INTRO, PRELUDE, PREFACE, MY RAISON D'ETRE SUR LA BLOG

It is officially my first week in Charlotte. It has not technically been a week yet, but I figured I would get everyone up to speed. Here are the dirty details: I decided to migrate from being an analyst in a Corporate Bank in NY to an assistant on a Sales & Trading desk, conveniently located in the Wachovia (RIP) heartland of North Carolina.

Needless to say, I left my apartment - or better stated "EastVillageShitHoleWithShowerInTheKitchen" (*1. see picture below)...
 

 

*1.  

 (shower is the black and white pattern on the left hand side of the photo)

...Where I was as happy as a cramped clam (*2)...

*2.

...and clearly had no friends (*3 and *4)... 

*3.

(sara, me, sheena)

 

*4.

(me, sara, vic, linds, hannah- at my goodbye party).

On top of it all, I also was living in the same city as my sister (*5) and 80% of my favorite boys on this planet (*6,7,8). 

*5.

(me kris, oh yeah again, me kris)

*6. 

(eldo, me, scott)

*7.

(george, me, bagna)

*8. 

 (joey and me, before he went off to the Alaskan Wilderness).

SOOO...before my eyes, and very quickly, my apartment was packed up and ready to say goodbye to me (HELLO, HANNAH! *9)...

*5.

 *9.

and my friends (MISS YOU ALREADY) turned into ducks, whom I met on my walk home from work today (*10).

*10.

(billy, bob and sue)

In conclusion, I will do my best in this blog to introduce you to my new lifestyle. It will probably include a lot of comparisons with my previous lives (San Fran, LA, New York) and some contrasting descriptions as well. Feel free to comment, edit, yell at me, yawn, or just laugh. But I plan on making this a year (I think? Maybe more? Maybe less?) to remember...

Ciao for now, 

AMF