time for change

[egypturnash]

So here's the seriousness I hinted at yesterday, but substituted a joke about skiltaire bungholes for instead.

Ashy's moving out.

This means I'm moving out, too; I'd been failing to keep up my half of the rent (and this is part of why she's moving out) for much of this year, and there's no way I can do it by myself right now. Maybe if a union-rate Flash job dropped in my lap, but I'm not holding my breath.

I don't know where, yet. I need to ask a few people who might be willing to have me for a while, in LA and elsewhere, and see what the options are.

Elsewhere? Yeah. Ashy's moving back to the Bay Area. San Francisco, Silicon Valley, all that. A lot of my online friends and acquaintances are up there, enough to make life interesting. Just the night before kattything was making me drool with some talk in IM about how casually freak-friendly and compact SF is. And a little earlier I was thinking that it's weird that I live in LA but have this cluster of people I know well, and almost never see, up there. And that it's supposedly a lot more freak-friendly than LA. Ashy was suggesting that I might do well to move up there myself, though not necessarily to live with her again.

I'd let myself see how tired I am of LA when there was a possibility of going to Canada for some Spümcø stuff, and I had to kinda put that away when that fell through. It's often fashionable to hate LA, but I don't think I ever have - it's just boring and ugly and not-green, and rather tedious to get around without a car. The only reason I ever came here was my "career", which I put in quotes for a reason. And what's a little more change at this point?

I'll miss her.

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a logical move to me. From what I've seen in the job markets between both cities, there's as good a chance of getting art/animation work in the Bay Area as there is here in Los Angeles. (Though I suspect that a lot of it will be Flash work, and you've said things to me in the past suggesting you'd rather avoid that.) And at least you'll have the chance to see Ashy on an occasional basis if you go.

Whatever you choose, I wish you the best of luck.