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The guy who was going to buy Igor never showed up, as I noted. I have two people interested. Hopefully one of them will come this weekend with a trailer from Joliet. Wish me luck.

Yesterday, I met my grandparents at my parents' house a little after eight in the morning. Grandpa and I drove off to the Baraboo area while my parents spent the day with my grandmother.

Grandpa and I had a nice long drive together and talked about all sorts of stuff. We stopped at the Mousehouse Cheeshaus just north of Madison where I got little presents for myself and for moiracoon. We made it to the Forevertron and spent a while walking around and taking pictures. We talked to Eleanor, the sculptor's ex-wife and fellow artist, for a while too. She's helping him get around these day since he has some mobility issues. She seems like a neat person. I need to email her some info about filk and steampunk music.

Grandpa and I stopped at a little diner for breakfast-for-lunch on the way home and made it back to Kenosha uneventfully. I was tired and let him drive from Seven Mile Road back to Kenosha. I'd had a long night the day before. And the day wasn't done yet; after getting clothes and stuff together, I got in my car and drove down to Roger's Park to spend the night with friends there. The plan is going back there after work to go do stuff with them, then back to Kenosha. I guess I drove about 350 miles yesterday. Which doesn't seem like all that much, except I was getting pretty worn out by the end of it.

I'd been up late the day before because I met posicat and Mallory in Kenosha, then drove up to Racine for a sort-of July 4th party/get-together. I think we all had a really nice time there seeing Dwarf, foreignlegion, and Ray.

I have a lot more to write about today, but that'll be another post. I hope you all had a good Fourth of July weekend.

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There's a hell of a lot of change happening in my life these days. I've been in flux for a few months on a bunch of stuff. A lot of what I've written hasn't had much personal depth because I haven't known what to say.

Moira and I decided, as we moved out of the house in Kenosha, to spend some time living separately. With her being unemployed for quite a few months and me working at home, we were together all the time and that was a bit much. We've been trying to decide how we want to proceed from here for some time.

As we've talked, we've concluded that we don't have the sort of goals in common that would make living together make sense. What we're going to do instead is keep living separately, and seeing each other on a regular basis like we have been. We're going to be a married couple who date (because we are staying married). She's going to live in Racine. Maybe move to a one-bedroom apartment. I dunno; that's up to her.

Me, I've been living upstairs at my parents' house for the last month or two. It's nice being around my family; I love and care for them a lot. I'm glad to see them as much as I do. At the same time, there's a certain lack of privacy that comes from sleeping in a room with no door that my brother has to go through to get to his room and that another person (a guy about my youngest brother's age who my parents have unofficially adopted) has a room on the other side of. I'm getting a little tired, too, of sleeping on an air mattress on the floor because my nice queen size loft bed that I was so excited about buying doesn't fit.

So, I'm looking at moving to Rogers Park. A friend of a friend has a room in an apartment there that he's looking to rent out. I've wanted to live in Chicago for a long time, and I think this would be a great opportunity for me to try it out. I'd be very near the CTA and could really get about anywhere in the city. I'd have a great deal of money that I could put aside for school.

That's my current goal. Work at my current job long enough to set aside a bunch of money to go to school with. I hate this job, and I've been worried for more than a year (ever since the last big merge) that I'm going to lose it anyway (though that seems to be paranoia, at least so far), but if I can put away the kind of money I think I'll be able to, I'll have a lot of motivation to stick it out here for a while. I have no degree. I don't even have many credit hours. I'd do a hell of a lot better in school if I had another chance at it, so I intend to give myself one. I want to go into cultural anthropology. I'll never have all the experiences I want to have in one lifetime, so I want to learn more about the way other people live and have those experiences vicariously.

I'm toying with the idea, too, of moving in with my brother No-LJ-James if/when he transfers schools from Lansing, MI to Madison, WI. I think I'd have a hell of a good time living with him. But that's nebulous at the moment. For now, I guess that's about it. I don't know when exactly the move to Chicago may or will happen, but I'll let you all know.

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*sighs* I'd really like to go to the MFF picnic/softball game this year, but it's on the 17th. That is, of course, the same day that a friend who is usually a couple thousand miles plus an ocean away is having a party while he's in the states. I'm going to go to his party since I've missed the last few opportunities to see him. But I just want to express frustration that everything happens at the same time.

Secondly, having put over five hundred miles (I'll have to look at my little booklet in the glove box and see the exact number) on my new little car, I think that the wheel bearing situation is probably alright. I think I'm going to go ahead and request that week off and take the Michigan trip I want to take. I'll figure out the exact week and notify the appropriate folks via email as plans form more fully.

Michigan people; if you see this and and want to get together, please let me know. I'm already in touch with my brother in Lansing and red_ceilidh. I emailed a few people, but sometimes I think my email doesn't work right. I hate computers.

I need to get the hell away from everything for a while; I think it'll be good for me!