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

Bay Area

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Sorry I've been offline the last few days. I've been studying. Anyhow, offer of my garage still stands. It's not a fantastic place to live but it's better than a box under a bridge (marginally) and I am a decent cook and my work situation is fairly stable. Also the garage is detached from the house so it has some autonomy from my insane ranting and babbling. (The downside of this is that you have to go outside to come into the house to use the bathroom and such)

I could take some photos for you if you like. Also clean so that there's much more room. You'd be limited to wi-fi for net access though. I think we have some spare cards if your machine doesn't have one.

Anyhow... Offer's there if you need it.

Re: Bay Area

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Also, my house is about a 10 minute walk from the Caltrains line which goes straight to San Francisco. Also, there's an old beater motorcycle in the garage that I'm supposedly trying to get running, plus my partner's bicycle which are available for use. (I'm riding mine daily) We've been talking about getting her a new and lighter bike anyhow and this would be a good excuse. (It's a lead frame, I think) anyhow, Caltrains and most of the buses and stuff let you take bikes on board so you can get pretty-much anywhere that way. San Jose is very flat, San Fran is very not-flat.

Re: Bay Area

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to ask if the offer is still there. More in e-mail.