bookend
this is my offering to counter the notion that i seem a bit disenchanted with “this place”, because it couldn’t be further from the truth (despite the fact that i am genuinely disgruntled with the state of asian eats here). i prefer, instead, to look at it like a bookend to how i felt when i got here. the same frustrations (and a few new ones) are there, but i am every bit as enchanted by its beauty as i ever was. unlike my usual blaze-through a city, i’ve stayed for three years, grown exponentially, am more sure than i ever was about my career goals and realities, and am closing it out on a very high note. i will be back.
