This is where I wish I was. Sort of.

But I am really excited about my Chinese; I've been meeting very regularly with my Taiwanese friend who is helping me practice. It is still frustrating that I have good Chinese days and bad days, but I have bitten the bullet and signed up for a Chinese class for next semester. At least, I think I added it. I'm a little fuzzy on how the just the facts works, since we don't use it for law school courses, and consequently I haven't messed with it in several years.

Anyway, despite all indications that my life is heading in a different direction, I just can't give this part up yet. I'm taking a course on Chinese Business Transactions that's all about international businesses in China, and it really gets me excited. A young partner at one of the upstate firms I interviewed with was selling me this pipe dream that they were getting ready to add a small international business practice group to their Ithaca office, and they were really interested in my international background. Note, however, that they didn't give me an offer.

But if that happened, and I got a spot with them, I would happily settle in to stay in this area my entire life. Between Rob's great job - he just got a promotion, he loves the people he works with, and this has been his dream job since childhood - and what would be my dream job, and doing it out of the big city in the small vibrant town of Ithaca . . . it would be a package impossible to resist, despite the distance from my family.

But, note that I did describe it as a "pipe dream." I'm skeptical. But wouldn't it be nice?

Over the summer maybe I'll dig out some old textbooks and use them a little more in prep for the Chinese class.