I guess I'm doing everything I set out to do.

I just biked home from work, and am now listening to my new Feist album and looking out the open window onto my breezy new street. I say breezy because really, even though that doesn't describe just my street in particular, that's the overall feeling of this neighborhood. So far in Berkeley it's been consistently 75 degrees, perfectly sunny, and breezy, ever since I got here. The biking is pleasant and somewhat hilly, which makes for a blood-pumping ride to work and an exhilarating, easy ride home.

I work at a used bookstore six blocks from home, as of yesterday. The people are chill and even the customers are a different breed from most retail - that is, bay area californians in a really cheap used bookstore two blocks from the uc-berkeley campus. I feel really, really in control of everything I'm doing lately. At least compared to my last job(s) working for the PIRGs. Never again. Now I'm doing yoga every day (one block from home!), working 8 hours a day instead of 17. Biking instead of driving. Dipping my toes into San Francisco every so often. Ducking into thrift stores every few blocks as I meander down Telegraph Avenue toward campus. Loving it.

One thing that does tug at me is the familiarity of Minneapolis, of course, like trekking to the Triple Rock to see friends play in a rock concert and run into old buddies and drink a beer or two, milling around with friends. I guess that will happen here eventually, and in fact even more so after a time, since the people here just seem more chill and open to random conversation. It'll be interesting.