i get it, i get it. vermont is beautiful and calm and quiet and relaxing. but as i was driving to one of my teaching gigs yesterday, stuck behind a semi going 30 mph on a 50 mph road, i looked around at the nothingness i was surrounded by, i thought to myself "why the hell would anyone want to live here?" and yes, i know... visiting a place like vermont can be a great reprieve from the usual intensity of life... but it's a good place to visit. hold it. it's a great place for certain types of people to live forever in and a good place for ME to visit. although i highly doubt that once i leave vermont i will ever want to visit. and perhaps there's some really awesome stuff going on outside of the general area i'm living in.... but the folks i run into on a daily basis seem like they'd be really great friends with the non-smiling, super sad folks of rural china. all wearing sweatpants and seeming to dislike fun, exciting things and working hard to maintain a relatively stagnant state of existence. and again... there may be really great folks out there doing really fun things..... and i think they live in baltimore. :)
if anything, living here has without a doubt convinced me that 1- i belong in a city with weird folks and stoplights and lots of stimulation, 2- teaching middle schoolers is way more fun and interesting and challenging than teaching college students and is what i should be doing with my life, 3- i want my own black hoodie, converse-wearing tikes to live in a place with all sorts of different types and colors of poeple, 4- i want my dog to be able to play with other dogs at dog parks, and 5- dating people in a town where, when folks find out you have a date ask "does he have all his teeth? does he have a job? is he an alcoholic?," does not a fantastic romantic life make. so cross your fingers... my first baltimore interview is this weekend and i'm only a few months away from a return to all things quirky and fantastic.
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