Came back and saw nostalgia at its finest
 So I randomly came back here after having not visited for over 2 years. Holy cow, within the last few posts alone, the nostalgia kills me. Back in 2009, all of our lives seemed to painted with uncertainty. Now I look at my life now, and the things I said about my life in 2009 are hilarious. What the hell was with that comment in my #2, anyway? At that point in my life, I felt that that would never pass. Now it is so bygone, it's laughable.

Oh the things I have learned in the past 2.5 years.

I guess I will provide an update, so that when I or any of the other daisies come back here in 2014, we will be able to laugh again.

I am still living in Minneapolis, the greatest city in the world, in my opinion. I got my master's in Speech Pathology in about 2 years and a few months. I am licensed to practice in Minnesota. (what am I? Like some kind of doctor?) I work at a Charter School where all the students are Hmong. I am picking up some words in Hmong and work comfortably with Hmong in the therapy room with my students (despite my complete ignorance of the language) and with interpreters. I can read Hmong at the level at which my students only laugh at me occasionally. Work used to give me an anxiety that I wasn't sure I could control without the help of pharmaceuticals, but at this moment, I feel I have it under control. I get cranky when I don't sleep before 11. Most nights I'm in bed by 9:30.

I have a cat, who I adopted 2.5 years ago. Her name is Zooey. I also have a Minnesotan sweetheart. He's sort of like Paul Bunyan, but less burly, less lumberjacky, and plays more video games. He teaches Chinese. We talk about moving to China, but only temporarily. I don't plan on moving back to California any time soon. It feels weird to type that out loud.
  Miss Irene @ 8:33 PM
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