Moving

Sept. 5, 2007. Nashville, TN
Today is the start of something. In addition to this blog, it's the start to my new life in Nashville, TN. After months of fruitless e-mails and phone calls to ads posted throughout the world wide web, I gave in and packed my car for a nine hour car ride from my hometown in North Carolina to friends' apartment in Nashville. And to further put the uselessness of the google search for "nashville apartments" into perspective, I found a place to live the first morning I was here.
I'm excited, really truly excited. It's nice, seems like it's too rare that I feel so. I feel like I've been almost convincing myself that moving here was a good idea up until today. It feels like I've been trying to get away for so long, and today is the first day I feel like I'm trying to come to something. It feels nice. An even better feeling than that, is the realization that I actually have something to come to. More than just an apartment or space to sleep in, I feel like I coming to a decision in which I am completely supported, both by people here as well as people back home. (If I ever bother to write anything else in this blog, and you bother to keep up with it, soak it in, this is probably the last bit of optimism that you will read for a long time. It's pretty atypical to my general outlook.)
I fly back Friday, direct from Nashville to Raleigh Durham International Airport, leaving my car here. The next time I come back here I'll be riding on the wheels of a U-Haul truck, packed with my life and memories.
-Tim