Ok, this was posted on Facebook.

[atolnon]

This is the penultimate post on my Illinois move, which is done primarily to keep people in the loop. Those that are deeply interested, that is. I, uh, I'm not sure who that is, honestly.

Here's the preliminary logistics of the situation. I reported back to my manager that I expected to make a transition to the Hazelwood, MO office as of December 14th and because it's a drive across half the nation on the second week of December, I'm leaving on Thursday the 10th on an route that takes me through Salt Lake City. I don't think that Salt Lake is really a great town in the winter for travel, but it seems to me that there might be more towns on the route then the trip through Wyoming that I'd take if it were summer. Wyoming being the least populated state in the contiguous states. Google tells me that it'll take 1 day and 10 hours, which is an hour more then the 1 day 9 hours through scenic Wyoming. 18 hours in, I will probably learn to loath the decisions that I have made.

Because the office is in Hazelwood and I expect to live in Illinois, that means that instead of living with my father, I'll be staying with my good friend Frank. Frank is a capital fellow, and I don't say that because he's apt to be reading, because I think he has an allergy to online journals like every human being of sound body and mind. So, that's one reason. The others are that he lives 30 minutes closer to my job then my father does and, well, at what will be 26, I am not excited about the prospect of living with my dad again, even if he is a great guy and even if he is really easy to live with. So that's when you can expect me.

Personal feelings about this situation.
I'm torn about this move. If I was 100% sure that I could make it financially out here while I'm trying to go to school, I would probably stay. I could probably do it. This hasn't been an easy decision to make. And if I didn't have the people to come back to, I wouldn't have made it. That's what pushed the decision over. I have new and old friendships in the Puget Sound area that I greatly value, and I'm not happy to put this kind of distance between them, but I have substantially more in the St. Louis area, and it's not really possible for me to overlook that. In the end, I'm trying to make the best decision that I can. There's no 'what if' or 'could have been's to life that matter at all.

My feelings about the Seattle area are complicated. There are things that I love, many things, and there are things that I hold in disdain. It's a wealthy place full of beautiful scenery and cool shit, and I basically ended up living in Boringsburg, on the corner of Nobody Gives a Shit Dr., which is funny when you think of it, and I do pretty often. Since I'm here like I am, how I feel is that Seattle is a different place. It's within driving distance, but that's not really where I live. Bellevue might as well be Belleville considering what I do primarily with my spare time which is staying in, since my budget gets used up pretty frequently with the spare lifestyle that I currently have.

Comments

[drbuzzkill.livejournal.com]

I am deeply interested. If we were in the same room, I would be leaning forward and staring uncomfortably at you with eyes wide.

In all seriousness, the presence of which confuses me since I'm drunk, I would like to comment on how you are damned lucky that you can transfer back in here with the job you have. Damned lucky, but that's not a bad thing.

In closure, I am still drunk, and I would like to remind you that if you don't provide us with periodic updates while you are trekking across the county in December we will surely crucify you (gently) when you finally do make it in.

That is all. Be careful, you.

[atolnon.livejournal.com]

My connection to an updating type of thing is a fairly dubious prospect, really, if 'to update' in the current etymology refers primarily to net-based applications like it very well may.

There's always the noble cellphone, I guess.