Week 10 starts tomorrow: Is the honey moon over?

Wow, Nine weeks down of the rest of my post MBA career and ...I don't really know what to say or how I feel. 
Right now I know the following,
The Good:
I like my job.  I love my boss.  I love the people I work with. 
The Opportunities(this is the MBA way of saying The Bad...sounds better doesn't it LOL):
I need a better personal life.  I'm not feeling the twin cities. 

Although I have to be fair, I haven't really been here all that much.  Since I moved here mid June, I have been to New York City twice, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, and Bloomington,IN.  I also booked a ticket to Chicago this past Friday for this coming weekend and I leave for LA to attend National Black a week from this coming Tuesday. 

So have I given the Twin Cities a fair chance????.....probably not.  I haven't really been here, and when I am here, like this weekend, I'm kinda like ...this sucks.  I'm just being honest people, these are my feelings so don't take it personal.

Now the reason it sucks for me is three fold:
1. My best friends, the people I would love to be around all the time, live all over the world.  Yes. Two of my closest friends currently live overseas.  One in Ethiopia and the other in Iraq.  The rest of my friends live in various places in the US.  If I could just move them all here, that would be great.  But that is not happening.  SIGH 
2.  I don't know that many people here and I'm not close to the people I know here like I am with "my peoples" who I have been friends with since K-12 and undergrad.  So I feel disconnected, which is a sucky feeling.
3.  My dating/romantic life is currently non-existent.  There is not anyone I'm interested in and as far as I know, there is not a man interested in me.  Sorry Mom, no prospects for that Son in Law you keep bringing up.  Dating is difficult everywhere so I don't think I can blame the Twin Cities but other people do so...well I will hold off on jumping on that bandwagon until I'm actually here for more than two weeks straight.

Over arching these three points is the fact that I'm an extrovert.  I love being around my friends and family.  When I am here in MSP, I often find myself by myself and I don't really like it.  Don't get me wrong, I value ME Time, but how much me time does a person need???  

I can't blame all this on the Twin Cities....If the Twin Cities were a person and read the above, I imagine the reply would be," Sounds like a personal problem to me."  LOL

I will say it's hard to make friends here.  People tend to stick to their small crew that they probably grew up with and they are not trying to make new friends.  Then there is a population of transplants that kinda become cliquish as well.  I'm not a clique type of person so I'm having a bit of an internal struggle finding my way.  I just want to hop a flight every Friday at this point.  But running away from the problem is not going to fix it. 

Okay Enough belly aching....what is FARE going to do to solve this problem?
Well first, I am going to slow down the travel after November.  I'm going to actually try to stay here and put in the work to make this place home. 
Second, I'm going to pamper myself and love on myself even more.  This way I won't feel so neglected and forgotten about. 
That's where I'm going to start.  Moving out of corporate housing and into my apartment will help as well.  Boy is it going suck to pay rent though LOL. 

To all my 2010 MBA's who just moved to a new city and started working...How are you coping?  What are you doing to adjust? I would love to hear from you.

Love,
FARE