Attack of the Cancerian Nature!

I had every intention of making my next posts a two part series of top ten lists: one of things I miss about New Jersey, another of things I love about Virginia. However, somewhere between arriving at the playhouse for tonight's performance, and unlocking my apartment door, I was pounced upon by an acute case of homesickness that went something like this:
(1) Liz is super jazzed about being here and learning stuff and awesome people and LIFE
(2) Liz is slowly overwhelmed with information and a day of forgetting stuff and being tired
(3) Liz is sad and kind of homesick and it is probably all due to sleepiness and trepidation about the work load that lies ahead but damnit, it is unpleasant and needs to go away!

And thus, it spirals and now I am sitting here eating potato chips, needing a shower, wanting to read every possible thing at once and trying really hard not to cry, which is something I am kind of proud of myself for not having done once yet.

My strange and wide variety of interests has lead me to the area of astrology and I know my sun, sparkling up there in the heavens of Cancer, has a tendancy to cause me to be a home and hearth kind of person. I hate not being comfortable. I hate not having my family (biological and otherwise) around. I hate anything unfamilliar and unknown. I don't really consider myself an adventurous person, though I tend to do ridiculous things that I am almost always thankful I did in the long run. Hopefully this experience falls into the majority.

I am trying to reassure myself that this sick-in-a-daze-close-to-tears grossness will pass by as quickly as it came, and once the work starts and I get my bearings, everything will be peachy keen.

The really good thing is the awesome folks I've met. That helps a lot.
So, if you're reading, and you're awesome, thanks for being so awesome.