Happiness

I know everyone who read the last couple of blogs can guess that I've been having kind of a hard time.
well, since I arrived at Berkeley in January 2002, It's been a struggle and the last 9 months, everything accumulated and I wasn't sleeping anymore, I wasn't eating right anymore, I couldn't really smile without crying. I wasn't me anymore and I was just sinking in despair. Despair, it has a funny way of just shredding you to pieces.

Now, I feel with this new job, I am able to breathe again. I feel as though the foot that has been stepping on my throat has been shoved away.

The best part about my new job besides the swanky "Account Manager" title, the nearly 6000 dollars more a year pay raise, the full benefits that I will be receiving, plus the fact that they have everything ready for me to apply for my H-1 visa, is that it's only 1.14 miles from my house.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, "the crazy driving weaving in and out of traffic days are over". And thank god too, my car is getting way too old for that.

I honestly don't remember ever feeling this happy. I don't. I feel as though I've been sitting in the sewer and suddenly, someone has dug a hole in the top and the sun just shone down on me. I have alot of climbing to do before I can get out of the sewer. But I'll be damned, if the sunshine doesn't feel good.

I'd also like to thank my friends and my family for their support and prayers and assistance, and Andrea, Linnea, Gail, Medina, Marissa, Boo* and Susannah* (names with * has been changed for their own protection) for making this possible. And most of all, I'd like to thank Karma for finally coming through.

I have to jump over another hurdle today before it will all be finally history. Please Wish me luck. I might need it.