If you need me, I’ll be under this pile of cardboard

[bodlon]

I've been quiet over here for much longer than I intended. For those of you wondering where I am and what's going on, the short version is that 2013 is turning out to be sort of a big year for major life changes.

For one thing, my roommate and I got shot at a couple of months ago. That was exciting.

Not in a directed way, fortunately. Mostly we stepped outside at just the wrong moment to find ourselves behind the shooter's actual target. Still, that's the kind of moment that changes one's perspective about life. Intended targets or not, that could have been it.

Since then, we've been in the process of finding a different place and way of living. That's meant relocating my mother (and two 26' trucks full of her stuff) and deciding what to do about our own household. We're pretty sure we've got all of that figured out at this point, but spending a couple of months flailing around and dealing with multi-household logistics is exhausting.

Seriously. I'm sick of moving and I haven't even started moving my own stuff yet.

On the whole, I'm feeling mostly optimistic. There's still a lot of stress and exhaustion happening. There are some things that won't be sure or settled for a while. On some levels, that's marvelously liberating. In other ways...well, that "unspecified doom" feeling can mean many things.

It's been good for my creativity, albeit in a terribly erratic way. I'm making things in bursts in various media. I'm collaborating on a secret thing I can't discuss yet. I'm getting rid of a lot of things while being smug enough not to be an Annoying Rich Internet Minimalist. I'm re-learning that I'm allowed to be comfortable (though, importantly, not entitled).

So yeah. It's a thing. You'll probably hear more from me as things settle down. It's just been a week and I felt like I really need to start putting thoughts here again.

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Comments

[pauamma]

To borrow a line from a friend of mine, getting shot at isn't a valid lifestyle choice. :-)