{"id":398,"date":"2006-05-16T18:08:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/05\/16\/state-of-my-life\/"},"modified":"2006-05-17T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T17:02:26","slug":"state-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/05\/16\/state-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"State of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t written anything beyond a superficial entry in entirely too long.\u00a0 The Frog’s<\/a> frequently thoughtful, reflective posts have inspired me to write one (or at least\u00a0attempt to).\u00a0 So this is it – a brief look into the state of my life at the moment.<\/p>\n

I can’t believe I graduated from law school almost two years ago and have been living and working in Los Angeles for a year and a half now.\u00a0 I realized recently that I’m growing comfortable in this city.\u00a0 It almost feels like home.\u00a0 I’ve made new friends, reconnected with old ones, made career connections and picked up a hobby.\u00a0 I have an actual apartment and not a dorm, a savings account comprised of more than student loans, a nice office with a great view.\u00a0 I feel more settled than I have in years, maybe ever.\u00a0 That restlessly itch to pack up and move somewhere, anywhere has passed and I can see myself here for a few more years.\u00a0 Maybe indefinitely.\u00a0 I’m sad but resigned to seeing my friends from northern California infrequently and my friends on the East Coast virtually not at all.\u00a0\u00a0It’s weird – this sense of complacency.\u00a0 I never imagined I’d feel it in this foreign city when I was an undergraduate at UCLA.\u00a0 But I do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, LA is still brutal in many respects.\u00a0 The hard water’s still drying out my hair.\u00a0 The smog still makes me break out.\u00a0 The air’s still drying out my eyes.\u00a0 The traffic still drives me crazy.\u00a0 I still feel fat here.\u00a0 But I’m adjusting.\u00a0 Filter for the shower.\u00a0 Different cleanser and moisturizer.\u00a0 Drops for my eyes.\u00a0 Music for the endless hours spent in my car.\u00a0 Acceptance that while I will never been super thin, I’m thin enough.<\/p>\n

There are definitely things I’d like to change about\u00a0the state of my life, but I don’t think that lingering feeling will ever really go away.\u00a0 I don’t think it does for anyone.\u00a0 On the whole, I’m good.\u00a0 Things are good.\u00a0 Thanks for asking.\u00a0 And for reading.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

(I didn’t mean this to be a smug post about how great my life is.\u00a0 There’s plenty that’s not great.\u00a0 I just wanted to take a moment to remind myself that overall, I’m happy.\u00a0 That overall, I shouldn’t let the\u00a0not so great things\u00a0get in the way of that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t written anything beyond a superficial entry in entirely too long.\u00a0 The Frog’s frequently thoughtful, reflective posts have inspired me to write one (or at least\u00a0attempt to).\u00a0 So this is it – a brief look into the state of my life at the moment. I can’t believe I graduated from law school almost two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-la","category-deep-and-not-so-deep-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}