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So, I've made a MLD... or "major life decision" as mum likes to call it.
I've accepted the job with the newspaper in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and will be moving there on July 8.
I'm looking forward to this new experience, because it opens up new doors for me. New opportunities to learn new things. Like skiing and snowboarding, for example.
I'm not too torn up over it, because I had the choice of accepting this job, or of rejecting it since I had been invited to fly out to Gaithersburg, Maryland, for an interview the following week. I could have waited and hoped for an offer from there, which would have meant I could move back to the DC area.
But when I was in Colorado a few days ago and got the offer, I thought long and hard about it. And I realized that my gut was telling me it's not time yet for me to return to DC. Returning to DC would just be returning to the SOS - Same Old Shit - that I've been through before. While I have a couple friends there who I love dearly, I'm not that excited about being around a passel of other people I'm not that crazy about. What's more, I know DC, and I've already lived there and experienced what it has to offer. While it'll be nice to live in DC again, since I do like that city, I'm still young and have so much freedom to see different parts of the world and to explore new places.
So, I decided to take full advantage of my youth and freedom... In gorgeous Ski Town, U.S.A., in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. It'll be one long vacation for me, in a real live resort town!
Watch me become a ski bum and tree-hugger extraordinaire! ;-)
At least I can thank the Powers That Be for the existence of VP (videophone). Dudes and dudettes, hit me up, so I can get some ASL practice in! That's right. ASL practice. There's a dearth of deafies in S.S., so contribute your part to the effort of keeping my ASL from becoming too rusty!
I've accepted the job with the newspaper in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and will be moving there on July 8.
I'm looking forward to this new experience, because it opens up new doors for me. New opportunities to learn new things. Like skiing and snowboarding, for example.
I'm not too torn up over it, because I had the choice of accepting this job, or of rejecting it since I had been invited to fly out to Gaithersburg, Maryland, for an interview the following week. I could have waited and hoped for an offer from there, which would have meant I could move back to the DC area.
But when I was in Colorado a few days ago and got the offer, I thought long and hard about it. And I realized that my gut was telling me it's not time yet for me to return to DC. Returning to DC would just be returning to the SOS - Same Old Shit - that I've been through before. While I have a couple friends there who I love dearly, I'm not that excited about being around a passel of other people I'm not that crazy about. What's more, I know DC, and I've already lived there and experienced what it has to offer. While it'll be nice to live in DC again, since I do like that city, I'm still young and have so much freedom to see different parts of the world and to explore new places.
So, I decided to take full advantage of my youth and freedom... In gorgeous Ski Town, U.S.A., in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. It'll be one long vacation for me, in a real live resort town!
Watch me become a ski bum and tree-hugger extraordinaire! ;-)
At least I can thank the Powers That Be for the existence of VP (videophone). Dudes and dudettes, hit me up, so I can get some ASL practice in! That's right. ASL practice. There's a dearth of deafies in S.S., so contribute your part to the effort of keeping my ASL from becoming too rusty!