Good news! Nutrition is not the right field if you like food. Horticulture is. People were telling me about all the free food you get when it's harvest time. Today there were free flowers in the mailroom and Friday we can go blueberry picking for free at the campus orchard. I'm very excited, and it will help me save on food costs. I have lots of plans for budgeting so I can travel home and to other great places.
The town is tiny and easy to navigate but there is still tons of stuff going on, if you look at all the different listings. I haven't checked things out much, but at Cornell there is an interesting talk Weds and a dance show Tues, I might go to one of each. Sat I have a vegan potluck. The library is great and has free DVD rentals; it's very big for such a small town.
I found a Spanish speaker, he felt alone, but he's teaching in the English department, so there aren't many international students there... he speaks with his daughter, she looked to be about five. I will find more people! And probably I will bump into him again at some point.
My advisor, isn't there yet so I am mostly just being introduced to people and filling out forms. But I like a slow start. I have a desk in a room with a window. Outside is a garden.
I am so glad I am doing this big move after all I have done, going to the Tree and doing medicine and everything. I was so antisocial before and it would have be awful, I wouldn't have been able to adjust. I had needed a fast pace because my mind was insane and afraid to rest, the bigger the better. I wouldn't talk to new people and had less tolerance for things not going exactly my way. I wasn't as good at connecting to the people I did know well and lived by. Now I feel that distance is less of an obstacle, after having so many coincidences with Roman and now even others. Small ones but too solid to ignore without feeling in denial.
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