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Jul. 6th, 2010 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThere'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.
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.
