academentia
(n): normal state of persons in academia,
marked by varying and progressive degrees;
irreversible deterioration of faculties of intellectuals
- Wickedary
Things are pretty strange at the moment - professionally, things are going very well. I have lots of good contacts here now, some good possible future options, including a couple of jobs overseas I am seriously considering applying for. Personally, things are not so great. I don't have a lot of friends here, so I feel quite isolated, and working long hours doesn't really help in the meeting of new friends. I also miss interaction and spending time with friends who are now geographically remote for various reasons. It's a difficult time and it makes me wish that I wasn't here a lot of the time, though I realise, for the wrong reasons. Maybe it's just that as you get older, its harder to start over again in a new place, especially if that new place is really an old place, one you don't have a lot of happy memories from?