in years. Maybe even since high school! Normally I just pop in for a few days at a time, in a whirlwind of trying to cram in as many visits with local people that I can. This time I've already been here for over a week. I could stay longer; I was contemplating spending the New Year down here. But I'm starting to get antsy about getting back to Boston. Not because I miss Boston - I'm sort of dismayed by how little I do, especially given that I need to live there for a while longer - but because I haven't really been there since May, and I now have two trips to unpack from (California and Germany.) My room is a disaster, and I'd like for it not to be when I head into classes January 9.