Welcome to Nashville

I'm not sure when I first knew I wanted to live in Nashville, TN. It was probably about a year and a half ago when I realized that it would be easier to creep on my favorite country superstars from a crouched position in their backyard trees than from a seated position in front of my computer screen in Pennsylvania.

So here I am, a year and a half later, sitting in the coolest Starbucks I've ever seen, watching a woman in the corner who I could swear is Shania Twain. I keep telling myself that of course it's not her. First of all, this particular Starbucks is about 15 minutes outside of Nashville (why would she be here?), and secondly, I would never be so lucky as to see someone famous my first week here. I just don't have good luck with this type of thing.

And speaking of not having good luck...

Earlier today I ventured into Nashville for the first time. I will admit that I was more than a little excited to see "The Music City". My goal for this trip was just to get to a Starbucks that I could sit down at to do some job searching. Now, I'm not a city girl and so I'm not accustomed to having to pay a small fortune to park in a garage just to get to the coffee shop on the corner. It's for this reason that I passed the few that I saw on my way to the Starbucks in hopes of finding an available meter spot on the street. My hopes met reality as a car pulled out of a spot just around the corner! I was so delighted and snagged the spot. I got some change out of my wallet and proceeded to the meter where I was appalled to read that a quarter only gave you 10 minutes! Realizing that this was the best I would find (the garage was $3 for the first half hour!), I reluctantly dropped in 4 quarters and some dimes. I was only up to 48 minutes, so I got out 2 more quarters and dropped them in, but to my horror, the meter had a 1 hour limit, wasting my last quarter! The reality of the situation hit me: I just spent almost $2 to sit at a Starbucks for an hour. Now this, this is the kind of luck I have. Welcome to Nashville.