It seems impossible that I've been here for five months. One semester is really not that much time in the life of an academic, but the nature of the experience has been more... well, just something more than usual. All I know for certain is that this is one of those passages of my life after which things will be weighed and measured on a new scale.
I sit writing this in a heuriger outside of Vienna after a long tramp through the vineyards. I thought this might be the time to say goodbye. My last day in the city proper (after spending all day tomorrow packing and at the library) will be too much of a whirlwind.
I cannot say what Austria or Vienna is, but I most definitely have an impression of what it is to me. In the end, it was a place I could spend time with myself, something that is more difficult to do than we think. Yes, it's been productive. Yes, it's been fun and I've made new (and lasting) friends. Yes, it's been painful too. And no, I am not ready to leave. And yes, I am ready to come home.
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