I know that it’s been a really long time before I’ve written anything, but I have two good excuses!

So, the first one is that we went to a West Coast tour with my husband and my in-laws who came from Istanbul to visit us. It was a ten-day road trip, and I had very little access to my computer, and that’s why I couldn’t post anything. 

The second excuse is more exciting! We’re moving to Dubai!

My husband got a job offer there —I would have written about it sooner but he recently gave in his two-week-notice to his old firm and I couldn’t talk about it before then. Our flight is on March 18th. We’ll first go to Istanbul to visit friends and family, and then off to Dubai on March 31st.

For the last two weeks, we’ve been trying to enjoy Manhattan, going to the places we’ve always wanted but couldn’t, saying goodbyes and of course doing some major packing. The moving company is packing our stuff right now, as I’m writing this entry!

For me, the job hunting will start all over again in Dubai. It will hopefully be easier to find a job there, since the market seems less competitive than NY. We’ll see :)

It’s always sad to be leaving, but also very very exciting. A flight from Dubai to Istanbul lasts 4 hours which is 6 hours less than a flight from NY, and the time difference also drops to 2 hours from 7 —which is great :)

The upcoming posts will hopefully be about the California trip!

I don’t talk about myself much, but if you follow my posts you can at least get some idea about my likes and dislikes. However, for what I’m about to explain, I’ll have to give you guys more information. (Wow, it sounded like I have thousands of followers who are actually interested in what I’m about to write!!)

Anyways, so I’m doing Masters in Economics, I’m married and we live in Manhattan (right on Wall street, as you might have realized from my numerous Occupy Wall St. posts). I’m graduating this December and my husband is a financial consultant, whose name is Eren by the way, but I’ll keep him calling the husband —just because I like it. We were planning on moving to Dubai this January (since my husband was going to be transferred to the Dubai office), but couple of weeks ago it turned out that we couldn’t, because the HR decided that they don’t want to go through with the transfer. Long story short, it seems like we’ll be staying here. 

Now, I started to apply for jobs in NY, but since we just found out about all of these changes in our plans, there wasn’t enough time for us to adapt. That’s what the last few weeks have been for us —it was full of depressive long talks about our future and basically what the hell we were going to do. Finally yesterday, I was able to pull myself together and wrote a cover letter. (It was probably just because I wanted to write something using my new MacBook —which is another story because I ordered it 2 weeks ago only to actually receive it this Saturday. In other words, by the time I ordered my MacBook and received it, Steve Jobs died.)

Then today I suddenly realized that applying to jobs was the easiest part and now comes the interviews (hopefully). This unfortunate realization happened when my phone rang this morning and I felt so panicky that I waited for it to go to voicemail just to postpone thinking to say anything if the call was about a job I applied. Turned out it wasn’t, but still :)

In a way, choosing to do a masters might be my postponing this whole job hunting process for 1.5 years! Oh, no. It was actually to come to NY to be with my husband. Hmm, now I don’t know if I should have written that. I guess I should just say that I LOVE Economics, so that’s why.

Procrastination is one of the few fancy words I love in English. Well, even writing this now makes me postpone more job hunting and/or reading tons of articles for school.

So in order to tie everything I’ve just written together:

I’d rather be at the beach.