Anticipation

We leave for Charleston in exactly one week.
I was going to write a Latest Obsessions post
today but I really only have one obsession
right now and it's this trip.

I went to the College of Charleston
for 1 year, from the fall of 2004 to
the spring of 2005.  I felt like I was
stuck in a rut living in NJ and I knew
that I needed an immediate change.
So I found the College of Charleston,
applied, was accepted, and moved down
in August.

I immediately was faced with what I had known
all along, that I didn't want to live there-
I wanted to live in New York.  But looking back,
this was a necessary stepping stone on my path
to the big city.  So I spent the year down there,
loving the town but never really feeling a part of it.
At the time I felt extremely lonely and slightly lost.
But in hindsight, I went out more than I thought I did,
I had a small social group, and was having the most
amazing art experience ever. (though I wouldn't realize
that until I started classes at Pratt)
I have nothing but good memories from my time there,
and I think about the city so often because it played such
a big part in the transition period that it one's early 20's.

So now the husband and I will be going down, and it makes
me so emotional just thinking about it.  About being able
to show him a place that is so special to me, and being there
-in the place where I felt my loneliest- with the person who I am
spending the rest of my life with.  It's overwhelmingly exciting.
It will also be interesting to see how the city has changed,
I have been down there twice since I left CofC, but I feel like
the real renaissance is happening right now.  We've got
a reservation at Husk for my actual birthday, and we're
planning on checking out the Ordinary as well.  I'm sure
I'll have a massive post about all of it once we return.