I’m still discovering my new neighborhood of Kew Gardens, and I just saw my first movie at the Kew Gardens Theater, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

What a wonderful, wonderful film this was. I love Woody Allen’s romantic films (Hannah and Her Sisters, Match Point, and VCB) because each is an extended examination into the ways in which each of us satisfies each other and falls short in relationships. I’m sure the comparison has been made before, but Allen, I think, has studied the structure of Shakespearean comedy, and gives it to us without the happy ending (but usually, with a post-modern, dissatisfying one ;))

This film, for me, also, was a reminder that not every woman wants the frat-boy i-banker to live with. Some women are more complex than that - for which I should thank God Aspiring to something to which I disagreed has always made me feel uncomfortable and, in the end, has made me less happy.

Well, for several reasons, I think, it is time for me to be happy. It will hopefully be the pole-star by which I navigate the rest of my life.

I will go into my problems with my past jobs and work history, and use this blog as a ‘thinking place’ through which, hopefully, I can arrive someplace more suitable and agreeable to who I am.