Back on the east coast

I'm still processing everything, even though it was a quick trip. I had very positive closure with my former roommate, had a highly enjoyable evening of dinner and an exceedingly unique movie with evannichols and snottygrrl, and the absolute highlight was two full days nonstop chatting with my friend Jen who I worked with at Portland Opera. She, like me, is taking some time living with her parents (she's in Salem) and it was simly two days of stress-free bliss. I went a bit nuts at the "Made in Portland" store at the airport in the wee early morning that I was there, getting a fridge magnet and also a cling sticker of a common Oregon love image:


I'm now rethinking the grad school option, not that I'm unconsidering it, but also thinking of perhaps getting trained to teach English abroad, or even focusing more on the San Jose online MLIS program and doing it from Portland, but this time up in the northwest, not the southeast where I was before.

Anyway, it's a lot of fodder. I cried. I miss the northwest like crazy, and I may well bag the computer science class to find a second job so I can seriously save up some money. Jen and I want to travel to Ireland as well. ♥

I did glance over LJ, but if I missed something major, let me know. I'm glad to be back with you all.

No NaNoWriMo but…

… I've decided to try picowrimo. In chatting with evannichols and snottygrrl during my whirlwind Portland trip and original fic and m/m stuff, while I am continuing to work on my original novel, I think it could be good for me to revisit another original story that's a bit more lighthearted and I could plan to write 10,000 words on it in November. That seems totally reasonable to me. So here's my first ever little wordmeter! I'm not starting out from scratch since I started on this back in winter of '08, but I've not worked on it since then.



So for those who are on my Ilthanon filter, I'll hopefully still be posting, but I may take a month off to write something totally different.