::time zone mix-up::

i'm feeling bitter-sweet about my move to Cali...excited to explore a new city and a new state and pursue a masters but sad to leave my friends in new york and my family on the east coast.

lately i've been reading burroughs and kerouac because their subject matter seems apropos right now. this passage from the dharma bums struck me as an especially lovely one:

"In Berkeley I was living with Alvah Goldbook in his little rose-covered cottage in the backyard of a bigger house on Milvia Street. The old rotten porch slanted forward to the ground, among vines, with a nice old rocking chair that I sat in every morning to read my Diamond Sutra. The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under and meditate on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world."

here's to new adventures and starry California nights...