Jensen’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts and I blinked up at him across the table. He was down in the city from Boston, and we had joined Max and Bennett for a late lunch at Le Bernardin.

“Just wondering how things are going for Hanna,” I said. “She’s giving her job talk right now.” I tilted my wrist, looking at my watch, and corrected, “No, she finished about an hour ago.” Picking up my phone, I registered that she hadn’t even texted to let me know she’d landed safely.

“What did she say?” Bennett asked, misinterpreting my attention to my phone.

“Oh, just...” I waved him off, shaking my head. “No updates yet. I’m sure it went great.”

“I’m sure they’re already begging her to accept an offer,” Max said, smiling reassuringly. Out of the three of them, he watched me the most closely today, having heard both Hanna and I occasionally ramble about the job hunt, the idea of moving, the idea of staying, what our lives might look like a few months down the road.

Max certainly didn’t want us to move, but he didn’t seem all that concerned about it, either. I really could do my job from anywhere, though some cities would be easier than others.

“She doesn’t believe me when I say the choice is going to be hers,” I told them.

“Well,” Jensen said, “where do you think she’ll end up?”

I shrugged. “I don’t actually know.”

“And when are you guys planning to move?” Bennett asked.

“Well, we may not be—”

Bennett waved me off. “I mean, when is she hoping to start? Wherever that may be.”

“Probably next fall. Though some schools seem to want her to start in the winter term.”

“Will,” Max said flatly. “The winter term? It’s October.”

I nodded, poking at my plate.

“It’s October,” he repeated, “and some places want her to start in January, and you don’t have a sense of where you might be going?”

“She hasn’t visited everywhere yet.” The explanation sounded lame even to my own ears, but it’s the one she gave me again and again.

My friends nodded as if it all made sense, and thankfully Jensen changed the subject, but I tuned out after a few bits of exchange regarding a merger of two large pharmaceutical companies.

Hanna and I had been so focused on the wedding and then the idea of her career beginning that we hadn’t actually discussed the how.

Everything felt too hectic, and the Let’s figure it out after the wedding motto had been an easy way to put off any actual decision making.

Here we were, married, in love, and on the verge of changing nearly everything about our day-to-day lives. And we still had no idea at all how it was going to look.