76 days.
That is how long I have been out of Salzburg. Out of those 76 days I have spent 66 on a different continent [North America] in the wonderful city of:
Chicago. It is by far my favorite city in this world (and of course I’m biased. I was born here).
In the last four years I was never out of Salzburg for long. I think the longest I spent away from Mozart’s beautiful city in those four years was never more than a little over a month and a half. And it sure feels good to be home.
Now that a decent amount of time has past since the end of last semester (and the winter semester has started for everyone back at the university) I find myself missing Salzburg more than I had expected to. I don’t think that I under appreciate how lucky I am to be able to live and study in Salzburg, although, at times I’m sure I don’t appreciate it enough. I don’t miss Salzburg on an hourly basis. I don’t miss Salzburg on a daily basis, nor on a weekly one for that matter. I do however, miss Salzburg because of the family I have there and the number of friends and great people I have met over the last four years who are there while I am not. I hope they consider themselves missed as I miss them very much.
On the other hand, I love being home and that is my main focus at the moment, (aside from working for a finance company from 8:00am-13:30 Monday through Friday, babysitting from 15:00 through 17:30 Monday through Thursday, catching up with friends from elementary school and high school, and doing my best to be as helpful as possible to my loving and hardworking family).
76 is an odd number. Maybe I should have waited a few more days [four to be exact] before writing an entry for this blog (an entry, I might add that is long over-due).
7 + 6 = 13 (13 is the jersey # of the most talented soccer player I had the honor of playing on the same team with for six years. My jersey # has always been 14).
14 = the # of days I have been thinking about what to write for this entry.
7 = the # of days I kept putting off writing down what I had in mind.
14 / 7 = 2
2morrow is a brand new day, and I have to be at work in six hours time, which gives me 4 ½ hours of sleep until then. . . so as always,
TTFN
